Poor composting performance in KDE 4.3

[Dotan Cohen]

> Which drivers are you using?  If you use AMD Catalyst (Ubuntu calls them
> "restricted"), you need to make sure you run the latest version, 9.10
> Ubuntu beta:
>
>   http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzUxNA
>
> Old version have plenty of bugs with compositing.
>

Interesting, thanks. I recently saw an article on Phoronix where the
FOSS driver beat the proprietary driver in almost every benchmark. I
believe that this system is using the FOSS driver as I've never
touched it.


> Also, some things are going to be slow regardless (window maximizing and
> resizing) unless you patch your X.Org server:
>
>   http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18807
>
> since the driver doesn't accelerate those operations correctly.
>

I think that does not apply to the FOSS driver.


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