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Originally posted by mugginz View PostWell I consider KDE4's compositor to be OpenGL software for a start and people are reporting issues with it under fglrx. And I also don't intend to spend $500 to for the chance to experience them myself. And with the history that fglrx has had I don't think any reasonable independent person could blame me either.
Well, I use kde 4 since 4.1 , versions 4.1 and 4.2 has really anoying problems. KDE 4.4 is working really fine. Desktop effects too. Have you tried to run fglrx and kde 4.4 ?
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Originally posted by Jimbo View PostNice!! you are speaking with more data now!
Well, I use kde 4 since 4.1 , versions 4.1 and 4.2 has really anoying problems. KDE 4.4 is working really fine. Desktop effects too. Have you tried to run fglrx and kde 4.4 ?
Ubuntu 10.04 running on an SSD is pretty epic by the way.
I'll continue to keep an eye on things from ATI though. Their drivers are rapidly improving and I hope that they'll soon suite me. I'm afraid I still need to run closed drivers myself whether they be nVidia or ATI though.
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Originally posted by mugginz View PostHaven't got the info at hand at the moment, but there was another issue when using multiple screens and having the cursor disappear amongst other things when moving it between screens.
Are you speaking about multiple desktop, xinerama - eyeafinity? well i have poor idea of those things. Maybe I am wrong:
-xinerama is part of xorg is plenty of bugs and you can have a bad experience on both ati and nvidia
-eyeaffinity is on ati hardware, so xorg does nothing, if you achive to configure it corectly (which I suspect is difficult) you can have a multiple desktop working fine.
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Originally posted by Jimbo View PostNice more data.
Are you speaking about multiple desktop, xinerama - eyeafinity? well i have poor idea of those things. Maybe I am wrong:
-xinerama is part of xorg is plenty of bugs and you can have a bad experience on both ati and nvidia
-eyeaffinity is on ati hardware, so xorg does nothing, if you achive to configure it corectly (which I suspect is difficult) you can have a multiple desktop working fine.
Xinerama is definitely a last resort for sure and one of the things ATI does better then nVidia (the ability to do more than two screens without Xinerama on a consumer card)
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