[KDE 4.1.3] GUI effects without compositing

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras schrieb:
>> In KDE 3.5.10, I can have fading/animated menus and such (without 
>> compositing).  In KDE 4, I don't see any option to enable that.  I can't 
>> use compositing because it's too slow and unstable (since I have an 
>> ATI/AMD card).
> 
> Perhaps that doesn't solve your problem, but what card exactly do you have?

Radeon HD4870.  Running with Catalyst 8.12 drivers on Gentoo Linux AMD64.


> I have these cards:
> 
> AGP:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
> 
> PCI:
> 
> 02:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
> 02:05.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
> 
> And I have no performance problems with compositing effects enabled, 
> using "radeon" driver and "AccelMethod" "EXA" option in xorg.conf.

I used an 9800 many years back.  A fewer years back, an X1950XT.  They 
don't cut it anymore these days.  I remember though the X1950XT was nice 
with compositing and the open source radeon driver.  But that was not 
useful to me, since gaming performance (if games ran at all) was 
horrible with open source drivers.

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