On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote:
Do you have desktop effects enabled? I found that my system is much more stable with desktop effects turned off [1]. My video is ATI [2] with driver 'ati' [3].
Footmarks:
- ~]$ uptime
10:27:28 up 3 days, 9:22, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.22, 0.18 2. ~]$ lspci [--SNIP--] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) 3. ati - Vendor-supplied driver for ati cards
I do have an ATI card. I'll try turning off desktop effects. Removing glx-utils removes all of compiz!
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had about equal numbers of people tell me that the vendor driver is vastly more stable than the built-in driver, and totally the opposite.
Oh, and some fundamentalist open source fanatics who tell me it's better to crash a few times a day than use a closed source driver. ;-)
The only "desktop effect" of interest to me is stability.
Agreed on your final point. Just for grins, I'm downloading and will try the Radeon X300 drivers directly from ATI with Compiz enabled.