Radeon 7500 and AIGLX on Edgy?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:04:09PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:48:31PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > I've a Radeon Mobilty M7 LW aka Radeon 7500.  I'd like some eye candy
> > (drop-shadows, truly translucent windows).
> 
> I have achieved my goal with xcompmgr by adding 'xcompmgr -cCfF -o .2 -D 8'
> to the startup program list for my GNOME session.  It doesn't use
> OpenGL, which is a bonus, because I want to use a dual-head MergedFB
> desktop, and a desktop 2304 pixels wide is beyond the capabilites of the
> hardware 3D engine.  The performance is acceptable (workspace switches
> are somewhat slow when fading is enabled).

I thought it was slightly too good to be true, and it turns out htere is
a catch: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xcompmgr/+bug/65874
xcompmgr causes the X server to leak memory.  800 megs in one day.
Luckily there's a workaround: kill and restart xcompmgr, and the X
server's memory usage goes down.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
                -- Rich Kulawiec
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