Re: KDE4 composite kwin + Intel GPU
On 2008-09-02, Jan Krajicek <j.krajicek@atlas.cz> wrote:
> 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 with XAA (which is obsolete) I can't play any videos with composite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.
I have no problems with using full effects on two machines, one being my
Eeepc 4g.
/Sune
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