[OFF-TOPIC=on] It sounds like a new song to me: 'No shaders no render, no woman no cry'
[OFF-TOPIC=off] 2011/8/25 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:58:15 +0200 Dennis Heuer <[email protected] > > > said: > > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:17:03 +0200 > > Martin Koelewijn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Is that the wall-like zoomed out desktops overview, > > > > Yepp! > > > > > Anyway, try the comp-scale module. Load module, then > > > configure keybindings. > > > > i found out that this is in a modules-extra package but couldn't find a > > download. Is this repo-only? > > yes. svn. > > > Btw., I was able to switch on the compositor with OpenGL and Tex-to-Pix > > on my Radeon 9250 (RV280/128bit). But the speed is like in 2D-mode, no > > comparison to Compiz, except that workspace-switching is even slower. > > oh you poor bugger. ati card. i feel sorry for you :( my experience with > ati > has been poor over the years. their closed drivers are messy and > unreliable. > they have horrible hacks that mean if u arent compiz - u just dont work. > dont > even bother. i am not kidding when i LITERALLy found i had to change the > xecutable name of my initial compositor test to be compiz for it to work at > all > with the fglrx drivers. THATs how bad they are. they hunt and check process > name and only work if u are "compiz". they fixed that in later driver > versions > but that alone made me throw in the towel with ati. thats so wrong on so > many > levels. also with fglrx any resize (or creation) of a new texture is so > horribly > slow (it seems to be doing readback from video mem to cpu then back to > texture > again or something) that its unbearable. thats WHY compiz doesnt do "solid > resizes" and offers a box for resize. fglrx. thats why. i dont know if the > open > drivers are better. a while back i understood they didnt work well because > they > didnt properly support GLSL. e requires shaders to work. it actually works > like > a charm on embedded gpu's even (phones) - smooth and silky. it works very > well > on intel drivers (not gallium - the normal intel ones - though bleeding > edge > versions may have bugs) and it works stellarly on nvidia drivers. i don't > know > about nouveau. > > so... your biggest problem i think is... your gfx card and its drivers. if > it > doesnt handle GLSL shaders well in hw - you are in deep trouble. if it > doesnt > optimize them well (poor GLSL compiler in the opengl lib) then it will not > be > good. it's not that high a bar to get over these days, but it seems so many > people have poor drivers of gfx chips. and no - we aren't dropping GLSL > because > we need it for several evas features already (like yuv video support) and > we > are expanding its use. we simply cant survive without shaders and its a > royal > pain to support embedded GLES unless you choose shaders (GLES2 requires > shaders. no shaders - no render). > > > Best wishes, > > Dennis Heuer <[email protected]> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K > > The only unified storage solution that offers unified management > > Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. > > Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K > The only unified storage solution that offers unified management > Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. > Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- Wido ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
