Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Tuesday 06 October 2015 15:03:28 Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2015 1:08 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> > Am 06.10.2015 um 07:47 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad:
> >> I think Plasma 5 uses OpenGL (hardware accelerated) shell, this is why
> >> display drivers have much more effect on it's stability (compared to
> 
> KDE4)
> 
> >> For your laptop, if you have hybrid graphics, probably you can disable
> >> the external GPU from the BIOS, this will give you better experience.
> > 
> > and how does that explain that i had KDE4 desktop effects also configured
> 
> on my IvyBridge/SandyBridge machines to use OpenGL and never saw effects
> like new windows sometimes appear first as a black rectangle until the
> window finally got displayed?
> 
> 
> I don't know the details, I might be wrong but probably the effects thing
> is different, they said "Fully Hardware-Accelerated Graphics Stack" in
> Plasma 5 announcement.
> 
> Mustafa
> 
So please tell us... what driver actually works

Eli

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