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    Hi,

    I have KDE 4, Xorg 1.7 and ATI's 10.6 catalyst drivers.

    I used to use an nVidia card, and compositing worked fine, but now no matter what I do, I can't get it to work.

    Am I right in assuming that KDE compositing does not work on ATI hardware? Or just on the 5000 series?

    Thanks

    My Xorg.conf:

    GitHub Gist: star and fork 445782's gists by creating an account on GitHub.


    Output of xdpyinfo:



    /var/log/Xorg.0.log:


  • #2
    According to your log file, there is no reason for it not to work. Have you tried compiz? If I had to guess, I would say this is a bug in KDE.

    Adam

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    • #3
      Should be a bug in Catalyst, not in KDE. I cannot enable it, too, but it works with the opensource-driver without a problem.

      And I have a HD4650.

      Afaik I couldn't enable compositing since 10.4.

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      • #4
        it's a combination of fglrx and kde >4.4.x (IIRC) that doesn't work. Other compositing window managers work fine, older kde versions work fine etc.

        There's a bug-report on bugs.kde.org about it, but nobody seems interested in investigating the actual cause.

        You can set kde 4.4's compositioning mode to "Xrender". Some effects aren't available and others are a bit slower, but it'll work.

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        • #5
          If other opengl compositing managers (such as compiz) work fine, I'm not sure how it could be anything but a bug in kwin, frankly, since kwin uses the exact same Xorg and OpenGL extensions as compiz.

          Adam

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          • #6
            If other opengl compositing managers (such as compiz) work fine, I'm not sure how it could be anything but a bug in kwin, frankly, since kwin uses the exact same Xorg and OpenGL extensions as compiz.

            Adam

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            • #7
              Not sure if this would be of any help, but I have a Mobility Radeon HD 5730. When I first open my KDE desktop (4.4.2 on Lucid), it 'thinks' that compositing is on, but it really isn't. I can then turn off compositing, then turn it back on...and it works fine after that. There's a widget to put a compositing on/off button on your desktop I just use that when I login - a bit of a nuisance.

              Other than that (and slight video tearing), I've had no problems with 10.6. Moving/resizing windows even happens fast now.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ayqazi View Post
                Hi,

                I have KDE 4, Xorg 1.7 and ATI's 10.6 catalyst drivers.

                I used to use an nVidia card, and compositing worked fine, but now no matter what I do, I can't get it to work.

                Am I right in assuming that KDE compositing does not work on ATI hardware? Or just on the 5000 series?

                Thanks

                My Xorg.conf:

                GitHub Gist: star and fork 445782's gists by creating an account on GitHub.


                Output of xdpyinfo:



                /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

                http://gist.github.com/445784
                Same here, I have tried kde a couple of times recently. I have a 4870 and I've tried kubuntu 10.04 64 bit. Compositing works out of the box with the oss driver but as soon as I install fglrx it wont activate no matter what. And I did do sudo aticonfig --initial. When I install fglrx in ubuntu 10.04 64 bit compiz activates with no issue.
                Originally posted by mikeuw View Post
                Not sure if this would be of any help, but I have a Mobility Radeon HD 5730. When I first open my KDE desktop (4.4.2 on Lucid), it 'thinks' that compositing is on, but it really isn't. I can then turn off compositing, then turn it back on...and it works fine after that. There's a widget to put a compositing on/off button on your desktop I just use that when I login - a bit of a nuisance.

                Other than that (and slight video tearing), I've had no problems with 10.6. Moving/resizing windows even happens fast now.

                I tried that but it just says it cant be activated.

                I still need to try it with cat 10.6, but I ahd this issue with cat 10.4 and 10.5.

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                • #9
                  Personal not having any problems apart from the firefox an bug in 10.6, which brigman sorted for us.

                  Tried 10.4 to 10.6 all seem to work with Kwin, That's on a 5870.

                  Xorg 1.7

                  kde 4.3 to 4.4.3

                  Mandriva. 2010

                  My xorg conf looks very different to yours, Maybe due to distro's though


                  Pete.

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                  • #10
                    I noticed in your xorg.conf you have 3 device sections 1 for the vesa driver, 1 for nvidia and 1 for fglrx... any reason in particular you need vesa ? Also are you trying to run both an Ati and a nvidia card in the same rig ?

                    Like pete910 above I'm on Mandriva, 2010.1 Rc3 64 bit to be precise,
                    and I've had no issue enabling kwin on kde 4.4.3 with the cat 10.4-10.6 drivers.
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