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thunderwolf318

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Registered: 2005-05-30

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Ati composit

Im using a ati redeon 9800 pro with the ati drivers and I have composit enabled in xorg.conf. I have translucancy enabled in the kde controle panel. But for some reason I get this nice little screen

CyberTron

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From: Gotland ,Sweden

Registered: 2005-03-17

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Re: Ati composit

i am not 100% sure, but I believe that ATI / ati-driver aren't ready to use the composite module, nvidia is a better choice although it is not stable on nvidia either

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arooaroo

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Registered: 2005-01-13

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Re: Ati composit

I agree with CyberTron. It's been a few months since I last tried. Back then, the composit functionality was pants.

I got screens looking very much like what you posted.

If ATI had improved in this respect, I'm sure there would be a lot of press about it. There hasn't. Therefore, I assume it's still pants.

I dumped the ATI drivers a while back in favour of the bog-standard xorg drivers. ATI's were still buggy even for plain old 2d. I don't do any 3d stuff, so I didn't need the acceleration. I would love the compositing eye-candy though.

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thunderwolf318

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Registered: 2005-05-30

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Re: Ati composit

i havent run into a bug yet  (besides this one)

Jacob

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Registered: 2005-03-19

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Re: Ati composit

Im using a ati redeon 9800 pro with the ati drivers and I have composit enabled in xorg.conf. I have translucancy enabled in the kde controle panel. But for some reason I get this nice little screen

I too am using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card, and it looks just as funky as your screenshot when I enable Composite. ;(

Jacob

thunderwolf318

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Registered: 2005-05-30

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Re: Ati composit

I guess we will have to live without composite

CyberTron

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From: Gotland ,Sweden

Registered: 2005-03-17

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Re: Ati composit

well..you could try xfce4.2 (or was it 4.4?) or enlightenment 16.8 (in the aur)

they have builtin composite managers that might work...

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Enlightenment 17

thunderwolf318

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Registered: 2005-05-30

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Re: Ati composit

do you know how they deal with duel deaktops?

CyberTron

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Registered: 2005-03-17

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Re: Ati composit

they should work flawless (e16.8 does that anyway)

dualhead setups (xinerama ?!) is part of the standard for wm's and DE's...although not all have included it anyway..but xfce4 and enlightenment works with dual head

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thunderwolf318

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Registered: 2005-05-30

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Re: Ati composit

Im not using xinerama. I just have the ati drivers runing them as 2 different desktops. Last time I tryed xfce4 it didnt work well with it.

Also,  e16 does close to the same thing but its not as bad as kde.