Hi,
Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye
candy :) and everything works pretty good.
The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to > 80% for
intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems to
me that switching desktops a lot hel
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
> I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
> Radeon 9200se card with the following options:
I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having
>
> [...]
> Section "Device"
>
> #VideoRam 131072
>
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
> I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
> Radeon 9200se card with the following options:
I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having
>
> [...]
> Section "Device"
>
> #VideoRam 131072
>
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
Radeon 9200se card with the following options:
I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having
[...]
Section "Device"
#VideoRa
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:59, b.n. wrote:
> In fact, once tweaking xorg.conf for performance, composite works
> fast and quite well, apart from the occasional xorg CPU problem of my
> original mail. It seems more like a bug, however.
>
> > My experiences were that composite with the radeon dri
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
> > I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
> > Radeon 9200se card with the following options:
>
> I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are havin
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:21, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D.
> > For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver
>
> actually the open source radeon driver support for 3D is getting
> better all the time!
>
> As of x11
On 10/9/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye
candy :) and everything works pretty good.
The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to > 80% for
intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seem
If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the
portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-)
Yes, I investigated it. But it seems my card is not so well supported by
XGL (If you have different experiences let me know) and XGL eye candy
is (still) not what I was looking for, at least a
On 10/10/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the
> portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-)
Yes, I investigated it. But it seems my card is not so well supported by
XGL (If you have different experiences let me know) and XGL eye candy
On 10/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hmm, I seem to be a bit confused with my bug reports [1] and stuff
I've read elsewhere. But google around a bit for xcompmgr and read
what others are saying, and consider that xcompmgr hasn't seen any
significant work in over 2 years [2].
Wo
Richard Fish ha scritto:
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Xgl either, but I am of AIGLX, and I was under
the impression that the open source radeon driver had good support for
AIGLX. I'm using nvidia, so I had to wait for the 9xxx driver release
before I could use it... :-(
I was under the impression AI
b.n. wrote:
Richard Fish ha scritto:
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Xgl either, but I am of AIGLX, and I was under
the impression that the open source radeon driver had good support for
AIGLX. I'm using nvidia, so I had to wait for the 9xxx driver release
before I could use it... :-(
I was under the
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 15:46 +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 13:21 schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> > As of x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350
> > based) which there never was before.
> > In fact, x11-drm gives me FASTER frame rates that fglrx
Before answering comments: well, tonight I've seen there must be
something definitely wrong with my XFCE/Composite setup.No more
full-time CPU hogging, but switching desktops rapidly became a pain
-lags of *seconds* with CPU whirling at nearly 90% in between. I had to
kill xcompmgr. Back to pla
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b.n. wrote:
> Wow!
> That's a big step towards what I wanted to hear -integrated 3d desktop
> without having to hack around with X.I don't like to use ~x86 for
> critical packages like X, but I hope 7.1 will be x86 relatively soon...
Yes, pretty WOW!
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