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ianegg · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

I've already tried the -noglx option - it wasn't much fun

I haven't been able to compile Reveman's tarball for some reason... Probably my fault in the configure phase...

Trying option #3 now...

As for finding the parts missing _XSERVER64... Urm, I have no idea what I'd have to do there

Thanks for the help though.

But just to get this straight - does the cvs version have all the changes Dave Reveman & co. made, or have they not been merged yet?

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ianegg · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject:

Excellent, thanks for that. It's working nicely now

Update:

I've been playing with Xgl all evening and it's been quite stable with most of my usual KDE session running on it. Xv / overlay is corrupted though.

glxcompmgr is excellent! The "wobbly" "shadow" and "fade" plugins work perfectly together, as long as you specify "shadow" before "fade". To load "rotate" or "zoom", you need "cube" first, but going through the souce doesn't shed any light on how to use any of those. No idea what "expose" does, and there's one called "gconf" that spews out an error and segfaults:

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ianegg · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject:

glxcompmgr will only run on the nested Xgl server, and not normal xorg-x11.

Once you have tested it and know it all works, you can run Xgl from the command line, and it will start up as if it was a normal X server - it's stable enough for me, but there are a few too many bugs to use it primarily.

I made a simple script called "startxgl", which I can run after logging in as a user instead of startx/kdm:

mariux2 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 242

I got it working on my Laptop with Mobility 9700 and fglrx-driver. Its f---ing sweet. No more redraw-issues. glxcompmgr with the wobbly-effect was amazing.

Used this howto : http://www.hboeck.de/item/266

Videos: http://stud.ntnu.no/~mariusst/video/xglx2.wmv sorry about wmv, but windows movie maker is the only way i seem to be able to make a decent compression (tried million commands in mencoder)

Still a few bugs though, most noticably in glxcompmgr though (without it Xglx is amazingly slow)

Belgabor · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Germany

Note for all that have a similar setup: the cvs checkout of the mesa ebuild provided on that site fails if your distfiles is mounted via nfs.

irondog · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

Iluminatus · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

You guys should really chekout CVS, new time stampjust arrive.

I advise you to download this snapshot it worked well here at first shot.

One more advise, check david's Airlied Journal.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/airlied/

I will really love kde 4 -

ianegg · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject:

You guys might want to chek out this comment on Hanno's howto:

irondog · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

boniek · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 373

Funny stuff

You guys running this on proprietary ati drivers perhaps? If so what card chipset?

How about some translucent stuff?
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ianegg · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

Well, gconftool-2 is a right awkward pain in the rectum.

I've been playing around, and managed to get the zoom plugin bound to the right mouse button. Plain(ish) sailing from here in, but the plugins are working, and all you need to enable them is gconf-editor or gconftool-2 and a lot of patience...

The first 2 steps didn't generate the right keys originally, but I managed to get it to work by deleting stuff and enabling different plugins, anyway, hopefully this will work first time for those who don't want to install gnome stuff:

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ianegg · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:58 am Post subject:

It's very smooth if I'm not doing anything else, but everything slows down a lot when I'm doing stuff like merges.

Just emerged xvidcap, will play about with it now, even though I should have been in bed hours ago!

Just want to add that you can bind keyboard buttons to the effects...

Hmm:

boniek · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 373

If thats the case, you should use something like rapidshare.de

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ianegg · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:58 am Post subject:

Thanks! http://rapidshare.de/files/11327674/dsci0020.avi.html

Time for bed. I'll worry about getting higher quality videos tomorrow.

For those who want a more wobbly glxcompmgr experience: (with "gconftool-2 --spawn" and the gconf and wobbly plugins enabled)

boniek · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 373

Thanks for your input it will come in handy when this stuff works for me too

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I've got a problem with compiling xgl. Using ebuild from hanno's howto. Error message says:

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oggialli · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:

Start a WM with DISPLAY set to the display of the Xgl server? That's about it. Nevertheless at least for me it's too damn slow (with fglrx).
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

Hi,

well, twm goes down with a font error

enlightenment starts - but, how do I get Xgl to start enlightenment (or kwin, which seems not to have a -display option) to always be started?
I have a .xinitrc, but that seems to be ignored?
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