[ltp] X.org X11R6.8 on t40p? (Radeon R250 / Radeon Mobility 9000)
Matthias Himber
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:50:30 +0200
The reason why XCOMPOSITE is disabled by default on X11R6.8 is that the
current driver architecture isn't well suited to accelerate XCOMPOSITE, thus
making the whole thing very slow. XOrg is planing to integrate a new driver
architecture into R6.9 (probably kdrive, but that's not decided yet AFAIK)
and enabling XCOMPOSITE by default then, but the current release ships with
XCOMPOSITE only so that programmers can start writing apps that use the API.
HTH,
Matthias