xgl or aiglx? [solved]

tony5429 · 2007-09-06 19:04:57

in the past, i have used xgl+beryl and been very pleased with the results. i plan on installing compiz-fusion when it goes stable. however, i wonder if i should stick with xgl or switch to aiglx... my system is an amd athlon 64 x2 6000+, 2GB DDR2, pci-e NVIDIA Geforce 8600GT. what are the advantages/disadvantages of xgl versus aiglx?

Last edited by tony5429 (2007-09-06 20:32:17)

miggols99 · 2007-09-06 19:29:36

With AIGLX you don't have to have a separate session, games work much better and (is most of the time) faster. I would use AIGLX since you have a Nvidia card.

Cerebral · 2007-09-06 19:31:55

miggols99 wrote:

I would use AIGLX since you have a Nvidia card.

Next month radeon cards will have Aiglx support in their proprietary drivers too.

tony5429 · 2007-09-06 20:16:24

Hmm.. actually, I just read on http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … _Composite this...

"If you have an NVIDIA, install the latest NVIDIA drivers. See How to install NVIDIA driver if you still don't use it. Their newer versions (>= 96xx) support the long awaited "GLX_Texture_From_Pixmap" extension."

I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers right now.

Do I even need to install AIGLX then, or can I just run "nvidia-xconfig --composite --add-argb-glx-visuals" instead??

fwojciec · 2007-09-06 20:22:02

tony5429 wrote:

Do I even need to install AIGLX then, or can I just run "nvidia-xconfig --composite --add-argb-glx-visuals" instead??

You don't need AIGLX for compiz-fusion if you use Nvidia. I don't know what nvidia-xconfig options accomplish this, but this is what I have in my xorg.conf and compiz works without problems:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Card0"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Option          "NvAGP"                 "1"
        Option          "NoLogo"                "True"
        Option          "RenderAccel"           "True"
        Option          "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
        Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals"     "True"
        Option          "NoPowerConnectorCheck"
        Option          "UseEdidFreqs"          "True"
        Option          "backingstore"          "True"
        Option          "TripleBuffer"          "True"
        Option          "DPI"                   "98x101"
EndSection

And of course something like this:

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

Probably not all of this is actually required, but anyways...

Last edited by fwojciec (2007-09-06 20:27:46)

tony5429 · 2007-09-06 20:32:06

wow; sounds great - thanks for all the help everyone! looks like nvidia's gone and actually listened to the OS community again; kudos to them too! i'll give the command from the wiki a shot first and if i run into problems, make changes to my xorg.conf so it looks like yours, fwojciec. thanks again!

Cerebral · 2007-09-07 03:27:40

fwojciec wrote:

You don't need AIGLX for compiz-fusion if you use Nvidia. I don't know what nvidia-xconfig options accomplish this, but this is what I have in my xorg.conf and compiz works without problems:

AIGLX is built into X, so unless you've explicitly disabled it in your xorg.conf, you're probably using it and not even realizing it.

fwojciec · 2007-09-07 03:52:17

Cerebral wrote:

AIGLX is built into X, so unless you've explicitly disabled it in your xorg.conf, you're probably using it and not even realizing it.

I thought that might be the case - I should have double-checked before writing... Anyways, thanks for the clarification.

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#1 2007-09-06 19:04:57

xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#2 2007-09-06 19:29:36

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#3 2007-09-06 19:31:55

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#4 2007-09-06 20:16:24

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#5 2007-09-06 20:22:02

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#6 2007-09-06 20:32:06

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#7 2007-09-07 03:27:40

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

#8 2007-09-07 03:52:17

Re: xgl or aiglx? [solved]

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