On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 05:41 +0000, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:22 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > What graphics card? Compiz runs fine on my ATI RV350 with the free > > radeon driver (well, what else?) and these patches: > > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~daenzer/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp/ > > > > You _need_ these for AIGLX compositing and a discrete graphics card > > (e.g. it's own memory). You will want to throw your nice shiny Powerbook > > across the room if you don't have them and you try to run Compiz or > > Beryl. Trust me. > > I am using the normal xorg packages in unstable and compiz works just > fine on my iBook with the ATi 9200. Am I missing something?
Not at this time, as nobody's ported the 3D driver patches to the r200 driver yet. > What should these patches provide? Instead of doing GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap by reading pixels from the pixmap then passing them to glTex(Sub)Image, which results in the 3D driver (re-)uploading the whole texture to video RAM regardless of how many pixels actually changed (which is only usable forcing pixmaps into system RAM with Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" / "FBTexPercent" "100", effectively disabling 2D acceleration with a compositing manager), they just point the 3D driver to the offscreen pixmap memory for direct texturing with EXA (not possible for various reasons with XAA). > The only "problem" I have is that on resume from sleep I get weird > artifacts around the gnome panel, but that's about it. Restarting compiz > makes them disappear. I think that should be fixed in xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.191-1 in experimental. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
