Hi,
As there has been some confusion over Xgl and Xorg here, I thought I'd
just post this. XGL acts as a client to the Xserver and acts as a server for
all programs connecting to itself. Instead of displaying its results on a
monitor, it interprets the display and calls the appropriate OpenGL APIs;
the OpenGL driver physically interacts with the screen, keyboard and mouse.
So you do need a XServer with driver support for OpenGL acceleration to use
Xgl with composite window managers via glitz and glitz-glx.
AIGLX on the other hand does not require a separate server like Xgl. AIGLX
uses indirect rendering. The commands are first sent to X which then
redirects them to the GPU via the drivers. To support AIGLX the driver needs
to support GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap as well as Composite in order to use
compositing window managers. AIGLX has been integrated into Xorg since Xorg
7.1.
ATI proprietary drivers upto 8.41.7 did not have AIGLX support and hence XGL
had to be used. From 8.42 AIGLX support has been added.
Hope this clears it up.
Regards,
Karthik Ramgopal
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On 12/03/2008, Karthik Ramgopal <applefreakpeeps at gmail.com> wrote:> > Hi, > As there has been some confusion over Xgl and Xorg here, I thought I'd > just post this. XGL acts as a client to the Xserver and acts as a server for > all programs connecting to itself. Instead of displaying its results on a > monitor, it interprets the display and calls the appropriate OpenGL APIs; > the OpenGL driver physically interacts with the screen, keyboard and mouse. > So you do need a XServer with driver support for OpenGL acceleration to use > Xgl with composite window managers via glitz and glitz-glx. > > AIGLX on the other hand does not require a separate server like Xgl. AIGLX > uses indirect rendering. The commands are first sent to X which then > redirects them to the GPU via the drivers. To support AIGLX the driver needs > to support GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap as well as Composite in order to use > compositing window managers. AIGLX has been integrated into Xorg since Xorg > 7.1. > > ATI proprietary drivers upto 8.41.7 did not have AIGLX support and hence XGL > had to be used. From 8.42 AIGLX support has been added. > > Hope this clears it up.Thank you. I still feel like I don't know enough about the underlying technologies (and wikipedia is way over my head on these subjects) but this clears up a bit. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?