From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF41A13988E for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 678D1E08F1; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27662E08EB for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTKho-0001iv-QD for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:08:21 +0200 Received: from 64.69.39.95 ([64.69.39.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:08:20 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.95 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:08:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off? Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 19:08:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20150822190812.1829f217@a6> References: <20150819191820.6aa6d015@a6> <20150822040841.1ffe9595@hal9000.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.95 X-Archives-Salt: dffa1f62-5f10-4a32-9b09-f1cf8d07777a X-Archives-Hash: 2d78c7e62a04f6071f191f54a56d8f11 On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:08:41 +0200 wrote: > I'm using XFCE as DE and xfwm4 as WM. Since I bought a new GPU (Radeon > R7 250), I don't use compositing any more because it causes tearing > when I watch videos in fullscreen with 3840x2160. With this GPU I > also had some random freezes when compositing was enabled. > > Beside this, performance is very good, regardless compositing is > enabled or disabled. Scrolling text or moving windows around is a bit > faster and smoother with compositing enabled, especially when other > windows are in the foreground. > > With my old GPU (Radeon HD4550) I always had compositing enabled. > Everything was smoother and I saw absolutely no glitches, but > performance was also good with compositing disabled, just not quite > as smooth as with I forgot about xf86-video-ati until you mentioned it, so I just emerged it and (I think) made all the changes needed to reconfigure Xorg to use it instead of fglrx. Maybe I'm just too tired right now to think straight, but the error messages I see in Xorg.log tell me that my video chip is not supported. But, in the process of switching to xf86-video-ati and then back again to fglrx I noticed this error message from xfwm4: "Error opening /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory" Correct, I have no /dev/dri directory. Do you have one?