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

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:27 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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)?

For the moment, yes (ish).  But we're working on this.