KDE 4.10 KWin To Properly Support AMD Catalyst

[Awesomeness]

By the way, does Kwin 4.10 work with Wayland?

No and as long as Wayland itself is not actually working, there is no point it targeting it. KWin supports OpenGL ES2 which is the most important prerequisite for Wayland support. Now it’s the Wayland devs’ turn to get Wayland out of pre-alpha quality.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Well, that's kind of a funny situation. KWin now supports Catalyst. Catalyst no longer supports my graphics card. :\ Oh well, at least r600g is awesome.

Direct rendering fix also included into Catalyst Legacy driver.

Compiz - uses indirect rendering only
Gnome Shell - uses direct rendering only, which is why it was broken when you ran with fglrx
KWin - made it optional and defaulted fglrx to indirect rendering since it was broken otherwise

Gnome Shell was broken not only because of problems with direct rendering.

[ninez]

Compiz - uses indirect rendering only
Gnome Shell - uses direct rendering only, which is why it was broken when you ran with fglrx
KWin - made it optional and defaulted fglrx to indirect rendering since it was broken otherwise

Compiz can use Direct or Indirect rendering, and has had the option for many years. I haven't had to use indirect rendering in a really long time, but i think i still have a laptop kicking around with a radeon card that required the --indirect-rendering flag to be passed when starting compiz (or via compiz-icon option).

[GreatEmerald]

Talking about OpenGL, isn't it that in order to use some of the functions of more recent OGL versions, you have to use GLSL? That makes everything a lot more complicated if trying to do something simple, like a 2D game.

Direct rendering fix also included into Catalyst Legacy driver.

And when KDE 4.10 is released, the legacy driver will no longer support the kernel/X server of the day.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

And when KDE 4.10 is released, the legacy driver will no longer support the kernel/X server of the day.

Nobody stopping you from using KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1 with KDE 4.8 or 4.9 for example in Kubuntu LTS or Debian Wheezy, or from using radeon driver instead of fglrx in any dsitribution, etc.

[curaga]

Talking about OpenGL, isn't it that in order to use some of the functions of more recent OGL versions, you have to use GLSL? That makes everything a lot more complicated if trying to do something simple, like a 2D game.

True, many of the recent functions aren't available in GL ASM (they are in Nvidia ASM extensions though). But to say that one doing a simple 2d game would prefer GL ASM to GLSL is, well, a bit uncommon

Or did you mean GLSL compared to fixed pipe?