Re: xcompmgr and KDE

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>

[email protected] wrote:
> Quoting Elias Pouloyiannis <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
>>i am using KDE CVS version 20040117 (or whatever)
>>
>>Although using xcompmgr with other DE (plain such as afterstep, etc) works 
>>smoothly, using it with KDE will lock the xserver
>>
>>xcompmgr outputs in a loop:
>>
>>error 3 request 3 minor 0
>>error 9 request 138 minor 4
>>error 9 request 141 minor 1
>>error 3 request 20 minor 0
>>error 136 request 138 minor 7
>>
>>and it will keep on giving the above untill i try to move a window.
>>At the first move attempt it will segfault and lock the xserver
>>
>>I know that thing are still under heavy development but i don't get why i 
>>don't get the same behaviour with afterstep for example
> 
> 
> I haven't tried this myself, but I think this might be the issue.  KDE can use
> xrender to draw its "transparent" menus and such.  Would this cause any
> problems with rendering to memory?? or conflicts with xcompmng use of xrender?
> 
> just a thought, its the only thing i can think of, i'm just a newb, so i'm
> probably way out of line in my thinking.

A while ago I had my KDE running with the new Xserver (Xvesa) but the 
desktop was unusably slow (but it worked) so I went back to the default 
install. I tried Xati in hope it would use the hardware (I'm running a 
Radeon 9500pro here) but right after starting Xati my machine froze. Is 
it already possible to run the Xserver hardware accelerated on a Radeon 
card and if so are there any additional software requirements? (I read 
something about DRI,DRM and Mesa on the ML)

Regards,
   Dennis
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