Some questions about xf86-video-intel driver

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Oct 22 09:44:42 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 18:45 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:37:18PM +0200, Simon Pasch wrote:
> > 
> > My questions are: (please keep in mind, that I'm a X-newbie...)
> > - Am I right, that the Intel driver needs DRI for accelerated 2D, too?
> > (is the missing DRI-usage possibly the reason, why X reserves so much
> > memory?)
> 
> DRI is needed for EXA, but not for XAA (so the answer is "sorta" since
> XAA is the default at the moment.)

It isn't needed for EXA either.


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