X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=src%2Ftag%2Fexa.mdwn;h=ab3a0ecc44933f07811d1109238a44db88b9abd9;hb=393c2e1efd7645f9bbffdf2fcdb581766c3d68b6;hp=23a07a7ac5aa5b099c5d3073e1297df16a8b3db0;hpb=f70d643df5cb125a8e3868553f8be92e327aa98f;p=cworth.org diff --git a/src/tag/exa.mdwn b/src/tag/exa.mdwn index 23a07a7..ab3a0ec 100644 --- a/src/tag/exa.mdwn +++ b/src/tag/exa.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ +[[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