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  New Acceleration Architecture for X.org
Developer Posted by binner on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @01:41
from the everyone-hug-zack dept.
At the recent European X.Org Developers Meeting KDE developer and Trolltech employee Zack Rusin presented a new acceleration architecture named Exa (eyecandy X architecture) for X.org. Being based on KAA (KDrive acceleration architecture) it's designed to be an alternative to the currently used XAA (XFree86 acceleration architecture) with better acceleration of XRender which is used by composite managers for desktop eyecandy effects. The next X.org release which is expected to contain Exa is planned to be released in September.

Making existing graphic card drivers using XAA take advantage of Exa is said to be easy and Zack volunteered to, besides bringing Exa into X.org, to port all unmaintained graphic card drivers as soon as he gets the respective hardware in his hands. Exa is meant to improve the desktop experience and bring users some much needed eye-candy while Xgl, an X-Server layered on top of OpenGL is being worked on.

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All eyecandy progress is good
by Erik on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @02:32
Outstanding. The instant-gratification part of me is happy this is being done on two stages (KAA then Xgl) as opposed to having to wait for Xgl. Any news about the Unichrome chipset's support? I could perhaps lend a hand.
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Xgl
by Simon Edwards on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @03:44
What kind of timetable is Xgl running on? Anyone know when we can expect it to come out?

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Simon
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So
by thom on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @04:33
So it's a new 2D acceleration layer which doesn't use OpenGL, how is it different from Evas ?
Is it specific to Qt and does it need any modifications beside video drivers ?
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Thanks Zack!
by fast_rizwaan on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @05:23
Thanks for improving X and Desktop experience. Thanks in advance :)
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Sweet!
by Ryan on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @06:40
Plasma here we come!
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Wunderkind?
by ac on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @07:14
"Zack volunteered to port all unmaintained graphic card drivers as soon as he gets the respective hardware in his hands"

Where did Zack suddenly get the whole knowledge to promise and do something like that? I didn't know him doing any hardware driver development before...
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So...
by Leon Mergen on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @07:28
... let the Slashdot begin...
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subpixel antialiasing
by mm on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @07:50
Will there be any progress with subpixel antialiasing? What does Eye Candy help when the fonts are still ugly displayed (yes, I switched subpixel hinting on in KDE)

Best wishes
mm
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KAA and KDrive
by Renato Sousa on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:56
Anyone find it funny that these K-initial technologies are in no way related to KDE (in the sense that the K in their name is not from KDE)
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With Nvidia
by ac on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @10:17
I use the binary 2d and 3d hardware accelerated driver from Nvidia.
Will I still see a speed/flicker improvement in X?
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Is it stable?
by wangxiaohu on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @12:14
Current COMPOSITE feature crashes a lot of applications. How about this one?
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My
by aNDY on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @21:25
I dont think X.org will be fine
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re
by aNDY on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @21:28
Oh My God
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Wow. Good news !!
by Jesus Franco on Wednesday 29/Jun/2005, @03:25
AWESOME. I bet kde withh be the first to take advantage of the features. Then Enlightenment then Xfce and gn0m3 :p
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blow to xgl
by MamiyaOtaru on Friday 12/Aug/2005, @07:04
mission accomplished!
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-August/009168.html

Good thing someone is working on this now that xgl has had a bit of a setback. Of course, exa seems to be part of the reason for the setback. boo hoo.
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