'Re: Compositing, OpenGL programs and Intel graphics drivers'

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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Compositing, OpenGL programs and Intel graphics drivers
From:       Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk () voicenet ! com>
Date:       2009-01-13 1:05:05
Message-ID: 200901122005.05210.adamk () voicenet ! com
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On Monday 12 January 2009 19:56:43 Bipin George Mathew wrote:
> Will it work on any other graphics card? NVidia, ATI? If yes, why does the
> limitation only affect Intel cards?

This effects all video card drivers that use Xorg's direct rendering 
infrastructure, including the open source and closed source drivers for ATI 
video cards.  nvidia does not use that same infrastructure.

Adam

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