Opera and EXA: ``X Shared memory extension is not available''

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:11:40PM +0200, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:
> Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> writes:
> >> I believe it was a performance hack for web pages with several layers
> >> of partial transparency.  At the time we had an evil test case which
> >> saw great speed-up with this hack.  If the shm stuff isn't available,
> >> I'm sure we'll revert to ordinary rendering (that's basically what the
> >> "error" message is about).  So nothing should break.
> >
> > Please let us know precisely what performance problem you're working
> > around so we can fix it.
> >
> 
> Drawing lots of images with alpha-blending on top of each other was
> slow :)
> 
> This was several years ago, and I wasn't the one doing it.  So I'm not
> too sure I remember the details correctly.

By the sound of it, I've experienced similar issues with various
flavors of driver and traced it back to multiple layers of overlapping
transparency displayed withing Mozilla.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12671 may be relevant
(and contains a simple test case from me).
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-March/033956.html is
the thread I started on the issue.

(Michal - I just noticed that that you responded to my update on that
bug back in March.  I'll try to have a run at getting that data this
week, as well as testing the power of 2 idea.)

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
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