Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-26 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 13:34:27 Bill Longman wrote: On 03/22/2011 11:57 PM, Mick wrote: My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 machine: $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-23 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 00:16:46 Bill Longman wrote: Well after fifteen minutes of no crashes, here are my settings: $ emerge -pv xorg-server mesa cairo $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 11:57 PM, Mick wrote: My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 machine: $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). Thanks Jorge,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: Bill Longman wrote: On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: I have a very similar setup and it works fine here, AMD Phenom II X4 955 Deneb 3.2GHz with a Nvidia GT-220 video card. I also have the SB700/SB800 chipset as well, Gigabyte mobo. The biggest difference I see is the video card as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 03:32 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: Bill Longman wrote: On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). Thanks Jorge, I switched to classic too and now it does not crash - however: 1. When I start kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). Thanks Jorge, I switched to classic too and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Some digging around helped a bit - I switched in SystemSettings/Desktop Effects, the Compositing Type from OpenGL to XRender and now it does not suspend (although 'wobbly windows' and 'Desktop Cube Animation' are disabled. In E17 which I use daily the compositing works fine, until

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 March 2011 18:17:23 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Some digging around helped a bit - I switched in SystemSettings/Desktop Effects, the Compositing Type from OpenGL to XRender and now it does not suspend (although 'wobbly windows' and 'Desktop Cube Animation' are disabled. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jorge Martínez López
I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). Cheers, -- Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com http://www.jorgeml.net