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List:       opensolaris-laptop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [laptop-discuss] Compiz with i915??
From:       James Cornell <sparcdr () sparcdr ! com>
Date:       2007-12-13 21:56:47
Message-ID: 4761AA9F.7030006 () sparcdr ! com
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Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> James Cornell wrote:
>> Xgl works with ATI and AIXGL works with NVIDIA, I'm unsure how it would
>> work on Solaris, which uses mainline X.org 7.x (1.x) with some
>> patches. AIXGL afaik runs on top of the regular X server using GLX,
>> but only
>> NVIDIA has accelerated drivers on Solaris.  Direct rendering is what
>> would be used for ATI cards, but the newest cards I doubt much
>> success. Same goes for Intel, they'd use dri and mesagl, but your
>> milage may
>> vary, I don't know if much dri support for those cards has been
>> integrated.  Calling alanc!
>
> DRI support, including AIGLX, for Intel chipsets is in Solaris, and
> compiz
> has been used by a number of people on Intel chipsets.   I helped give a
> demo last summer at a user group meeting with compiz on a i945 laptop.
>
> I didn't think anyone really used Xgl anymore.
>
Ah I didn't know the status of Solaris Compiz support.  Thanks.

James
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