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jiggy2011
on April 25, 2012
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Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael ...
Hopefully Wayland will fix some of this and make it easier for video card drivers to be written.
Ralith
on April 25, 2012
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What will Wayland do to make video drivers easier to write?
Perhaps you're thinking of Gallium3D?
jiggy2011
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IIRC in order to make the acceleration work correctly nVidia needed to actually re-implement a number of parts of the X Server itself since X was not originally designed for accelerated drivers / compositing.
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