Greetings everybody! For about two weeks I'm now a happy owner of an intel-powered laptop (chipset, wifi, gfx) and wanted to give it a full test-drive of compiz and other GL-intensive programs.
The laptop runs Xorg 7.1.1 and the i810 driver that comes with it (stock rpm from FC6). I'm forced to start compiz 0.3.4 with these options... --use-cow --strict-binding --indirect-rendering ... to merely get compiz to work. I cannot leave out any of those options, otherwise I don't see anything rendered by compiz. While I'm a bit spoiled regarding performance coming from my desktop-system (nvidia-driven, using nvidia's AIGLX), I did not expect the i915 (AIGLX) solution to be such a bad performer. At a resolution of 1280x800 I can barely use the cube-rotatation, switcher or drag-rotate while moving windows to different workspaces. Furthermore GL-apps leave artifacts on the screen when dragged around (even if ran under metacity) and I don't seem to be able to get transparent GL-apps working (e.g. try gl-cairo-cube from people.freedesktop.org/~macslow). I know that the i915 is an integrated graphics-chip solution using only system-memory, but I remember people showcasing screencaptures of such systems with much better performance under compiz. Is all this only a Xorg/driver problem or will I never get any decent performance (and feature-parity compared to low-end nvidia-hardware) from this laptop when running a composited desktop-environemnt? Also the screensaver seems to be to much for this setup as it only display a black nothing (only the mouse-cursor is visible and I have a hard time entering my password to unlock it again). What disappoints me also is the lack of support for transparent GL-apps under compiz on the i915. I'm not sure if this is a purely a driver issue or partly my fault (not selecting the correct visual in e.g. gl-cairo-cube). All my transparent cairo-hacks work fine. Thanks in advance for your time and kind advice! Best regards... Mirco "MacSlow" Müller -- email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www - http://macslow.thepimp.net lowfat - http://macslow.thepimp.net/sponsor-it _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz