x.org 7.0 & new world order

Thu Dec 22 16:41:47 PST 2005

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 23:02 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:43:16AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:41 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > ChangesSince68 hints at a few of these.  9200 has EXA support which should 
> > > give better performance for the Composited desktop case, non-rectangular 
> > > MergedFB support, and quite a few performance updates to the 2d and 3d 
> > > drivers, and probably some other stuff I'm not remembering.
> > 
> > Talking about non-rectangular mergedfb support, how does it work ? Last
> > time I tried, I had the "smaller" screen pan, which I find very bad,
> > basically .makes it unuseable for me. Did we ever add a way to just mark
> > the "unused" rectangle a no-go zone and be done with it ?
> 
> This was fixed sometime after 6.8.2.

Hrm... I'm fairly sure I tried with 6.8.99-something, but I'll give it
another go.

Ben.