On Thu 10 Sep 2009 02:08:05 AM IST , Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Anupam Jain <ajn...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> indicating that "Compositing was too slow and has been disabled". I am >> running an underpowered Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with an intel chipset. > > This could be the problem. My machine is running on Nvidia graphics > card and seems to have no such trouble. Maybe someone with Intel > graphics should try to replicate the problem.
I have always faced problems with composting on Ubuntu 7.04 onwards on Intel chipsets - Ubuntu has been experimenting with their intel drivers a lot. For desktops I always get Nvidia cards. Karmic may have a better intel implementation - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha5 Long time since I used my underpowered intel based laptop, but changing the drivers being used provided a little help. Instead of intel, try vesa, or i810 if it still exists. I think there's an experimental intel driver also available in jaunty (too lazy to check myself). Second, not aware about KDE world - in Gnome you have composting built in. So instead of using Compiz-Fusion which Ubuntu does by default in newer releases, I use Metacity window manager composting. This gives the shadow effect, some zoom effects and overall good look-and-feel, doesn't hang-up and is light on resources. Maybe something similar is there in KDE. -- Best Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
