The Compositing feature ?

Niels Rasmussen nielsrasmus at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 21:02:49 CET 2007


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> A few possibilities:
> 
> 1.  You are using a video card and driver combination that doesn't
> support hardware acceleration of the X Render extension.
> 
> 2.  You don't have hardware Render acceleration enabled in your xorg
> config.
> 
> 3.  You're using the nvidia binary driver, which is known to have weird
> CPU-eating effects on some platforms with some configurations with some
> cards when the compositor is enabled.  (I was actually able to fix this
> on my machine by messing around in my BIOS setup... I think I changed
> "AGP Drive Strength" to... something else.  YMMV.)

Sorry forgot to tell you.

My Video card is a ATI X700.

My xorg.conf is here: http://pastebin.dk/index.php?show=3096

It works with compiz (another settings in xorg.conf) so it should works with
my video card.

Maybe some settings are missing ? I've followed the instructions in the FAQ.

-- 
/Niels
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