Does AIGLX work on FC5 + (updates or some of rawhide) yet?

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Tue Apr 11 23:33:55 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 18:06 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:02 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> 
> > I'm successfully running rawhide on my laptop (centrino w intel video
> > chipset) with the aiglx/bling enabled in GConf - last week it was
> > causing noticeable slowdown, but it's working great today (I'm not sure
> > which update fixed the speed issues): nice subtle dropshadows on
> > everything, plus totally over the top explosions when you minimize a
> > window (I'm not kidding!).  I'm also in the process of trying it out on
> > this box (yum update to rawhide in progress as I write...)
> > 
> > So, yes, it's available in rawhide, the only thing I had to do was set
> > the GConf key /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
> 
> So once you update to rawhide (all packages in the OS?), and turn on the
> compositing manager it works OK?

Yes - on one of my machines, with today's rawhide.  YMMV, of course.

But hey, it's rawhide...  my plan is to try to use it, enabled, on a
day-to-day basis; we'll see how stable it is...

Dave




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