On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: >> On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: > >>>> Do you have desktop effects enabled? I found that my system >>>> is much >>>> more stable with desktop effects turned off [1]. My video >>>> is ATI [2] >>>> with driver 'ati' [3]. >>>> >>>> Footmarks: >>>> 1. ~]$ uptime >>>> 10:27:28 up 3 days, 9:22, 3 users, load >>>> average: 0.25, 0.22, 0.18 >>>> 2. ~]$ lspci >>>> [--SNIP--] >>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc >>>> RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] >>>> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP >>>> [Radeon >>>> 9600] (Secondary) >>>> 3. ati - Vendor-supplied driver for ati cards >> >> >> I do have an ATI card. I'll try turning off desktop effects. Removing >> glx-utils removes all of compiz! >> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 >> [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] >> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] >> > Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had > about equal numbers of people tell me that the vendor driver is vastly > more stable than the built-in driver, and totally the opposite. > > Oh, and some fundamentalist open source fanatics who tell me it's better > to crash a few times a day than use a closed source driver. ;-) > > The only "desktop effect" of interest to me is stability. >
Agreed on your final point. Just for grins, I'm downloading and will try the Radeon X300 drivers directly from ATI with Compiz enabled. -- Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
