Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
On Friday 06 January 2006 17:03, Kenton Groombridge wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes. Ken is this with nvidia? Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW? send me your xorg.conf offlist? Mike I have a BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC. Pretty beefy card, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but it runs quite fast and is very usable. I put my xorg.conf in my webstorage. Here is a link: http://webpages.charter.net/kgroombr/xorg.conf Good luck, Ken Thanks Ken, I pasted your options into my xorg.config file and it works great! The only thing in can figure is I must have had some silly syntax error or something. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:14, Kenton Groombridge wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. Thanks, Will try today. I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for another thing I read somewhare that OO-org 2 has a problem with transparency.. Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work? Mike kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes. Ken is this with nvidia? Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW? send me your xorg.conf offlist? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes. Ken is this with nvidia? Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW? send me your xorg.conf offlist? Mike I have a BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC. Pretty beefy card, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but it runs quite fast and is very usable. I put my xorg.conf in my webstorage. Here is a link: http://webpages.charter.net/kgroombr/xorg.conf Good luck, Ken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:35:09 -0500 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using kde-3.5.0. I setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it is really beautifull.. BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and crashes all the time. It crashes x. My system is Dell 8600, with an nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to date including teh nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
On Thursday 05 January 2006 06:13, Tom Martin wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:35:09 -0500 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using kde-3.5.0. I setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it is really beautifull.. BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and crashes all the time. It crashes x. My system is Dell 8600, with an nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to date including teh nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. Thanks, Will try today. I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for another thing I read somewhare that OO-org 2 has a problem with transparency.. Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. Thanks, Will try today. I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for another thing I read somewhare that OO-org 2 has a problem with transparency.. Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work? Mike kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes. Ken -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
