From: Novensiles divi Flamen <noven@sincorp.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:30:02 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701191030.02867.noven@sincorp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AFF91E.4050106@stepien.com.pl>
On Friday 19 January 2007 09:17, Jan Stępień wrote:
> >
> > Or you can start a second X with xinit. So you would have one
> > desktop (on F7)
> > with Xgl and one (F8) with 'normal' X.
>
> This method sounds interesting, but I have some doubts. Won't two
> separate X servers be too big challenge for my box? I've got an Athlon
> XP 3000+ (working at 2167 MHz) plus a GB of RAM. Having Xgl loaded in
> the background could be deadly for performance in OpenGL apps on Xorg.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
I use a script called xlaunch:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-483004-highlight-xlaunch.html
I run it on my laptop and have absolutely no problems, the xserver alone won't
kill your performance.
- Noven
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 22:47 [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?' Jan Stępień
2007-01-19 0:00 ` Novensiles divi Flamen [this message]
2007-01-19 0:05 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-01-19 15:43 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-19 15:59 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-19 16:32 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-20 1:22 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-20 13:14 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-22 4:47 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-22 17:29 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-22 17:52 ` Mick
2007-01-22 20:47 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-22 23:17 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-01-23 15:01 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-23 19:34 ` [gentoo-user] Direct rendering on a Radeon Benno Schulenberg
2007-01-27 7:58 ` [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?' Jan Stępień
2007-01-27 13:43 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-01-27 14:06 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-27 14:32 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-01-27 14:50 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-29 5:31 ` Martins
2007-01-28 16:12 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-27 17:17 ` Matthias Bethke
2007-01-29 8:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-22 18:06 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-22 20:50 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-22 22:32 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-22 20:01 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[not found] ` <45B525A5.5000704@stepien.com.pl>
2007-01-22 21:53 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-22 22:19 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-19 2:39 ` Fredrik Tolf
2007-01-19 11:00 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-19 14:01 ` Jan Stępień
2007-01-19 18:07 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-01-20 4:15 ` Novensiles divi Flamen
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2007-01-18 17:32 Jan Stępień
2007-01-18 18:44 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
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