which x server fully accelerate the Composite extension

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 11:17:31 PDT 2005


On 5/28/02, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes <cerdiogenes at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> some time ago I received this from keith packard:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:56 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes
> wrote:
> 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 'diopter' is very slow when compared with other magnifier solutions,
> >> like gnome-mag. There is any explain for it?
> >
> >
> 
> Yes, you have to have an X server which fully accelerates the Composite
> extension and ARGB visuals. Only a very few X servers can do this, the
> X.org default server not being one of those. With this in place, the
> magnifier can update the screen plenty fast.
> 
> -keith
> 
> 
> So, my question is, what X server fully accelerates the Composite
> extension and ARGB visual?

No X server FULLY accelerates render, but the following attempt to:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus
You also may want to look at the kdrive servers in xserver cvs.

Alex

> 
> Thanks,
> Carlos.



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