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Hello,

> Hi, I was having some performance issues with Sun's X11 implementation
> and GTK2 +-2.8.x applications. On OpenSolaris forum I was told there
> was no Render extension in most Xsun drivers.
>=20
> I had exactly the same problem with NetBSD-3.0 on sparc64, but I think
> NetBSD-current has Render extension. The hardware in question is
> creator3d framebuffer. I was thinking about attempting to build Xorg
> on Sparc Solaris from pkgsrc. Does anyone know if the Render extension
> is implemented in Xorg? Or would it better to use XFree86? How much of
> a difference there is between XFree86 in pkgsrc and in NetBSD's cvs
> tree?

xorg 6.9.0 supposedly has Xrender acceleration on ffb cards.
The sunffb driver in NetBSD -current is derived from xorg's development
branch, supports Xrender and includes some additional bugfixes.

have fun
Michael

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