Xgl server

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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:

> 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:
> > http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99drn/pics/xgl-shot.png
> > 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
> > 
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