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

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:32 -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> Just for the record, I'm liking this line of conversation. There's so
> many acronyms and buzzwords flying around that they're hard to keep
> track of. Perhaps I need to join an X Dev mailing list for tips, but
> it'd be nice to hear about some performance tips that the average joe
> can try out. I have two <10 year old cards to experiment with (ATI
> Radeon 7500 and NVidia GeForce 5500). I'm using Breezy now and the
> binary drivers only seem to work occasionally right now, but I can't
> say I've specifically tried "Composite with xcompmgr -a" (usually I
> throw a drop shadown on for good measure), and I have no idea how to
> turn on or enable EXA, although the articles I've read about it look
> interesting.

Unfortunately, EXA is only available in X.Org HEAD/6.9/7.0, and will
thus not be in breezy.  Depending on how much spare time I have, I might
put some packages up on p.u.c.