Keith Packard <[email protected]> writes: > Frankly, the lack of off-screen pixmaps is probably the principle reason > XAA is faster than EXA for so many chips -- modern desktop apps > generally draw everything off-screen then blt on-screen (and this is > always true with Composite), so you're getting pure CPU rendering > instead of an ugly mixture of CPU and GPU rendering.
Yes, it is the reason. Before offscreens were turned off, the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps was a well-known "unbreak me" option that people had to set to avoid rendering in the framebuffer. Soren _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
