Xglx (partial) success story

[Francesco Biscani]

Hi,

finally I was able to try Xglx and... wow! That is really amazing :)
I installed it on two machines. The first is a workstation which sports an ATI 
9700 Pro with ATI binary drivers, the second is a laptop with a Radeon IGP 
340M board. Both machines have Xorg 6.8.2 installed and both have correctly 
configured 3d hw acceleration (binary ATI and DRI respectively).

Some observation:
- Gnome runs ok, while KDE, QT apps, Mozilla and OpenOffice either exhibit 
artifacts or are pretty slow,
- resizing windows is quite slow in all situations,
- on the 9700 PRO performance is always excellent, i.e. also with shadows and 
transparencies moving windows around is always very smooth; the Radeon IGP on 
the laptop is quite slower, even if it beats all around plain xorg + 
composite and is able to show transparencies without taking performance hits.

I'm asking: is the IGP much slower because of the lack of pbuffer support or 
for some other reason? Or because the hw acceleration is not so good as ATI's 
binary drivers'?

I'm really impressed by what I've seen so far, congratulations for the good 
work! :)

  Francesco


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Dr. Francesco Biscani
Dipartimento di Astronomia
Università di Padova
biscani at pd.astro.it