Re: [Sheflug] Beryl

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:28 -0400, Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:

> I've been playing with Beryl recently (don't tell the wife!) on
> openSuSE10.2 (despite saying I wasn't going to install it) and it's
> really nice. I love the desktop cube, and it runs quite nicely on my
> Dell Latitude 410 with a bog-standard Intel graphics chip. Hit does seem
> to kill video playback though.

Are you using XGL (the standalone 3D X server) or AiGLX (the 3D plugin
for regular Xorg)?

<anecdotal evidence>
I used XGL+Compiz when it was first around on an Nvidia card and noticed
video playback was a bit dodgy, and have since tried out AiGLX+Beryl and
haven't noticed it. Admittedly the XGL card was slower than the AiGLX
one, but I think that the way XGL works it makes video playback slow
down.
</anecdotal evidence>

If you are using XGL then I'd say switch to AiGLX as it is currently the
better option anyway these days, the only reason XGL is really around
these days is because ATI haven't put the needed things into their
proprietary driver to get AiGLX working. The open source drivers
(including the Intel one) and the proprietary Nvidia one do have these
though, so all should run AiGLX fine.

By the way, I run my laptop (crappy
not-supported-by-anything-even-though-ATI-say-they-do-but-they-don't ATI
graphics) and used to run my desktop (ATI Radeon 9200, ATI don't support
it but the open source driver works fine for anything non-transparent)
on AiGLX even without Compiz/Beryl, just because I am very good at
screwing up Xorg then having to use AiGLX instead just to get a GUI.
Video playback is fine like this, but when using XGL on that old Nvidia
card the video playback problem was still there with regular Metacity.

Hope that helps a bit

Chris Warburton

PS: If you already are using AiGLX then I have no idea what the problem
is :(


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