From 67452315242ae0676bdf4768bcdcf5d0a771b096 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:38:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions on enabling exa --- src/tag/exa.mdwn | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.43.0