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Beso wrote: |
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> well, the radeon driver for me works with compiz-fusion and kde4 (either |
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> emerald or kwin-decorator-4) and is fantastic. also drm, exa and 2d video |
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> playback is fantastic. |
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> the only drawback is the following: |
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> you'll need to use live ebuilds from the x11-overlay. i've been with them |
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> for about 6 months now and i can tell you that everything works very well |
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> (no instability or similar issues). |
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> before starting to use them i'd advice you to tell me what board you have |
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> and, since probably is equal to one of my 2 laptop boards (x200m rs480 or |
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> x12xx, rs690) i can pass you all the configs to have everything working. a |
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> full live xorg build (a partial one would cause you some instability issues) |
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> that includes xorg-protos, xorg-libs, xorg-server, mesa, drivers would take |
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> about 3-4 hours, but you might be forced to reinstall all kde4 after that |
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> (this happens often after a new rebuild of xorg-git) and so you'll still |
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> need around the old 3.5 installation. in fact i have compiz enabled by |
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> default on that one and i start it manually on kde4 since sometime it has |
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> some issues on startup with setting the kwindecorator4. |
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> if you'll tell me that you'll be willing to use this method i'll prepare a |
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> walkthrough of everything you'll need to install, in which order, what |
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> overlays you'll need to use (you'll want desktop-effects for compiz-fusion) |
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> and what options you'll want to enable and use on the board. to do |
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> everything in a fine way you'll probably take about one day of work |
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> (including xorg-modular rebuild and kde4 rebuild). |
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> also i reccomend the setup of portage-tmpfs on /tmpfs so that the |
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> compilation speed would drammatically increase. |
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> let me know if you're interested. if you're not then you won't be able to |
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> use any desktop effect (not on kde3.5 or on kde4) and since i find out some |
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> compiz effects very PRODUCTIVE for business environments (i didn't |
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> understood this until i've used compiz for about a week) it would be a shame |
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> not to use it. |
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I am all for it. Please enlighten me. My laptop has a Radeon XPress |
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200M. The box is a Compaq Presario R4000 and I"ve had it for about 3 |
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years now. It's been the most rock solid laptop I've ever owned and it |
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runs like a scalded dog on compiles. I'm interested in getting all the |
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info I can on getting this to work. |
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