best eye candy for linux

[D. Hageman]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jason Clinton wrote:
>
> I would encourage you to check out the latest happenings in the X.org 6.8.x
> series. Using an NVidia based graphics board (and ATI when they catch up) it
> is possible to enable the experimental xcompmgr tools which provide a double
> buffered, hardware accelerated, drop shadowed and animated desktop. It's
> compatible with almost all existing X11 apps.
>
> It's basically a complete rip-off of the OS X graphics system QuartzExtreme.
> And it's quite functional.

You are incorrect with your claim that ATI cards can't use the new 
features of 6.8.x series from X.org.  In fact, ATI cards work just fine if 
you use the drivers that come with X.org.  You just can not use the binary 
drivers from ATI at this time.

I really enjoy using ATI cards in my Linux boxes.  The DRI drivers do a 
good job of supporting the r200 series of chips.  Work is progressing 
quite rapidly on getting good DRI support for the r300 series at this 
time.

I have always found binary only drivers to be such ... a PITA.


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