On 3/28/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the moment it works, but xgl is slow with movies.
> I saw this sentence in the suse site:
>
> Driver has neither pBuffer nor FBO support. When using a composite
> manager all windows are rendered in software and only compositing is
> hardware accelerated. Astonishingly, this works well enough for most
> use cases.
>
> What does it mean? That is, is the driver _never_ going to have that support?

It will, just no yet. It's beeing developped on intel chipsets at the
moment and will probably be ported over at one point. I can't tell more
precisely.


As far as you know, does the ATI binary driver have FBO support?
I didn't try it, yet, but should I try, may I expect better performance?
TIA
--Luca


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