[Xorg] Chromium vs GLX protocol

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:05:59 -0400, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
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> On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:17, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > couldn't chromium be merged into xorg someday to provide multi-head
> > open GL in conjunction with dmx on the same box or different boxes?
> > Say you have two 3d cards each could be brought up as independant X
> > servers with their own instances of the DRI.  Then chromium and DMX
> > could provide the middle layer so that multi-card hw Open GL would
> > just work for a xinerama desktop.
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> Heh.  It won't be hardware-accelerated until we ditch GLcore for *_dri.so in
> the server.  DMX just uses whatever indirect rendering path the server
> provides.  There's a reason this is on my todo list ;)

That's glxproxy.  dmx plus chromium can use direct rendering as I recall.

Alex

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