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 1KVpuB-0001wZ-5B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94D78E04CE; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ercbroadband.org (mail.ercbroadband.org [152.53.1.9]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55266E04CE for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:46:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) Exchange SpamAssassin Sink (www.christopherlewis.com) 1.2.76 on chapman.ercbroadband.local X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=7.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Thread-Index: AckC2/RTsPEagOQPRwaG8FQbxOqzmw== Received: from [192.168.10.35] ([192.168.10.35] RDNS failed) by mail.ercbroadband.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:57 -0400 Message-ID: <48AC3C32.7050906@ercbroadband.org> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:54 -0400 From: "Mark Haney" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4325 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080619) 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 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4 desktop effects References: <48AC2845.1000307@ercbroadband.org> <48AC2EA4.7030502@ercbroadband.org> <48AC3384.7010000@ercbroadband.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2008 15:45:57.0149 (UTC) FILETIME=[D63264D0:01C902DB] X-Archives-Salt: 7cebcbfe-e187-46fa-9bc2-b852a81726e9 X-Archives-Hash: ffc79842377bd6ba9f6a95ab5bea5396 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. -- Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support