From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVqIH-0003Yl-Ku for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59D24E04F1; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE9EE04F1 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id CF9B1211B15 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50191211877 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.6) with ESMTPSA id 36640003 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4 desktop effects Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (Linux/2.6.26.2r4; KDE/4.1.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <48AC2845.1000307@ercbroadband.org> <48AC3384.7010000@ercbroadband.org> In-Reply-To: <48AC3384.7010000@ercbroadband.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808201812.15074.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: ad1c31f0-9cb8-4ce5-b2f1-7f786d43d0a3 X-Archives-Hash: e113e4a88f2040b1fcb75bdb01dd1f9a On Mittwoch, 20. August 2008, Mark Haney wrote: > Beso wrote: > > this is due either to the driver not supporting something or some of its > > misconfigurations or to something missing (protos or libs in > > xorg-modular). it would be useful to see your xorg.conf, know what driver > > you're using and what board you're using, glxinfo output and what use > > confs you have on xorg-server and on your libdrm and x11-drm and what > > versions of these packages you're using. > > Ah, that might be the problem, I am using the opensource 'radeon' driver > for my laptop. I don't have drm enabled on this box because I never > could get the ATI driver to work. I bet that's the problem. > > Does the radeon driver have DRM? Last I read, it didn't. Or not very > well. yes it has. In fact forever. But not all radeons have dri enabled yet. The R600,R700 series have not dri yet. You need to check several things: opengl useflag set? xcomposite enabled? turn on drm/dri xorg.conf setup correctly are all libs that are needed installed. Like x11-libs/libXcomposite, x11- proto/compositeproto