Fedora ATi driver performs much worse than the vanilla code

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:25:18 -0500,
  "Joshua C." <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I was testing the latest xf86-video-radeon with f11 and the latest
> xorg-x11-server. And to my surprise the fedora version performs much
> worse than the vanilla code here:

Have you tried using nomodeset? Recently that works much better than when
KMS is used.