where is xgl?

[Marco Cabizza]

On ven, 2005-08-05 at 09:21 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 8/5/05, Marco Cabizza <mc at newglobal.it> wrote:
> > Uhm ok, this may be a *dup* question then... what's going to handle
> > compositing on top of the xserver? Wasn't it the aim of xgl? It seemed
> > promising.
> > 
> > [I am asking here because I couldn't find lots of info's on the
> > internet]
> > 
> 
> xgl* is still in progress so it's not yet ready to be released as a
> stable product.

Ok, that's what I thought

> right now you can do composite on any server with the
> extension enabled.  it will be slow, but drivers will eventually get
> exa acceleration (improved accel module that speeds up render a lot)
> which will will help in the interim.  Sis already had support and a
> radeon and nv patch will be forthcoming soon.  You'd use an actual
> compositing manager like xcompmgr or a window manager with compositing
> support to handle the actual compositing.

It's ages since the Xgl page had its last update :)

Thank you

Marco