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Re: desktop effects on PowerPC



Am Sonntag 06 September 2009 17:56:40 schrieb drz:
> Hi there
> 
> I got a problem here with desktop effects on 4.3.1 on a Powerbook g4
>  (powerbook 5,4 / ATI Technologies Inc RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10).
> 
> If I activate desktop effects the x-server crashes without a possibility to
> recover, because I cant change to tty (via alt ctrl f1), no reaction from
> keyboard.
> Thee is an striped artifact instead of the mouse-pointer icon, thats the
>  only symptom, I can tell of. No log entries in xorg.log nor messages or
>  syslog...
> 
> Same problem with kde 4.2.2. No effects since 4.1.
> 
> Compiz is working. So compositing is working fine, I guess.
> But I cant set compositing to active in system settings -> desktop.
> 
> fyi: Im using radeon-driver, because there is no fglrx for PowerPC.
> xserver-xorg = 7.3+20
> xserver-xorg-core = 1.4.2-11
> 
> Is it possible to get effects to work with radeon driver?
> 
> Anybody got desktop effects working on a powerbook g4??
> 
> I can provide any further info if needed & possible.
> 
> greetz
> drz
> 
so nobodys got an idea? Should I report a bug?
No powerbook g4 users here?

drz
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