making the compositor work?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:33 -0800, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> * On Sat Nov-27-2004 at 09:25:25 PM -0800, Net Llama! said:
> > On 11/27/2004 09:25 PM, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> > >* On Sat Nov-27-2004 at 10:02:22 AM -0800, Net Llama! said:
> > >
> > >>I built xfwm4 (from RC1) with the compositor option, however i can't 
> > >>figure out how to make it work, in terms of transparency.  i added the 
> > >>relevant section to xorg.conf, and i'm seeing the drop shadows, but i'm 
> > >>more interested in transparency than shadows.  am i missing something?
> > >
> > >
> > >And if you have an nvidia card, be sure to add this to the Device
> > >section for your card:
> > >
> > >    Option  "RenderAccel"   "true"
> > >
> > >I just discovered this today. It's nice to have such a quick, light,
> > >user-friendly desktop with this level of eye candy.
> > 
> > I assume this option requires the nvidia driver instead of the xorg?
> 
> I can't say I am 100% sure, as I have only ever used nvidia's drivers,
> but I would guess it requires them.

The default 'nv' driver does not provide any HW acceleration. You need
to use the nvidia driver to gain the performance increase using the
above option.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz