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A New Acceleration Architecture for Xorg: Glucose

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 16th Aug 2006 14:52 UTC, submitted by Jo�l Cornuz

Trolltech's Zack Rusin today introduced Glucose on Freedesktop Xorg mailing list. Glucose is a new "OpenGL based acceleration architecture" that "uses XGL code". It does not require any change on the drivers side, except a call to glucoseDriverInit.

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Cool

by orestes on Wed 16th Aug 2006 15:06 UTC

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2005-07-06

Now, if only nvidia would supply some compatible drivers...

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RE: Cool

by voidlogic on Wed 16th Aug 2006 21:44 in reply to "Cool"

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2005-09-03

You mean ATI, nvida drivers work flawlessly with Linux and XGL. They have even reached preformance parity with their windows counterparts.

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RE[2]: Cool

by alourenco on Wed 16th Aug 2006 21:54 in reply to "RE: Cool"

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2006-07-17

ATI drivers are not good performers for latest games but they sure work great with XGL. I'm using a "probably unsupported" Mobility X1600 with SLED10 and 8.26 or 8.27 drivers.

EDIT: with 8.26 XGL takes ages to start, with 8.27 that's fixed

With XGL I'm unable to use all OpenGL extensions for games and celestia, so is glucose the solution for that?

It would be great if desktop effects could be disabled on the fly, when some OpenGL app is started, or if they could coexist at full speed and with all extensions.

Edited 2006-08-16 21:58

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RE[2]: Cool

by orestes on Wed 16th Aug 2006 22:04 in reply to "RE: Cool"

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2005-07-06

But this is an extension to aiglx, not XGL.
That and nvidia still hasn't gotten around to supporting xorg 7.1 which I'm assuming this is part of.

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