[ltp] T42p and open source hardware accelerated OpenGL = SUCCESS

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/21/05, Jens Mayer <mail@jensmayer.de> wrote:
> * On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:20, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
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> >       I'll report back my results later... so far, very impressive!
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> Just a quick question: Do things like Xorg's composite extension work wit=
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> this driver, too? Does the driver support the render extension? I'm askin=
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> because one of the main features I miss with the stable open source drive=
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> is the decent eyecandy of window-shadows and translucency. ;-)
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you can try the xglx server or xfake on top of the xorg server to play
with fast composite and render.  The radeon will soon have exa support
(the new X accel arch) that will speed up render accel.  there's a
patch floating around, but it's not yet been applied to cvs.

Alex

> Regards,
> Jens
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