On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 20:43 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote: > On 08-Jun-2007 06:59.13 (BST), Jack Malmostoso wrote: > > > With 32MB (Radeon 9200) > > > I had to hack around DRI limits to run Beryl at 1240x1024 and then it > > > chockes an more than few windows. > > As I said, I use compiz and not beryl. I always had the feeling that > > Beryl was more cpu and gpu intensive. I suggest you try compiz instead. > > Actually, I find compiz quite clunky (Radeon 9250 on 1GHz G4 machine). > > Beryl seems to behave itself much more, but because of the lack of Debian > packages and wanting to keep up-to-date with unstable, I use metacity > instead. > > If the iBook has a Radeon M10, that's an r300 series GPU. I found compiz and > beryl to be particularly slow on the opensource r300_dri driver, and that's > on an Athlon 64 4000+ with a Radeon X850XT.
See the thread 'Beryl - do I dare?' from the end of April. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
