ATI Drivers 10.6 / Radeon HD 5000 series - no compositing?

[adamk]

I noticed in your xorg.conf you have 3 device sections 1 for the vesa driver, 1 for nvidia and 1 for fglrx... any reason in particular you need vesa ? Also are you trying to run both an Ati and a nvidia card in the same rig ?

Like pete910 above I'm on Mandriva, 2010.1 Rc3 64 bit to be precise,
and I've had no issue enabling kwin on kde 4.4.3 with the cat 10.4-10.6 drivers.

His ServerLayout section is only using a single screen tied to the fglrx driver. There's no harm in having extra Device sections if they aren't being used.

Adam

[spoc]

I am using compositing with metacity.
After an upgrade to cat 10.6 transparency is OK and overall delay decreased. But. Cairo-dock stopped render correctly.
Going to downgrade until stuff works again.

[ayqazi]

I noticed in your xorg.conf you have 3 device sections 1 for the vesa driver, 1 for nvidia and 1 for fglrx... any reason in particular you need vesa ? Also are you trying to run both an Ati and a nvidia card in the same rig ?

Like pete910 above I'm on Mandriva, 2010.1 Rc3 64 bit to be precise,
and I've had no issue enabling kwin on kde 4.4.3 with the cat 10.4-10.6 drivers.

I leave multiple device sections lying around for when I switch video cards / need to enable the VESA driver in an emergency. I'm very protective about my xorg.conf, and am a bit annoyed that aticonfig goes in and screws up the order of the sections... oh well.


Thanks for all the replies guys, looks like I can stop trying to get KDE 4.4 and fglrx working together, and can use the radeon driver to get OpenGL compositing instead.... and I was having such fun with the Unigine demo and hardware tessellation using fglrx, oh well

Thanks

[adamk]

Thanks for all the replies guys, looks like I can stop trying to get KDE 4.4 and fglrx working together, and can use the radeon driver to get OpenGL compositing instead....

Except that you can't. Not on an HD5xxx card. There's only 2D modesetting available in the radeon driver.

What happens if you put this in the [Compositing] section of your ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc file:

AnimationSpeed=3
Backend=OpenGL
CheckIsSafe=true
DisableChecks=false
Enabled=false
GLDirect=false
GLMode=TFP
GLTextureFilter=0
GLVSync=true
HiddenPreviews=5
XRenderSmoothScale=false

And then restart KDE?

Adam

[ayqazi]

Except that you can't. Not on an HD5xxx card. There's only 2D modesetting available in the radeon driver.

Hrm.. didn't pick that up from the talk on the thread......

And XRender mode crashes if I try to use it, so that's a no-go as well..

What happens if you put this in the [Compositing] section of your ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc file:

AnimationSpeed=3
Backend=OpenGL
CheckIsSafe=true
DisableChecks=false
Enabled=false
GLDirect=false
GLMode=TFP
GLTextureFilter=0
GLVSync=true
HiddenPreviews=5
XRenderSmoothScale=false

And then restart KDE?

Adam

I will try that soon...... thanks.