Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-27 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:36:59 +0100 schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 26 Aug 2015 04:47:24 waben...@gmail.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. That file didn't work right either. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-27 Thread wabenbau
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I do not use a xorg.conf file with the Kaveri APU. It just works with the following: I deleted my xorg.conf and X is still working without any problems. In /etc/portage/make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon radeonsi ditto.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-26 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 26 Aug 2015 04:47:24 waben...@gmail.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. That file didn't work right either. Then I finally realized that the generated xorg.conf had, in the Section Device section,

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-26 Thread walt
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:36:59 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 26 Aug 2015 04:47:24 waben...@gmail.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Then I generated an xorg.conf in the old way using 'Xorg -configure'. That file didn't work right either.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-25 Thread wabenbau
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel driver in use: radeon gigabytes snipped for readability Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-25 Thread walt
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel driver in use: radeon gigabytes snipped for readability Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got the open- source ati/radeon

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off? [FIXED]

2015-08-24 Thread walt
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:08:55 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:25:47 PM walt wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: I forgot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-23 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:25:47 PM walt wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just emerged it and (I think) made all the changes

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-23 Thread walt
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0200 bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just emerged it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to use it instead of fglrx.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-22 Thread bitlord
On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 19:08 -0700, walt wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:08:41 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using XFCE as DE and xfwm4 as WM. Since I bought a new GPU (Radeon R7 250), I don't use compositing any more because it causes tearing when I watch videos in fullscreen with

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-22 Thread walt
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:08:41 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using XFCE as DE and xfwm4 as WM. Since I bought a new GPU (Radeon R7 250), I don't use compositing any more because it causes tearing when I watch videos in fullscreen with 3840x2160. With this GPU I also had some random