[ltp] X.org X11R6.8 on t40p? (Radeon R250 / Radeon Mobility 9000)

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:50:30AM +0200, Matthias Himber wrote:
> 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.

Also because the API is likly to change.

- Steve