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Am Wednesday, 3. September 2008 schrieb Jan Krajicek: > Hi, > > Is there someone here using KDE 4 with composite effects on an Intel GPU? > If so, which AccelMethod (configured in xorg.conf in the "Device" section) > are you using, "EXA" (the default) or "XAA"? > > I tried the KDE 4 backported packages for Lenny and I'm having some issues > with composite effects on this laptop (integrated Intel GPU), the default > EXA AccelMethod has terrible performance (even with tweaks > like "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" that were suggested somewhere), and > with XAA (which is obsolete) I can't play any videos with composite > effects on, as both xine and mplayer crash with BadAlloc errors. > > I found some seemingly relevant bugs on various trackers, it's hard to say > if the problem is in KDE, X, or the intel driver (there are probably > multiple issues), I'm wondering if someone actually has it working. KWin, composite, Intel, bad performance are all keywords that match for me, see my post on the 2nd of August to this list (6 pm UTC). I for my part have given up right now and enjoy KDE4 without animations. Do keep us updated though once you find a solution. Chris |