Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4 desktop effects

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Beso wrote:

>>
> 
> well, the radeon driver for me works with compiz-fusion and kde4 (either
> emerald or kwin-decorator-4) and is fantastic. also drm, exa and 2d video
> playback is fantastic.
> the only drawback is the following:
> you'll need to use live ebuilds from the x11-overlay. i've been with them
> for about  6 months now and i can tell you that everything works very well
> (no instability or similar issues).
> before starting to use them i'd advice you to tell me what board you have
> and, since probably is equal to one of my 2 laptop boards (x200m rs480 or
> x12xx, rs690) i can pass you all the configs to have everything working. a
> full live xorg build (a partial one would cause you some instability issues)
> that includes xorg-protos, xorg-libs, xorg-server, mesa, drivers would take
> about 3-4 hours, but you might be forced to reinstall all kde4 after that
> (this happens often after a new rebuild of xorg-git) and so you'll still
> need around the old 3.5 installation. in fact i have compiz enabled by
> default on that one and i start it manually on kde4 since sometime it has
> some issues on startup with setting the kwindecorator4.
> if you'll tell me that you'll be willing to use this method i'll prepare a
> walkthrough of everything you'll need to install, in which order, what
> overlays you'll need to use (you'll want desktop-effects for compiz-fusion)
> and what options you'll want to enable and use on the board. to do
> everything in a fine way you'll probably take about one day of work
> (including xorg-modular rebuild and kde4 rebuild).
> also i reccomend the setup of portage-tmpfs on /tmpfs so that the
> compilation speed would drammatically increase.
> let me know if you're interested. if you're not then you won't be able to
> use any desktop effect (not on kde3.5 or on kde4) and since i find out some
> compiz effects very PRODUCTIVE for business environments (i didn't
> understood this until i've used compiz for about a week) it would be a shame
> not to use it.
> 

I am all for it.  Please enlighten me. My laptop has a Radeon XPress 
200M.  The box is a Compaq Presario R4000 and I"ve had it for about 3 
years now.  It's been the most rock solid laptop I've ever owned and it 
runs like a scalded dog on compiles.  I'm interested in getting all the 
info I can on getting this to work.


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