[Openchrome-users] EXA Composite acceleration.

[Thomas Hellström]

Hi!

I've now merged in a working implementation of composite acceleration 
for EXA (SVN revision 128), and updated the EXA documentation page 
accordingly:

http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Using+EXA+acceleration

In practice, for a normal user, this means you can use X composite 
managers doing eyecandy like window shadows, fading and translucency 
with enjoyable speed. You'd be amazed how fast an EPIA SP13000 desktop 
can feel with X composite managers and a lot of video memory enabled.

Technically it makes use of the unichrome's 3D engine which otherwise 
only is used for DRI accelerated OpenGL. You don't need DRI to use 
composite accelerated EXA, though.

/Thomas