Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (44 mails)

[Joerg Lippmann <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 19:34 schrieb Uwe Bonnes:

>     Stefan> AFAIK this will happen soon (hint: look at the CVS tags). I
> will Stefan> provide RPMS for SuSE 9.1 ASAP - after the release has
> happened Stefan> :-).
>
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/Xorg/Xorg-X11R6.8.
>0-untested/i386/suse91/
>
> is populated.
> Has anybody any experience with these packages?

I have tried them with my Radeon-6800. 

Installation with rpm -Uhv *.rpm was easy. One has to fix some lines in one's 
XF86Config to provide for a xorg.conf (take a look at the readme) - easy, 
too. 

Xorg works, but I noticed a big difference in normal 2d-speed. Unfortunately, 
a difference in the wrong direction: many applications took *much* longer to 
start. 

I searched the net for xcompmgr and transset, compiled them and tried 
transparency and drop-shadows. Very nice to look at, but unbearably slow. 

In the end I re-installed XFree again, its much faster in 2d. 
Maybe xorg with the ATI-Drivers (fglrx) are better, but I haven't tried them.

Jörg@home
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