Xinerama infrastructure
"Steve Salazar" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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Hi. I am not an X developer so forgive me if I get some of my facts/ideas wrong. Xinerama is currently not accelerated under XFree86. My understanding is that xinerama and acceleration were simply not built into the XFree 4.x architecture in a way that would make implementing accelerated xinerama in XFree86 a reasonable task for any but the most highly motivated individuals (none yet have emerged apparently) Now, I know that there are many many features and functions that are still being implemented in the rather young fd.o Xserver and that xinerama might not rank very high on that list of coding tasks, but in the end I assume that xinerama is something that people will want and that xserver will support. So, my question is this: is accelerated xinerama something that is even being considered at this early architecting stage of xserver development so that when the time comes to implement it, it will be reasonably easy and will actually happen? Is the fd.o xserver architected in a way that xinerama will fall conveniently within some abstraction that will make it so that we essentially get the multi-head support for free or with little overhead in terms of performance/coding effort/maintenance? Right now I am actually using Xig's x-server because I use dual head at work and the unaccellerated performance on dual head was totally unacceptable with XFree. Please tell me that I will not still be in this same situation one year from now. _________________________________________________________________ Get some great ideas here for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day - and beyond. http://special.msn.com/network/celebrateromance.armx