Minimal X Config File and Compiz

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Wed Sep 13 12:34:17 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 02:10 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > tir, 12 09 2006 kl. 14:08 -0400, skrev Jesse Keating:
> >> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:37, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> >>> Sorry, I should have phrased it better. I know how to enable it by hand.
> >>> My question was about the self configuring X and if it was supposed to
> >>> be enabling composite/dri/whatever-compiz-needs automatically.
> >> A default install for me on i386, I haven't touched xorg.conf other than to 
> >> change from i810 to intel.  I yum installed compiz, restarted X for the intel 
> >> driver, and used system -> preferences -> more -> Desktop Effects and enabled 
> >> it.  I get compiz goodness.
> > 
> > Worked entirely out of the box using my r300 based ATI Radeon 9600XT
> > card. No changes required. However my monitor isn't correctly detected
> > (IBM P92) so there's a slight offset and I believe the resolution is set
> > to high, I handled that in the desktop session so it only looks silly
> > during boot and gdm.
> 
> Did you solve the Firefox scrolling issue with compiz on an r300 based 
> card? Firefox becomes unusably slow over here (Radeon 9500pro) when I 
> switch to compiz but the effects themselves work smoothly.
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
> 

I see the same thing with the R100. Firefox scrolling is unbearable and
so is gnome-terminal scrolling, especially full screen.

tjb
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