Guy Zelck wrote: > > OS wrote: > > > I've asked about the RENDER and the xinerama extension myself. After > > posting to the Xpert mailing list I don't believe that the xinerama > > extension is supported by my chipset driver (ati). AFAIR we already told you that Xinerama is driver independent, i.e. it works with any driver. > > I just assumed that RENDER is not supported on the ati driver as well You are right there, 4.0.2 ati doesn't have it. The current CVS has, I'm not sure if it will be in 4.0.3 . In 4.1.0 for sure. > > (after all, hardly anything is !!! They had 3D acceleration in 3.3.6, but > > not in 4 - go figure !). While the DRI is a very different story than 2D support, there is in fact preliminary support in a branch of the DRI CVS. > After searching around I found that the RENDER extension is sth. build into > X that loads itself on startup without any entry in XF86Config. In fact, it's in the "extmod" module (like Xinerama, DGA, ...) which is loaded by any sane XF86Config. > In my /var/log/XFree.0.log I see that this extension is attempted to be > loaded but although no error follows I don't see it afterwards in the > 'xdpyinfo' output. > So it could be that it decides it can't be loaded if it realizes you use the > ati module. It's simply that 4.0.2 ati doesn't have the code to really initialize it. > Yes I too have an ati (expert@play). I think though XFree does some kind of > acceleration. I hoped that 4.0.2 would even be better than 4.0.1 ... It should be. RENDER doesn't add any acceleration per se, in fact only the mga driver has some acceleration for it at all, with the other drivers RENDER is software only yet. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
