On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:02 +0200, Treviño wrote: > Some weeks ago one of my friends asked me to port the "use-copy" > (non-tfp) beryl's feature to Compiz since he wasn't able to run compiz > (fusion) smoothly in his nvidia card with turbocache (these cards works > well only using Xgl, otherwise they are affected by the [in]famous > "Black Window Bug". That's obiouvsly an error that nVidia should fix, > but in the latest months nothing has changed!); then Vladimir posted in > this list asking the use-copy feature for using compiz in fglrx drivers > too, that's why I passed the latest night in porting the code to Compiz > and... All works well! > > You can find the patch at: > compiz-use-copy-rendering.patch - http://tinyurl.com/35rum3 This was dismissed as a driver workaround back when it was implemented and if an inferior system is implemented the drivers will never get fixed properly. If this is really needed I think the copy mode patches implemented as a plugin by onestone are better because they avoid cluttering the core with workarounds. > > As in beryl now you'll have an "--use-copy" flag that you could use to > load compiz also if you don't have the texture-from-pixmaps support > > I've tested this with nvidia and radeon (free drivers) and compiz works > correctly > > I've not added an ABIVERSION change in patch, not to update the patch on > each compiz change, however as you'd know it's absolutely needed that > you recompile every plugin after applying this patch. Actually this doesn't exactly change the ABI so plugins would work without recompiling AFAIK. > > Let me know how it works for you! > Bye... >
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