<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> How to get this??? X.org 6.8.X or freedesktop xserver CVS??? On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:24 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> David, This is absolutely, stupendously wonderful! - Jim On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 01:03 +0100, David Reveman wrote: > I've been doing some work to get an X server running on top of > OpenGL/glitz and I've got something that works pretty well now. I stuck > the code into the "xserver" tree and './configure --enable-xglserver' > should compile the common xgl code along with an Xglx server that can > run on top of an existing X server with GLX. > > With a good OpenGL driver and some luck, you should be able to run most > applications on it. However, you should know that the Xglx server is > really simple, there's no real cursor and compared to the Xnest server, > Xglx must always run on top of all other windows as the back buffer is > used for pixmap memory. > > There's a screenshot from running a complete gnome desktop on top of > Xglx here: > <A HREF="http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99drn/pics/xgl-shot.png">http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99drn/pics/xgl-shot.png</A> > I was actually running Xglx on top of software mesa when I took that > screenshot. That's of course quite slow, but not completely unusable. :) > > A lot of operations are accelerated, some operations can be accelerated > better, some operations are not accelerated but can be accelerated and > some operations can never be accelerated. > > Here's a list of things that I think most importantly need some work: > > * Get the fb layer to operate on pixel data with scan-line order > bottom-to-top. This will make software fall-backs A LOT faster. As > keithp told me, all we really need to do is to use negative strides and > I'll give that a try within in a few days, hopefully that will work just > fine. > * Replace or improve the current xgl offscreen memory manager, it wastes > huge amounts of memory right now. > * Improve xrender text performance. > * Accelerate bitmap text. Performance of applications that use bitmap > text is terrible right now. :( > > The following things could also needs some work. They are probably not > as important but they would be interesting and fun to get working: > > * Hook up glitz's convolution filters. This should be really easy, all > we need is a software fall-back. > * GLX and accelerated indirect rendering. > * Add Xagl and Xwgl servers. > * Add a miniglx or mesa-solo server. > > Have fun playing with it. If you find any bugs (and you will), please > let me know. > > -David > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > <A HREF="mailto:xorg@freedesktop.org">xorg@freedesktop.org</A> > <A HREF="http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</A> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <A HREF="mailto:xorg@freedesktop.org">xorg@freedesktop.org</A> <A HREF="http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>