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Re: GLX acceleration?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:17:29 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: GLX acceleration?
- References: <20041117022513.GA2320@ingber.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
> In an effort to get better performance on my ThinkPad/XPPRo I'm
> considering adding the "experimental" GLX acceleration module offered
> under setup. Is anyone using this?
I've tested it with some programs including the glut suite. Some of the
glut examples fail but most work well.
> How do you turn it on?
Just install it and run XWin_GL.exe instead of XWin.exe.
Any feedback is welcome.
BTW: Only the multiwindow mode is useful with the accelerated server since
the OpenGL drawing surface is not translated to match the window boundaries
in windowed moded.
bye
ago
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