On Wednesday 04 May 2005 20:46, Hugh Fisher wrote: > Software-only rendering was discussed at a talk by Keith > Packard, long time X guru, at LinuxConf 2005 a fortnight > ago. He said it's just not workable anywhere outside the > PDA market. Modern GUIs spend a lot of time shuffling > pixmaps - windows, icons, etc - around, and without > hardware acceleration this is viewed as unacceptably slow > by the majority of desktop users. (As PDAs get bigger > screens, they'll go the same way.)
Yes, I was there. Keith doesn't know just how fast sw-shader is, apparently. Various discussions ensued after his talk, the upshot of which was, Keith wants a card as soon as it's available. Obviously, of all the people in the world, we is one of the first three we want to have a card. Keith's special request? He doesn't want us to do anything to prevent him from de-soldering the memory chips and soldering on some of his own. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
