Comments on: Upgrading to Xorg-X11 7.3 with ati-drivers 8.42.3 on Gentoo

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:00:22 +0000

Yes, I do. After going back to xorg-x11, have you tried
“eselect opengl set ati”? Or perhaps switch back to xorg-x11 and then back to ati again. I wonder if you still need to recompile some other dependency.

Compiz does work with direct rendering for xorg-server = 1.3 but even with direct rendering, it isn’t as fast as it ought to be. I’m hoping the next driver fixes that.

By: David Richings

David Richings — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:09:07 +0000

Dennis

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I still get the “GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing” error using xorg-server 1.3.0.0-r2. This seems to force indirect-rendering on compiz-fusion which in turn causes unusably slow scrolling and video playback.

Do you have direct rendering enabled with compiz.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:43:30 +0000

That is correct. I actually wrote a follow up post about that too. If you want compiz-fusion, you’ll need to stick to xorg-server 1.3. Perhaps the next ati release will solve the issue. This driver does support xorg-x11-7.3 by the way, just not with compiz.

By: Klaus Keppler

Klaus Keppler — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:22:38 +0000

HI!

Thanks for this artical, one question:

“the new ati-drivers don’t support compiz when using xorg-server 1.4.”

Work “compiz-fusion”?

Thanks