Bug#412069: patch for beryl support
Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:54:58PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
>>> + Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "On"
>>>
>> I thought this option was nVidia specific.
>
> According to the wiki [1], it is "optional if NVIDIA drivers are used".
This comment is for "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps". I could say ok to adding
this option since I remember seeing improvement in Compiz when enabling
it on my Radeon. But, I don't know what its drawbacks are.
About being nVidia specific, I was talking about the other line,
"AddARGBGLXVisuals", I have no idea what this option does.
>
> On my Intel chipset, this line didn't break anything.
So you think we should add nVidia crap to anybody's xorg.conf just
because there are some users of these evil non-free drivers out there ? :)
Anyway, as long as nobody explained the drawbacks of these options (and
there are probably some, or they would be enabled by default), there is
no way this is going to be enabled by default, sorry. It is important to
keep the default config working on most boards, including the old ones
that might not support Compiz/Beryl at all for some reason (for instance
their video memory could not be large enough to store offscreenpixmaps?).
Brice
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