On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:26 +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > Reply to the mail from Timo Reimerdes (tr@gtnw.de): > > > > > Yet another question: > > What, except the transparency and the shadow-thingy is of advantage in > > x.org? is anything done noticably better? is it recomendable? > > I have an iBook G4 with the ATI Radeon mobility 9200 and ( like on any card other than NVIDIA ) transparency works slow as hell. > > Also if you enable the composite extension ( required for transparency ), the server tends to crash ( it does for me > if I start some GTK+1.3 application ). So I guess one will turn off the composite manager ( and thus most of the new features ) > of anyway. > > But with the composite manager disabled, it runs just as solid as the xfree server. It is also said that the X.org server > should be able to recover from suspend-to-disk with DRI enabled which would be a real benefit compared to XFree. > So far I can't properly suspend with it even without DRI. The colors are off on resume without it, with it it has scrambled video in the same manner XFree86 4.3 does. > I have not noticed any other performance improvements. > > -Arne > > -- Chris Anderson <chris@nullcode.org> ICQ: 72021847 Jabber: chrisja@jabber.org 20B2 CB34 8AA5 05BC A90C 2CDD 2768 D4B4 2B93 424B
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