[Xorg] Re: Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

[Alex Deucher]

--- Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> 
> Around 18 o'clock on May 17, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > For Xv that seems to involve working server side GL and using GL to
> > take Xv data (as a texture) and putting it to the video visible
> buffer.
> > I've been looking at exactly this for Voodoo2 although I'm still
> trying
> > to get the 3D init code right (its nasty stuff)
> 
> That's certainly one way of doing it.  The Matrox driver has direct 
> support for 'textured video', accessing the appropriate mechanisms
> from 
> the X server without going through the GL library.

unfortunately it doesn't keep state with the 3d driver so you get one
or the other: 3d or textured video.

Alex

> 
> -keith
> 
> 
>


	
		
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