On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Vivek Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu 10 Sep 2009 02:08:05 AM IST , Mehul Ved <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > >> indicating that "Compositing was too slow and has been disabled". I am > >> running an underpowered Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with an intel chipset. > > > > This could be the problem. My machine is running on Nvidia graphics > > card and seems to have no such trouble. Maybe someone with Intel > > graphics should try to replicate the problem. > Try this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582 . Intel EXA acceleration has many open issues, so better switch to the UXA accel method that the driver in the guide provides. Also, try disabling the kde4 compositing and use compiz-fusion instead, it has much better support for Indirect rendering on Intel cards. Kde4 compositing is still far from stable, I'll suggest using fusion instead, it works much better and smoother on low power gpu's. If your gpu has less that 64M onboard ram, best is to use indirect rendering in compiz, it'll save you from all those white-screen and scroll bugs in firefox. > > I have always faced problems with composting on Ubuntu 7.04 onwards on > Intel chipsets - Ubuntu has been experimenting with their intel drivers > a lot. For desktops I always get Nvidia cards. Karmic may have a better > intel implementation - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha5 > > Long time since I used my underpowered intel based laptop, but changing > the drivers being used provided a little help. Instead of intel, try > vesa, or i810 if it still exists. I think there's an experimental intel > driver also available in jaunty (too lazy to check myself). > > Second, not aware about KDE world - in Gnome you have composting built > in. So instead of using Compiz-Fusion which Ubuntu does by default in > newer releases, I use Metacity window manager composting. This gives the > shadow effect, some zoom effects and overall good look-and-feel, doesn't > hang-up and is light on resources. Maybe something similar is there in > KDE. > > -- > Best Regards > Vivek Kapoor > http://exain.com > -- Ankit Chaturvedi GPG: 05DE FDC5 468B 7D9F 9F45 72F1 F7B9 9E16 ECA2 CC23 <http://www.google.com/profiles/ankit.chaturvedi> _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
