KDE4 effects Xrender vs OpenGL

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Sunday 08 February 2009 01:49:30 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Sáb 07 Fev 2009, Kevin Kofler escreveu:
> > Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> > > For reference, here's the "really crappy graphics driver" on my
> > > (cheap) laptop where XRender is smooth and nice and OpenGL is
> > > horribly slow:
> > >     Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
> > >     943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> >
> > Indeed, unfortunately, the Intel driver is suffering from several
> > regressions on older hardware (everything older than 965, it seems -
> > it works great on my i965 laptop). :-( It used not to be crappy...
> >
> > :-(
>
> With this relatively new chipset, it is also crappy:
> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>
> The regressions started to appear in F9/KDE4. Until F8, it was perfect
>
> :/ Currently, garbage often appear on screen at random places if desktop
>
> effects are enabled and open gl applications behave strangely when other
> windows are opened over or under them.
> I still didn't move on from F8 on my laptop because of this.

I don't know what happened to Intel driver :( I installed Fedora 10 to my 
friends desktop and it's really slow (no effects!) with red stripes all around 
the screen... I didn't have time to report it, next time I'll visit her I have 
to look at this issue. With DE on it's almost unusable. Same for my netbook - 
3D is incredibly slow (with older Xandros, it was OK)... Seems like 
proprietary NVidia blob is still best driver for Linux even with gazzilions of 
issues :( If you want more than basic 2d acceleration...

So now I'm not sure about defaulting DE on for F11 - or we should have first 
login dialog when user can choose - more effects, less effects as it was in 
3.x.

Jaroslav

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