[gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using kde-3.5.0. I 
setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it is really beautifull.. 
BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and crashes all the time. It crashes 
x. My system is Dell 8600, with an nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to 
date including teh nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.

Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Tom Martin]

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:35:09 -0500
"Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org> wrote:

> Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using
> kde-3.5.0. I setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it
> is really beautifull.. BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and
> crashes all the time. It crashes x. My system is Dell 8600, with an
> nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to date including teh
> nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.

For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and
Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is
likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment,
you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably.

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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 06:13, Tom Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:35:09 -0500
>
> "Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org> wrote:
> > Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using
> > kde-3.5.0. I setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it
> > is really beautifull.. BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and
> > crashes all the time. It crashes x. My system is Dell 8600, with an
> > nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to date including teh
> > nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.
>
> For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and
> Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is
> likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment,
> you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably.
Thanks, Will try today. 
I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for 
another thing I read somewhare that OO-org  2 has a problem with 
transparency..

Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work?

Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Kenton Groombridge]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:

>>For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and
>>Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is
>>likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment,
>>you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably.
>>    
>>
>Thanks, Will try today. 
>I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for 
>another thing I read somewhare that OO-org  2 has a problem with 
>transparency..
>
>Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work?
>
>Mike
>  
>
kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can 
run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes.

Ken

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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:14, Kenton Groombridge wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> >>For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and
> >>Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is
> >>likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment,
> >>you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably.
> >
> >Thanks, Will try today.
> >I am not really sure if I am running any progs that require glx? And for
> >another thing I read somewhare that OO-org  2 has a problem with
> >transparency..
> >
> >Also do I need xcompmgr or will kompmgr work?
> >
> >Mike
>
> kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can
> run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes.
>
> Ken
is this with nvidia?  Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW?

send me your xorg.conf offlist?

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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Kenton Groombridge]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:

>> kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can
>>
>>run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes.
>>
>>Ken
>>    
>>
>is this with nvidia?  Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW?
>
>send me your xorg.conf offlist?
>
>Mike
>  
>
I have a BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC.  Pretty beefy card, so I don't know 
if that has anything to do with it, but it runs quite fast and is very 
usable.  I put my xorg.conf in my webstorage.  Here is a link:

http://webpages.charter.net/kgroombr/xorg.conf

Good luck,
Ken
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Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Friday 06 January 2006 17:03, Kenton Groombridge wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> >> kompmgr works OK here, but I do find there are some quirks, but I can
> >>
> >>run GLX programs with kompmgr and nothing crashes.
> >>
> >>Ken
> >
> >is this with nvidia?  Loading glx. is it REALLY SLOW?
> >
> >send me your xorg.conf offlist?
> >
> >Mike
>
> I have a BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC.  Pretty beefy card, so I don't know
> if that has anything to do with it, but it runs quite fast and is very
> usable.  I put my xorg.conf in my webstorage.  Here is a link:
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/kgroombr/xorg.conf
>
> Good luck,
> Ken
Thanks Ken,
I pasted your options into my xorg.config file and it works great! The only 
thing in can figure is I must have had some silly syntax error or something.

Mike
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