+[[!meta title="EXA"]]
+
EXA is a modern acceleration architecture for the X server. It
originally began its life as the acceleration mechanism in Keith
-Packard's "kdrive" X servers, but was ported to Xorg by Zack Rusin.
+Packard's "kdrive" X servers, but was ported to Xorg by Zack
+Rusin. EXA can be selected as the acceleration mechanism to be used by
+the X server with the following directive in the xorg.conf file:
+
+ # In the Device section, (might work elsewhere as well)
+ Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
EXA is interesting to me since it provides the X device driver with
the opportunity to accelerate Render extension requests, (which
predecessor, XAA, (which doesn't afford a word-like
pronunciation). See also: Xorg pronounced as "zorg".
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