phate Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 I have an Nvidia card and I installed the drivers... I followed this tut -------------------------------------------- Software xorg Compositing With FC3t2 compositing can be enabled and used to add shadows to windows and making them transparent. Because it is very slow the practical use at the moment is limited to making pretty screenshots. Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection After restarting xorg, compositing will be enabled (you'll know because xorg will be much slower). At the moment Gnome does not support compositing, so you'll need two small applications to demo this: cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps login [No password needed, just press return] cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps co transset cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps co xcompmgr cd xcompmgr export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/ ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install cd ../transset make sudo cp transset /usr/X11R6/bin/ You can now turn on compositing with: xcompmgr -cfC Note that with the Bluecurve theme the borders seem to get translucent and only the menus get shadows. To make a window 40% transparent, start: transset .4 the cursor will change into a cross. Click on the window to which you want to apply the transparency setting. ---------------------------------------------------- and it was being REALLY REALLY slow.. i dont think it should be. and X kept on crashing or somthing. any idea awhats goin on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Thats just the state of the program atm afaik.... gotta wait for more development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 ah, (forgot this should be in customisation forum for linux). Does it work better for KDE? or what other things can i get other then KDE or Gnome. preferable somthing LIKE gnome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted February 24, 2005 Veteran Share Posted February 24, 2005 ah, (forgot this should be in customisation forum for linux). Does it work better for KDE? or what other things can i get other then KDE or Gnome. preferable somthing LIKE gnome. 585528739[/snapback] No, this is completely seperate from GNOME and KDE, so it will perform about the same whichever window manager you're using. Oh, and... moved here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 It shouldn't be that slow if you have a nvidia card with the nvidia drivers installed. Try adding Option "RenderAccel" "on" to your device section (the place where you set Driver "nvidia") in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I don't see any performance difference when using composite here (besides being likely to crash when using GLX). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkz Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 (edited) It shouldn't be that slow if you have a nvidia card with the nvidia drivers installed. Try adding Option "RenderAccel" "on" to your device section (the place where you set Driver "nvidia") in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.I don't see any performance difference when using composite here (besides being likely to crash when using GLX). 585529377[/snapback] yeah, you said what I wanted to say. btw I have no problems at all with that compositing stuff, except a little font weirdness (almost fixed), and no quake3 at all :happy: Edited February 25, 2005 by darkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 You also can try Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" along with the Option "Composite" "on" so GLX works when composite is enabled (ie. Quake3 :) ), but don't get surprised if your system crashes (or maybe just the X server). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 No, this is completely seperate from GNOME and KDE, so it will perform about the same whichever window manager you're using.Oh, and... moved here. 585528858[/snapback] Well on both my systems, Metacity (Gnome's window manager) causes very bad performance, titlebar 'flickering' and almost constant X server crashes. XFCE4's window manager works fine for me with no stability issues. YMMV, of course. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 yeah, you said what I wanted to say. btw I have no problems at all with that compositing stuff, except a little font weirdness (almost fixed), and no quake3 at all :happy: 585529961[/snapback] You also can try Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" along with the Option "Composite" "on" so GLX works when composite is enabled (ie. Quake3 :) ), but don't get surprised if your system crashes (or maybe just the X server). 585530053[/snapback] How exactly do i do these things? I know how to get into my xorg.conf file and edit it but not sure what format them two options should be in when i'm adding them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted February 25, 2005 Veteran Share Posted February 25, 2005 How exactly do i do these things? I know how to get into my xorg.conf file and edit it but not sure what format them two options should be in when i'm adding them 585531815[/snapback] Simply add what is in green as lines in your xorg.conf, in the device section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Okay thanks. Do that when i get back from school :) edit: do i add this the same way? You also can try Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" along with the Option "Composite" "on" so GLX works when composite is enabled (ie. Quake3 ), but don't get surprised if your system crashes (or maybe just the X server). and to the same section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 This is how I have it: Section "Device" # no known options #BusID Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" Option "TwinView" "false" # Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50" # Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60" # Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1024x768" # Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B" # Option "TVOutFormat" "RCA" # Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" # Option "UBB" "True" # Option "WindowFlip" "True" Option "NoLogo" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "on" Option "NvAGP" "3" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" EndSection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" EndSection tjhis is what I have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 26, 2005 Author Share Posted February 26, 2005 Okay so i got it working... but no shadows... but its fading and stuff.. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 You also can try Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1" along with the Option "Composite" "on" so GLX works when composite is enabled (ie. Quake3 ), but don't get surprised if your system crashes (or maybe just the X server). this command didnt work... are you sure its right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 The option is correct, only that maybe it goes in the device section instead of under Extensions. I haven't really checked GLX with composite anyway, I rather disable composite than see how the thing crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-n-t Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 it goes under device... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Thanks. all working nicely now. you guys are teh win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Veteran Posted March 2, 2005 Veteran Share Posted March 2, 2005 Excuse me while jump in here: Are these extra eye candy tricks supported in most all video cards or are some chipsets not supported? I have seen where xorg is going to work with my laptop's video (i830) but are there restrictions as to what cards are supported? I swear I am so superficial that this is the biggest thing I am looking forward to upgrading to... :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-n-t Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 lol. no this isnt windows longhorn. eyecandy is an equal oppurtunity employer in linux-land. that said, it will be slow on integrated graphics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phate Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Well my friend cant get them working with hit ATI card. doesnt support them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted March 2, 2005 Veteran Share Posted March 2, 2005 In theory they will work with any card, but in practice they are pretty much unusable on anything other than an nvidia card, because the nvidia drivers are the only ones which provide hardware acceleration for the render extension. The effects should work on non-nvidia cards, but they'll probably be fairly slow, and maybe more crash-prone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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