On Sat, 26 May 2007 21:29:52 +0100 Simon Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side point, would it be possible to run an accelerated X client > with the nvidia drivers? eg, have a standard X server, and the X > client uses the nvidia drivers - would that result in a hardware > accelerated session (given a fast enough network)? >
No, the hardware acceleration has to be on the X Server (the display) side. But the client side can take advantage of the server's hardware acceleration, even if the client doesn't have hardware of its own. The X-over-SSH2 link from my earlier email talks about running TuxRacer on a host w/out hardware acceleration, displayed over a network on a X Server that did have acceleration. There is a very noticeable framerate drop due to the network & compression/decompression & encryption/decryption overhead, but in the TuxRace example he does call it "playable". I dunno that I'd agree w/ that, unless you have both a really fast network & really fast processors on both the client & server. Conway S. Smith
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