Question about KDE 4.2

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2009 19:48:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2009 18:23:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> David Carlos Manuelda wrote:
> >>>> For example, since I click the K button to raise menu until the menu
> >>>> is raised, it is a second or two. The same when running dolphin and
> >>>> clicking in folders for example. I don't note this too much while
> >>>> running them inside a 3.5.10.
> >>>
> >>> I've never seen such operations take more than an instant, regardless
> >>> of which DE is in use.
> >>>
> >>> I would venture there's a different explanation other than the general
> >>> "kde4 is slower".
> >>
> >> This happens if compositing is enabled and a binary-only, proprietary
> >> NVidia or ATI driver is used or if EXA acceleration is not enabled (in
> >> the case of open source drivers; the proprietary ones don't support
> >> EXA.)
> >
> > I'm using the free ATi driver and cannot use Desktop Effects without
> > random freezes.  How is this EXA enabled?
>
> Section "Device"
>    Option      "UseAtomBIOS" "true"
>    Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>    # ...
> EndSection
>
> This works with both the radeon as well as the radeonhd driver but only
> with cards up to an X1950.  HD2xxx and above aren't supported yet.
>
So the X600 should be OK.  Does that "UseAtomBIOS" apply to all these older 
cards?

Anne
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