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