EXA revisited

Mon Aug 6 10:04:51 PDT 2007

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:24 +0300, sshachar at t2.technion.ac.il wrote:
> 
> 1. Why do I need to chnage the policy from the defualt (i guess in my version I
> got with the latest stable Debian, XOrg 7.1.1). I noticed newer releases have a
> new "smart" policy by default.

"greedy" was the default until xserver 1.1, "smart" in 1.2, "always" is
since 1.3.

> 2. Can EXA expose scaling operation to hardware?

Yes, this is handled via transforms of the pictures passed to the
Composite hook.

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