Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Michal Žeravík" <michalz@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:38:51
Message-Id: 43E1D2AE.7010503@olomouc.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite by Kyle Liddell
1 Kyle Liddell wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:28:25AM +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
3 >
4 >> I have a 6600GT with nvidia's driver, screen updates are similar to
5 >> downloading a detailed picture from the internet with a 56k modem :+
6 >> I went through my log and found this:
7 >> (EE) GLX is not supported with the Composite extension
8 >> When I've got composite loaded I can't use glx anymore, which is not something
9 >> I want to miss.
10 >>
11 >
12 > You can still use GLX with composite, but there's another option you have to specify since it's supposedly broken on some things. (Now, I've never had any problems...but the most GL stuff I've done with it are XScreensaver and maybe UT/UT2k4.)
13 > Anyway, put this in your Device section of xorg.conf:
14 >
15 > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
16 >
17 >
18
19 I have experience with nvidia+xorg-6.8.2 with composite,
20 all properly configured, but with windows shadows
21 xsystem eats A LOT of memory. I have 1GB and overhead was really bad.
22 Any ideas how to keep memory consuming low with shadows ?
23
24 michal