On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 14:18 +1100, James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 03:31 +0100, thibaut bethune wrote: > > "No, you don't need 3D acceleration for this compositor, so cards with > > sucky GL will be able to use it. You will however need a good and fast > > XRender implementation. I'm using the both the binary NVidia driver > > and the opensource Intel driver. The NVidia driver works well, the > > Intel one (as shipped by Gutsy) works ok, but CPU usage can get high. > > I've been told the Fiesty Intel driver is quite slow" > > For those people with a NVidia card who either can't or don't want to > use the proprietary driver, the Nouveau driver works really well with > Metacity's compositing in my experience. > > In my experience, with the right card (nv4x based - geforce 6 or 7), nouveau is substantially faster than the proprietary driver at 2D. On the other hand, it's still under heavy development, regressions sometimes creep in, and you'll need a git snapshot of libdrm to drive it.
If you don't mind the (very) occasional terminal excursion to rescue X, I regularly build nouveau snapshots in my PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~raof/+archive (see also http://nouveau.freedesktop.org). If you do decide to try these drivers, please test the RandR12 codepath (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Randr12Howto) - this should soon be make default. (And then pushed into the kernel module, if I understand #nouveau correctly).
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