[maemo-developers] Bad Xephyr OpenGL performance

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:

>> Can someone enlighten me, ideally with bug report URLs?
>
> Doesn't anybody know?

I might be completely off with this, but glxinfo seems to indicate
xephyr is not hw accelerated. On root X server (on my Karmic) I get:

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965Q GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3
x86/MMX/SSE2

And for xephyr:

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

My xephyr evocation is:

Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite &

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