[ltp] Re: Eye candy on a T40p

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/28/05, Nick Dutton <nick@winchmore.com> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
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> 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?)
> >>
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> 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 th=
e
> 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.
>=20
> 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...
>=20

you can watch xorg cvs commits here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-commit

Alex

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>  Nick
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