Hello,
I use Debian GNU/Linux lenny on an AMD64 laptop (about 5 years old) with an ATI Radeon Mobility XPress 200M card (should use an r300). The problem is that KDE’s desktop effects are not smooth.
If I use the proprietary fglrx driver, some effects like wandering through windows with Alt + TAB are acceptable at times, but not if more than about eight window are open. Others, like moving a window around the screen with transparency enabled, are never smooth. If I use the opensource radeon driver, it’s even worse.
The interesting thing is that performing exactly the same animation twice often helps (but is, of course, not what you do in ordinary work). For example, it can happen that showing all windows isn’t performed smoothely. If I press ESC and then show all windows again, it might happen that it’s smooth now.
I understand that my laptop is not the newest model. On the other hand, Macs had desktop effects before my laptop was built. So I’d assume that my hardware should be able to handle desktop effects well. So what is the problem then? Is it that KDE’s effect code is not optimized enough, is it that drivers are in a bad state, or is it something else?
I’d really like to hear hints for solutions since these problems are getting more and more annoying. :-(
Best wishes,Wolfgang___________________________________________________This message is from the kde mailing list.Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
