3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-03 Thread Prasanna Kumar T S M
On 03-06-2011 00:16, Alan Cox wrote: >> The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. >> In X these are currently tied together. The only real obstacle is >> fixing this in X. However, this is a lot of work. Dave Airlie has >> started working on this, but it's not really u

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-03 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Prasanna Kumar T S M wrote: > On 03-06-2011 00:16, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. >>> In X these are currently tied together. ?The only real obstacle is >>> fixing this in X. ?However, this is a lot of wo

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-03 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Prasanna Kumar T S M wrote: > On 03-06-2011 00:16, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. >>> In X these are currently tied together.  The only real obstacle is >>> fixing this in X.  However, this is a lot of wo

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-03 Thread Prasanna Kumar T S M
On 03-06-2011 00:16, Alan Cox wrote: The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. In X these are currently tied together. The only real obstacle is fixing this in X. However, this is a lot of work. Dave Airlie has started working on this, but it's not really usable yet.

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Clark
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, PRASANNA KUMAR wrote: > USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D > effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux > the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All > the grap

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Clark
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, PRASANNA KUMAR wrote: > USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D > effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux > the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All > the grap

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. > In X these are currently tied together. The only real obstacle is > fixing this in X. However, this is a lot of work. Dave Airlie has > started working on this, but it's not really usable yet. See: > http://airlied.livejo

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Prasanna Kumar T S M
Garry, My first name is "PrasannaKumar". I will use my full name to prevent confusion :). I want 3D acceleration for running Compiz or GNOME3 or KWin with composition. Currently windows Displaylink driver compresses and transfers pixel data where there is a change (only damaged area is transf

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> The window system needs support for splitting rendering and display. > In X these are currently tied together. The only real obstacle is > fixing this in X. However, this is a lot of work. Dave Airlie has > started working on this, but it's not really usable yet. See: > http://airlied.livejo

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-06-02 Thread Prasanna Kumar T S M
Garry, My first name is "PrasannaKumar". I will use my full name to prevent confusion :). I want 3D acceleration for running Compiz or GNOME3 or KWin with composition. Currently windows Displaylink driver compresses and transfers pixel data where there is a change (only damaged area is tran

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-05-31 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:30 PM, PRASANNA KUMAR wrote: > USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D > effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux > the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All > the graph

Re: 3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-05-31 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:30 PM, PRASANNA KUMAR wrote: > USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D > effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux > the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All > the graph

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-05-30 Thread PRASANNA KUMAR
USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All the graphics operation is done using the native (primary) GPU and the

3D support for Displaylink devices

2011-05-30 Thread PRASANNA KUMAR
USB graphics devices from displaylink does not have 3D hardware. To get 3D effects (compiz, GNOME 3, KWin, OpenGL apps etc) with these device in Linux the native (primary) GPU can be used to provide hardware acceleration. All the graphics operation is done using the native (primary) GPU and the