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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:31 pm    Post subject: radeon's AIGLX for what? Reply with quote

Now running X without AIGLX turned on and I am not seeing any significant difference.

Why is the purpose of AIGLX??

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:57 am    Post subject: Re: radeon's AIGLX for what? Reply with quote

_______0 wrote:
Now running X without AIGLX turned on and I am not seeing any significant difference.

Why is the purpose of AIGLX??

thnks


check glxinfo under renderer and you will see.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AIGLX is mostly used by OpenGL compositors, such as Compiz, KDE's kwin with OpenGL desktop effects or GNOME's mutter.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

chithanh wrote:
AIGLX is mostly used by OpenGL compositors, such as Compiz, KDE's kwin with OpenGL desktop effects or GNOME's mutter.

Not really, they all use direct rendering. AIGLX was only used in the short period of time when open drivers weren't capable of redirected direct rendering. DRI2 then made that possible, making AIGLX obsolete for desktop use.
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