On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:59:54AM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:27:13PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > Would I be correct in the assumption that the only accelerated path for xrender > > is the identity transform (1:1 scale)? all other transforms are done in > > software? (my initial tests here with xfree86 4.3.0 & nvidia's latest drivers > > (as of about a month ago) seem to indicate as much...) (and yes... my drivers > > are using acceleration... GL definitely is). ? > > No. About 99% of the drivers don't have any xrender acceleration. I think > only the mga driver does. Although looking furthur the sis has some, but > it seems disabled, and the vmware driver has it too. But that's it. > > I guess nvidia do some acceleration in their binary drivers though, as > you've probably found. But it's bad to assume other drivers have xrender > acceleration. > > I think the thing that's holding other drivers up in getting furthur xrender > acceleration is that there's no test suite to check that the driver is > doing the right thing. I think Keith Packard mentioned he had intern's > working on a test suite a while ago, but nothing has materialized as far > as I know.
And there is no documentation whatsoever on what to do. And Keith has been telling me each time i asked him that render was not yet ready and that i should wait. Last time was a year or so ago though, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
