[kde-freebsd] KDE SC 4.7.2

Max Brazhnikov makc at issp.ac.ru
Mon Oct 24 14:58:10 UTC 2011


On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:33:40 -0200, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> N V <VaNs9 at yandex.ru> writes:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Does it mean that if I want to have compositing and effects, I have to
> > stay at 4.6.5 until mesa/xorg is updated?
Don't expect this in a near future.

> Probably. This isn't really my area, but from the commit log KWin will
> simply ignore Mesa < 7.10 (it assumes this is the minimum version in
> which the drivers use KMS).

I suppose these changes doesn't not affect nvidia users. On my notebook with 
intel graphics simple effects like transparency still work after upgrade. Kwin 
reports:

OpenGL vendor string:                   Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string:                 Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string:                  1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.6.1)
Driver:                                 Software rasterizer
GPU class:                              Unknown
OpenGL version:                         1.4
Mesa version:                           7.6.1
X server version:                       1.7.7
Direct rendering:                       no
Requires strict binding:                yes
GLSL shaders:                           no
Texture NPOT support:                   limited


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