On Son, 2002-11-03 at 21:05, Kacper Wysocki wrote: > > > Fortunately, I can't do that comparison here, but it's pretty fast, > > even > > with a window that covers the whole screen. Does the lack of perfect > > smoothness bother you? Note that the window manager can make a huge > > difference there, e.g. sawfish was much worse than metacity here. > Perfection has always been my demand. I use openbox; I've tried other > wm's, including metacity, and I get the same results. still, I'd expect > smooth window refresh from such a hefty peice of software as XF86..? > I've seen quite a number of other people complain about this as well.
Yes, it comes up over and over, the bottom line is that it's not as easy as those people think it is. > In fact, a friend of mine who owns an older radeon says he's got great > 3d accel but no 2d accel, The radeon driver had limited 2D acceleration with DRI enabled up to 4.2.0. This has been remedied in CVS, it now offers even faster 2D acceleration on top of the 3D acceleration. > and wishes for a window manager that uses pure glx. Sounds like he wants e17. > the lack of dri in dualhead and the fact that you have to restart X to > change the dualhead setup seriously hampers things, as you can imagine. Would running two servers be an option for you, one with DRI enabled and the other with dualhead? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
