AIGLX and X11 forwarding

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 13:05 -0500, Dan Phung wrote:
> I've been trying to find the documentation for this, but have been  
> unsuccessful.  What does the "accelerated" portion of AIGLX entail?   
> In other words, what portions of the pipeline are accelerated  
> compared to normal GLX?  

AIGLX isn't anything else than 'normal' GLX, it just refers to a part of
our GLX implementation that reuses the *_dri.so 3D drivers originally
designed for direct rendering to accelerate indirect rendering as well.

> Also, do the acceleration features still hold when used over X-forwarding?

Yes.


Hope this helps,


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