On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:22 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > GhePeU wrote: > > > And, secondly, do AIGLX or XGL work on such cards? > > The r300 driver works very well with XGL. I have an X700 mobility, and > XGL works *beautifully*. Just recently, I've started to get good results > ( ie no hard lockups ) with AIGLX - but with the new 'beryl' window > manager, which is Quinnstorm's fork of compiz. As Roland pointed out, > with only a 64 bit bus you're not going to get astounding performance, > so you might see some issues with heavy use of compiz effects, but then > again I don't think it will be all that bad. As a point of comparison, > I've been using compiz with AIGLX on an integrated Intel chip at work ( > in i845G ). It has no RAM of it's own, and can only see 'up to' 8MB of > system RAM! It works fine with AIGLX - it's actually quite impressive. > It's quite *unimpressive* with XGL - painfully slow. According this this > page: > http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/motherboards/article.php/10703_1141511__3 > the i845G has a 64-bit memory bus ( if I'm reading it correctly ). So > I'd say at least for compiz ( or beryl ) on AIGLX, your chosen Radeon > should be sufficient.
I'm afraid that's comparing apples and oranges. Integrated chipsets tend to be less affected by the current inefficiencies of the AIGLX GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap implementation, probably because moving stuff into and out of the framebuffer is cheaper than with discrete cards. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel