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jjjaime

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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[SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

I've posted a bug in KDE because the KDE images are not rendered correctly:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202829

You can see an image of my desktop at:
https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=35921

As someone suggests, and I also agree with him, it would be a driver problem. My graphic card is "ATI Radeon X1950 Pro" and I'm using the "xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2" driver. I know that there are other possibilities according to this wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
I already tested them with KDE4.2 and xf86-video-ati provided the best result for me.

Someone with an ATI card has the same problem? Which driver would you suggest to me?

Thank you

Last edited by jjjaime (2009-08-06 19:04:12)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

No problem here, xf86-video-ati, X1600.

Try xf86-video-ati-git as well.

Last edited by flamelab (2009-08-06 18:17:39)

jjjaime

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

I've just tested xf86-video-radeonhd with the same bad result. Only if I remove:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

then the images are rendered correctly but not all of them. I also had to apply the (same) icons in System Settings -> Appearance. However, it's clear than I don't have the "desktop effects". Although I don't use them, I still want them. Before the upgrade from KDE 4.2 to KDE 4.3, it worked ok.

I will test the git version suggested by flamelab.

flamelab

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

Also try to delete xorg.conf and login without it.

jjjaime

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

Thank flamelab for your help.

The xf86-video-ati-git:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15374
fixed all my problems. Probably you've heard about it Now, I don't have any rendering problem and I have enabled the Desktop effects. I tested it with and without the xorg.conf file. Both of them worked, but without the file I don't have my keyboard in Spanish.

I read that it was possible the KMS support. I tested it by changing from graphical to text mode but it takes some time so I guess that it's not enabled. Is there any way to test KMS?

Is it possible to upgrade the AUR driver to the official repository? Meanwhile, I will comment my problem in the KDE site.

Best regards,
Jaime

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

The -git driver, yes, it does support KMS. But it is relativelly difficult to build the appropriate packages (kernel26-git, mesa-git, libdrm-git). As I have seen, KMS support is already stable enough, and we are going to see many improvements after kernel 2.6.31 will be released.

For now, you just have a KMS aware driver, it doesn't use KMS

For the Keyboard, it is better to configure it through System Settings so that you can login without an xorg.conf and without having the fear that keyboard layout hasn't been configured.

Last edited by flamelab (2009-08-06 19:34:21)