Talk:AIGLX

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Started up the article, linked the Fedora Wiki. Someone might want to add some links, but all I can find are little snippets in blogs which are hardly relevant (and say nothing more than I've described in this article.) My work here is done, so someone else should start fixing all the things I've got wrong. :) LainOfIICHAN 16:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW, does this work with/replace Xinerama for running GL (like xscreensaver hacks) across multiple displays?

[edit] Inaccuracies

"hardware-driven usability improvements, such as smoothed fonts, accelerated window-drawing" -- This is a bit misleading because, compared to Xgl which does font smoothing and accel through GL, AIGLX does _NOT_ do so, instead using traditional acceleration.

The first paragraph also suggests that AIGLX has similarities to compiz, which doesn't make sense. AIGLX is analogous to Xgl, but compositing managers like compiz and modified Metacity work one layer above AIGLX/Xgl, and should in theory work with both.

Will hopefully find time to clean up the article, but in the meantime, readers should be aware of these inaccuracies -- lstanley

[edit] Hardware Support

Hardware support for the product is limited to hardware with free drivers due these changes: currently R200 generation and earlier ATI Radeon cards (R300 drivers are currently in development) and a few Intel embedded onboard video modules.

This is outdated. VIA Unichrome works now, and probably several others as well. In addition, the latest nVidia drivers do support XOrg 7.1, though they don't work with AIGLX.

ATI drivers support X.org 7.1 now. Not sure about AIGLX.