From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9OTc-0000BQ-DM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:21:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1FFJagR029679; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:19:36 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1FFBsC4026655 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:11:54 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i23so1326882wra for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:11:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fg+jS8GeISa47VyupbNs4ic+NEfOVH5aW20ThreGh0tM+uvFkC1EtkzyCdLelXlq9+jQnjvdsL7R+By5v7u8xN6irGEyJUB8TiNVqxScB1aK65CTQLKgC7VJkvgJzLGfXJJAu1ouSgDj1OPnu1P6W6Er93FPqRu4mJdV7C7ur0k= Received: by 10.54.106.2 with SMTP id e2mr872120wrc; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.67.19 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:11:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640602150711y12f75aebj30ff5d0b71ebae55@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:11:53 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again) In-Reply-To: <1140007446.10029.6.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1139873701.9827.10.camel@orpheus> <1139926292.16084.4.camel@orpheus> <7573e9640602141409o32e36ad5te9f3c484e9ae08ae@mail.gmail.com> <200602141806.24906.krakrjak@volumehost.net> <1140007446.10029.6.camel@orpheus> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1FFBsC4026655 X-Archives-Salt: 8abf75bd-b246-44ce-af8f-6e4b6b2be63d X-Archives-Hash: 0ebb07ab0d50cf503ef72cada6de3d02 On 2/15/06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > is this what everyone else sees with translucency? No. I just got a new Dell E1705 with an NVidia Go 7800, and the transparency effects with composite look beautiful. Menus, moving windows, the transitions between inactive and active windows, etc are all smooth and responsive. It does seem a bit unstable, sometimes it will start to slow down and take a lot of CPU time for no apparent reason. I switch between turning the effects on and off... But before my Dell, I had a laptop with an ATI X600 in it. I had the same problems as you. As I said before, the ATI fglrx drivers do _not_ support composite. You can try with the radeon driver if you want to see the software emulation, but it will be slow. V...e....r....y, .....v........e............r............y...........................s..........l...........o................o.................w. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list