XGL on this laptop ... what do you think?

Here's my laptop ...
http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/n341c2/N341C2.htm
I'm thinking about XGL, it looks interesting, but the S3 ProSavage graphics card is questionable ... thought I'd ask for your opinions   Thanks a bunch!

I would try it with Xorg 7.1 (PKGBUILDs available [/url=http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=22990]here[/url]), which has AIGLX - that works fine with Unichrome (I know because I've tried it on said hardware), and there's no reason it wouldn't work with Savage. I would expect mediocre performance on eyecandy stuff though - I once had Savage and found it to be slow as hell with anything 3D, and I don't think that was a driver problem.
(On the other hand... can that laptop run BZFlag with linear-mipmap-linear texturing and blending enabled, at a decent framerate? If it can do that under Xorg 7.x, then I'm wrong about Savage performance not being a driver problem.)

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