[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>>I asked this before and didn't get an answer.
>>>Why do we need xfx, Shouldn't using X11 get the acceleration
>>>from the tiff driver?
>>>
>>Because xfx provides very nice hardware scaling, stretching, and filtering, 
>>all using the voodoo hardware instead of some program, which yields fast 
>>results, and it's pretty too.
>>
> and all those features are not part of a generic API (like
> X11). so the only way to access tehm is via the xfx and
> svgafx driver.

So is it purely for voodoo, or can it use the hardware scaling
features of other cards (e.g. Matrox) too ?

I find that scaling (2x) on the x11 driver seems to take up
quite abit fo cpu.

-kt

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