Comment 84 for bug 146859

Windows XP and OS X work around this hardware limitation, most likely by doing the same thing as the shatter work for Xorg. Basically it splits the screen into "shards" and renders them separately which works around the limitation. However, there is a still a lot of work that needs to be done for this to work in Xorg so I would not expect to see it any time soon. Maybe in a year or so at the rate it has been going so far.