Personal xorg-x11 6.8.99.14 rpm packages now available for Fedora Core 4 users

Lars Knoll lars at trolltech.com
Thu Jul 21 01:05:56 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 20 July 2005 20:32, Mark Czubin wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:35 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Chris Kurecka wrote:
> > | I'm not sure if this is what I need to be using Exa or not; is there
> > | any way to verify?  Would the performance boost I noticed be due to
> > | Exa or something else?  If I need to do something else to enable it,
> > | can I in xorg.conf, or do I need to checkout X.Org CVS?
> >
> > The radeon driver doesn't support exa yet.
>
> Hi,
>
> Does Exa at least work under nvidia driver? (I suppose until the next
> release)
> Anyways is there anything I need to look at when using this version?
> Any nice features I can enable or something cool :)

I have Exa partly working on Nvidia. The problem is that Nvidia doesn't give 
out any information about their chips, so I'm missing some information to 
make two important Acceleration hooks work (DMA transfers to and from main 
memory). Without these two hooks the gain of Exa is rather small.

Lars



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