On May 09, 09 02:40:29 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Man this was strange?? Is the default config distro specific or is it a > compiz generic issues that could be tweaked here?
Could be that archlinux has an older compiz - the default to e.g. load a window decorator isn't that new. Or the default paths are wrong, or... > Only other strange issues for compiz with the radeonhd driver is that > when I > run glxgears, the background for the gears is completely transparent (100% > gone). Additionally, shift switcher does not erase the original windows > before drawing the shift switch windows (the gradient draws correctly though) > See: This doesn't look like it's radeonhd related - more like an issue in the Mesa driver. There are only few people working on Mesa, and given the complexity of an OpenGL driver... > Only real downside so far with the radeonhd driver is the frame-rates > in > glxgears is about 1/5 what it was with the fglrx driver (Current: 188 FPS, > w/fglrx: 1000 FPS). But the desktop effects work smoothly, etc.. The only > noticeable lag is with rotate cube and on window resize, but it isn't that > bad either. So you see that glxgears is not a benchmark. Fullstop. But seriously, the open source driver is certainly not fast ATM. E.g. it's lacking tiling - that is something yet to be implemented in radeonhd. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mh...@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ m...@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz