4.1.99 slow

[Jonathan Gardner]

If you are using the drivers from NVidia you have to include the line:

Option 	"AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

in the Device section. Otherwise, with Compositor on you're not getting
hardware acceleration, or something like that. You may need the latest
nVidia drivers to use that option, or at least somewhat stably. I'm not
sure. I also have the option:

Option 	"RenderAccel" "on"

in there as well, but I don't know enough to know why I did that.
Probably copying someone else's xorg.conf. ;-)
But I know that first option is required.

These lines are right under the line:

Driver      "nvidia"

This seemed to work for me. 

Jonathan


On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 11:39 -0200, Romeu Fonseca wrote:
> I have the same problem here and my video card is a GeForce with 64
> MB.... It's much slower than before, when coomposite was disable in
> xorg.conf.                                                        In
> RC1 did it behave differently? Or it's a specif problem in RC2?
> In my xorg.conf, I've wrote those lines:
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option "Composite" "Enable"
>         Option "RENDER" "Enable"
> EndSection
> 
> Anything missing?
> 
> Thanks, Romeu
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:17:29 +0100 (CET), Olivier FOURDAN
> <fourdan.olivier at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > > am i right in understanding that my being able to use it (without it
> > > being sluggish) will be down to new versions of the ati kernel drivers
> > > (i have a radeon card and use the kernel drivers for it rather than the
> > > ati ones)? or is it likely to always be slow on my hardware (radeon 9000
> > > mobile w/ 32mb). it's no biggie, but the drop shadows look so nice ... :)
> > 
> > Don't ask us, ask ATI.
> > 
> > In the mean time, you can disable the compositor in xfwm4 from its command line
> > 
> > xfwm4 --compositor=on
> > xfwm4 --compositor=auto
> > xfwm4 --compositor=off
> > 
> > on = Turn internal compositor on if composite extensions are present on the display,
> > auto = enable X Server compositor, do not use xfwm4 compositor,
> > off = Turn off compositing all together.
> > 
> > So in your case, simply fire a terminal and do:
> > 
> > killall xfwm4 && xfwm4 --compositor=off &
> > 
> > Then when you save the session, it will remain off.
> > 
> > If, later on you wish to switch it on again, do the reverse like that:
> > 
> > killall xfwm4 && xfwm4 --compositor=on &
> > 
> > HTH
> > Olivier.
> > 
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