On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:37:44AM +1100, kingsley wrote:
> [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.
>
xfx is Voodoo-only, but there's also the xgl driver which uses
OpenGL. OpenGL can be used with lots of different 3D cards, including the
Matrox G400+ series if I'm not mistaken.
Although for a Voodoo card, xfx is faster than xgl since there's one
less API layer to push data through.
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