Finishing Composite to handle transformed windows
Brian Paul
brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com
Tue Jan 10 07:30:11 PST 2006
Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:56 -0800, Allen Akin wrote:
>
>
>>FBConfigs might provide an interface to do that, but I have no idea
>>whether there's enough mechanism already available in the
>>implementations.
>
>
> Brian's response appears to indicate that changing the resource
> allocation for the root window is 'really hard' with the current Mesa
> architecture, which kinda suggests that we'd best find an alternate
> solution, independent of the possibility of pressing FBConfigs into
> service...
Just to summarize, I think Allen's "many FBConfigs for each visual"
idea is probably the most practical, but it would require some DRI/GLX
work. Ian Romanick might be able to provide more details since he
last worked on the fbconfig/visual code.
-Brian
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