Multiple X servers with DRI

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 21 02:12:00 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:31 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that for some parts of 2D acceleration is used 3D engine of hardware.
> This works only if DRI is successfully enabled (in the case of i810 driver, it's
> not checked in EXA and textured-video for availability of DRI.). 

That's not true. DRI does not have to be enabled, and if you are finding
it does, then I suspect it's a bug.

> However, does this mean that only one instance of accelerated X server can be 
> running in near future? (As DRI is unable to run in more than one instance.)

I'm not sure whether two instances has ever worked, and isn't something
that's routinely tested.

Alan.




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