Debates on the future of Compiz [LWN.net]

Debates on the future of Compiz

Posted Jan 8, 2009 15:27 UTC (Thu) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701)
In reply to: Debates on the future of Compiz by tajyrink
Parent article: Debates on the future of Compiz

No, DRI2 solves this problem which is not the same as the 2.5 branch. You need Mesa 7.2, Xorg 1.6.99.x and a suitable DRI2-capable video driver. Incidentally, it also fixes video and OpenGL app. rendering on Metacity Xrender and Mutter and KWin4.

With DRI2, rendering contexts just work the way you'd expect.

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Debates on the future of Compiz

Posted Jan 9, 2009 16:50 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050) [Link]

DRI2 is not a requirement for properly integrating XVideo with a compositing manager. The driver just needs to provide a textured XVideo adaptor for that (and the video player application needs to use that, obviously :).

DRI2 is indeed a requirement for properly integrating accelerated client OpenGL rendering output with a compositing manager though.