Bling!

[Will H. Backman]

Chris Kurecka wrote:
> Thanks Ray.
> 
> That got it working for me.  It doesn't cause any major issues or 
> anything, but it seemed to die on its own a couple times (just showing a 
> normal GNOME desktop without shadows).  Rerunning spififity after that 
> brought it back up.  On my Radeon 9000 it's kind of slow.  I was 
> wondering if anything can be done to make it faster?
> 
> My xorg.conf options are:
> 
> Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
> Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
> Option "RenderAccel" "yes"
> Option "AccelMethod" "xaa"
> 
> I tried exa, but that made it seem even slower.  Should I consider ATI's 
> proprietary drivers?  Is there any other flag worth trying?
> 
> Thanks for the help.  It's pretty cool.
> 
> Chris Kurecka
> 

I hope these nifty features (eye candy) can be useful using the native 
xorg dri drivers.  It would be a shame to end up requiring proprietary 
drivers.