On driver support (was: Re: Windows Vista hardware requirements)

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Daniel Stone">

> If you just get a basic EXA driver in there that accelerates region copies
> and solid fills, and run Composite with xcompmgr -a (basic server-side
> compositing, no transparency or drop shadows or anything crazy like that),
> that goes a long way to fixing performance problems, as you don't rely on
> round-tripping to clients to redraw.  It's really quite visually stunning.

So does COMPOSITE still kill 3D acceleration (with or without EXA)?

- Jeff

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