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On Thursday 18 January 2007 23:47, Jan Stępień wrote: |
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> On 18 Sty, 19:50, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" |
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> <volker.armin.hemm...@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > nope. It isn't. |
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> > Xgl and direct rendering are exclusive. One or the other. |
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> Pity. That would be lovely. |
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> > Yes. |
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> > Or you can start a second X with xinit. So you would have one |
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> > desktop (on F7) |
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> > with Xgl and one (F8) with 'normal' X. |
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> This method sounds interesting, but I have some doubts. Won't two |
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> separate X servers be too big challenge for my box? I've got an Athlon |
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> XP 3000+ (working at 2167 MHz) plus a GB of RAM. Having Xgl loaded in |
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> the background could be deadly for performance in OpenGL apps on Xorg. |
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> Please correct me if I'm wrong. |
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well, I played ut2004 on my amd64 3200+/gf6600. One instance of Xgl one with |
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naked X (and a xterm). Worked well enough. |
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> > Any reason, you are using Xgl? No Aiglx with your card? |
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> Actually, I haven't though about it. I've got an ATI Radeon 9600XT |
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> running on proprietary drivers (emerged ati-drivers). It works fine, as |
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> long as you can tell that Radeon works fine on Linux; I haven't got any |
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> experience with NVidia's hardware. Returning to the topic, I haven't got |
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> an idea neither whether Aiglx works with my Radeon nor why I'm not using |
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> Aiglx. When I've started to play with fancy 3D servers I was using |
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> Debian, and I found an article describing quite precisely how to get Xgl |
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> running on unstable Debian. Worked fine, so I've found Xgl a nice |
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> choice. Am I mistaken? |
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I don't know which drivers support AIGLX, but with aiglx (or nvidia), you can |
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go from eye-candy-to-fast-to-eye-candy with two mouseclicks. (start |
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beryl-manager, choose beryl from the menu for eye candy or your other wm, for |
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speed). |
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