From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:38:59 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add instructions on enabling exa
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=cworth.org;a=commitdiff_plain;h=67452315242ae0676bdf4768bcdcf5d0a771b096

Add instructions on enabling exa
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diff --git a/src/tag/exa.mdwn b/src/tag/exa.mdwn
index cdd0ce2..ab3a0ec 100644
--- a/src/tag/exa.mdwn
+++ b/src/tag/exa.mdwn
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 
 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