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Re: [opensuse-xorg] Slow desktop effects on ATI cards under the fglrx drivers
by Henne Vogelsang 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi, Dominik Grafenhofer wrote: >> Why don't we fix the patch? Egbert can you do this? > The problem is that afaik even core xorg developers, fglrx and > compiz/kde4 developers cannot agree on how to fix it. Matthias said that if we contain the code-path in a check for the drivername it might be acceptable for our xorg. Thats what i think is the better idea. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-xorg] Slow desktop effects on ATI cards under the fglrx drivers
by Dominik Grafenhofer 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi all, It is a well known problem, that some desktop effects (e.g. maximizing windows on compiz and kwin4) are unacceptably slow (take a few SECONDS) when using the fglrx driver on ATI cards. Who is to blame for the problem, is not entirely clear (possible candidates: kwin, xorg, fglrx). For the time being there exists a hack/workaround/... for the xserver, which disables background initialization. This will result in background corruption on some drivers, on others the corruption is not noticeable and the speed of desktop is back to normal, leading to usable desktop effects. Ubuntu provides a PPA containing xserver packages with this patch applied for users of fglrx. I have created a buildservice repository to provide them for openSUSE (at the moment only for Factory, as I am struggling to rebuild the xorg-x11-server package on 11.2 - even without applying any further patch). I am not sure what the optimal policy regarding these packages could be, because of the sideeffects of the workaround on other graphics cards. However, desktop effects are nearly unusable for ATI users running (having to run) fglrx, so having a repository providing these packages which is visible to endusers would be a plus. The perfect solution would be to put the patched xserver packages in the ATI fglrx repository. However, I do not know if this is feasible. Dominik More details can be found under: https://features.opensuse.org/307845 My buildservice repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dgrafenhofer/openSUSE_Facto… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help(a)opensuse.org

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11 Sep '09

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