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Could have sworn 2D acceleration was a thing, and supported by X drivers, long before Compiz and like got the DE boys all hot and bothered about GPU eyecandy.
by digi_owl 10y ago
Could have sworn 2D acceleration was a thing, and supported by X drivers, long before Compiz and like got the DE boys all hot and bothered about GPU eyecandy.
- ibotty 10y ago... but most graphics cards can't. 2D accel as in X has not been supported in graphics cards since the matrox generation afair.
- makomk 10y ago2D accel in X is generally implemented using the 3D engine of graphics cards, which is more than capable of doing basic stuff like blitting.
- mattst88 10y agoThree times throughout the comments on this article, you have referred to the freedesktop/DE/container "boys". I could be wrong for doing so, but I read that as somewhat derogatory, in case you didn't mean it that way.
- MBCook 10y agoIf that was true, then how can people still see screen tearing?
- digi_owl 10y agoShit drivers. Notice that you can flip a setting on Intel stuff that sync updates. Best i can tell most if not all of the complaints comes from people using Nvidia's proprietary drivers without attempting any tweaks, and blaming X11.