x.org 7.0 & new world order

[Alex Deucher]

On 12/22/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 23:02 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:43:16AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:41 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > > ChangesSince68 hints at a few of these.  9200 has EXA support which should
> > > > give better performance for the Composited desktop case, non-rectangular
> > > > MergedFB support, and quite a few performance updates to the 2d and 3d
> > > > drivers, and probably some other stuff I'm not remembering.
> > >
> > > Talking about non-rectangular mergedfb support, how does it work ? Last
> > > time I tried, I had the "smaller" screen pan, which I find very bad,
> > > basically .makes it unuseable for me. Did we ever add a way to just mark
> > > the "unused" rectangle a no-go zone and be done with it ?
> >
> > This was fixed sometime after 6.8.2.
>
> Hrm... I'm fairly sure I tried with 6.8.99-something, but I'll give it
> another go.

panning is still the default.  you need to enable the non-rectangular
option.  check the source or the man page.

Alex

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> Ben.
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