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2008/6/18 Vincent Panel <yohonet@(protected)>:
> Hi
>
> For people who own intel graphic cards, an interesting news. First,
> the background : intel graphic card driver is using EXA by default
> which is supposed to be better, but in fact, is much slower than XAA.
> That's the reason why Mandriva patched the "system" (xorg.conf) so
> that XAA is used instead of EXA.
>
> Fedora 9 seems to include an enhanced version of the driver which
> makes EXA competitive once again with XAA in terms of performances.
> Would be nice to integrate those patches as well in Mandriva Cooker
> and then decide (based on QA and cookerians tests) if we switch to EXA
> or XAA by default.
>
> More information starting at comment #30 of this (intel) bug :
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389#c30
IIRC you need drm support in the kernel for TTM
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