Hi Anne et al. > It's odds-on that acceleration method is the key. Intel and ATi are both > rapidly developing their drivers to meet the more stringent requirements of > recent distros. Kde4 desktops in particular uses parts of the driver not > stressed in older versions. On this laptop I have an ATi display. The > desktop works best with AccelMode set to EXA, but kuickshow has corrupted > display in EXA and looks fine with XAA. It really does seem to be something > where you just have to experiment. > > You might find http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance helpful since I've switched AccelMode to XAA on my latop with the old i830 chipset, I didn't see any graphics corruption. I don't use desktop effects on this machine anyway, so I'm not missing out on any bling features :-) Cheers, Andreas
