[ltp] Eye candy on a T40p

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/27/05, Nick Dutton <nick@winchmore.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?)
>=20

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

Alex

> TIA,
>=20
> --
>  Nick
>