On Friday 19 January 2007 09:17, Jan Stępień wrote:
> >
> > Or you can start a second X with xinit. So you would have one
> > desktop (on F7)
> > with Xgl and one (F8) with 'normal' X.
>
> This method sounds interesting, but I have some doubts. Won't two
> separate X servers be too big challenge for my box? I've got an Athlon
> XP 3000+ (working at 2167 MHz) plus a GB of RAM. Having Xgl loaded in
> the background could be deadly for performance in OpenGL apps on Xorg.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
I use a script called xlaunch:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-483004-highlight-xlaunch.html

I run it on my laptop and have absolutely no problems, the xserver alone won't 
kill your performance.

- Noven
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