[KS] wrote:
Hello all, I was trying to enable translucency(in KDE) on my debian unstable box. After editing the xorg.conf for using the composite extension, I restarted X and it worked. However, I was a bit dismayed with the performance. It is so slow that I can actually "see" that KDE is trying to redraw a window. Are there any specific settings that I need to adjust to get a better performance? My system is a PIV 2.0GHz based machine with 256+512MB RAM and a Nvidia Geforce 5700LE (256MB vRAM), KDE is 3.5.2. ii libxcomposite1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X off-screen compositing library ii libxdamage1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X region 'damage' library
You need the proprietary nvidia driver (version 1.0-8xxx), then you can
activate the following two options in the device section of your
graphics card:
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
I just checked the nvidia website and it seems that there was a new
version of the driver (1.0-8756) released yesterday which enables these
options by default. AFAIK you have to set them yourself with older drivers.
If it works it will make all translucency/compositing effects much
faster; if it does not work it can lock up your computer. (Normally you
can still log in via ssh and kill X, or you can use "at" to make sure X
will get killed after five minutes when you try it for the first time.)
Regards,
Florian