On Thursday 15 October 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The wife's desktop is running KDE 4.3 on a fairly decent homebuilt > machine: 2 gHz dual-core processor, 2 GB RAM, ATI graphics: > $ lspci | grep ati > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 > [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 > Graphics > > The composting effects are terribly slow, and many effects (Wobby > Windows, Cover Switch) refuse to start. I have tried googling KDE4 > composting problems, but all I find are complaints and no solutions. > Where can I start troubleshooting? The distro is Kubuntu 9.04, same as > I run on my daily driver laptop with inferior hardware and no > problems. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. I think you are looking at the wrong place. I'd bet this is not a KDE 4 problem, but an ATI problem. Support for the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 3200 seems to be poor at best, I found many reports of problems with this card. I tend to avoid ATI card... Thierry ___________________________________________________ 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.