On Thursday 15 October 2009 20:01:33 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. > Desktop effects were unusable on my ATi-video laptop until I changed the fade time, as described in http://userbase.kde.org/GPU- Performance#Some_things_that_may_speed_up_any_card.27s_performance It's no flyer, now, but perfectly usable. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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