[ltp] Re: Eye candy on a T40p

[Nick Dutton]

Hello Alex,

On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, you wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me if there's any chance of my T40p (ATI Fire GL 9000,
>> 64MB) ever being able to handle transparency and shadows.
>> 
>> As it's far too slow with the drivers that I've used so far, I was
>> wondering if this is due to my card's lack of grunt or inefficiencies
>> in the drivers.  (Or have I just been useless and missed something in
>> the set-up?)
>> 

AD> Until xgl (xserver based on openGL) and associated infrastructure is
AD> ready, a new 2d accel model called exa has been developed to
AD> accelerate render and hence things like composite.  Currently only the
AD> sis driver has exa support but there is a patch for radeon floating
AD> around that will be committed soon.  It's up to developers to add
AD> support for other chips, however, most are busy getting ready for the
AD> 6.9/7.0 release. An r200 card like yours will perform fine once the
AD> code is added.

Thanks for that.  It's exactly what I'm after, and I'll keep my eyes
open for progress.  Nice *not* be told to go out and buy nvidia, which
seems to be the stock response...

-- 
 Nick