Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

["Jerome R. Westrick" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:34, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Anders wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Wed, Oct 06 at 15:06:
> > I think people are quite excited about the new features in X, such as the 
> > composite manager which allows for "true" transparency (i.e. dynamically 
> > calculated, not just a snapshot of what the background looked like when the 
> > window was drawn), working towards a fully hardware accelerated desktop with 
> > backends like Cairo. Sadly, the reports suggest that it doesn't work 100% 
> > with the nvidia driver yet
> 
> I've been having excelent luck running x.org on some ATI cards.  I'm only
> running it on a Celeron 333 and Mac G4 right now, but the performance
> "feels" a bit better than it did with XFree.  Unfortunately, I didn't do
> any benchmarking before, so I've no real numbers.  I haven't tried it on
> any of the machines that have nVidia cards installed yet, either, so I
> can't speak to functionality with the nVidia driver.  But I can sure push
> ATI products. :)
> 

The XFree group was real dificult about adding features and drivers to
it's codebase.  That's why there are so many splits off it...

I expect the X.org to be better...


Jerry

> --Danny, who hasn't gotten the AIWpro capture stuff working under XFree
> *or* x.org yet, though