Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Apr 2006 15:42 UTC, submitted by Mark
"LinuxForums takes a look at Xgl, and concludes: "In conclusion, Xgl is an exciting technology, it still needs some work to be done mainly to do with non nvidia/ati graphics cards and extending support to a wider variety of graphics chipsets. I for one will wait a bit longer (until the holidays) before attempting to install it onto my computer, perhaps by then more animations/plugins will be made available and support for other DE's would be available." Lots of videos inside, boys and girls, so rejoice.
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2006-02-24
The problem is mainly with XAA and the ATI driver. If you try using standard Xorg 7.0 with the Nvidia drivers, things fly. Redraws are very quick, up to the point you don't notice them (ie. similar to Windows).
With any composed desktop (xcompmgr/xgl/aiglx), redraws will be significantly improved as the application will no longer need to be prompted to redraw when a region of the screen is uncovered. The composite manager pulls the pixmaps directly from memory.
Looking ahead, we really should be looking at moving the infrastrucutre to opengl. Xgl still relies on GLX and the underlying X server, but it's getting closer to what we want eventually (ie. Xegl)