XGL disabling?

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Jan 7, 2008 4:52 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
> i've seen lots of videos on youtube etc. featuring compiz/beryl using
> xgl and they all seem to run really fast and be really stable.  this has
> not been my experience.
>
> that said, i probably just can't google well enough to come up with the
> tweaks which would make my hardware perform.

Well, the actual desktop effects, like cube and the expose-like
feature, the wobbly windows all worked really well on my integrated
i855 card when i did finally get them working.  However it seems that
for it to composite the 3d from another program into Xgl is too much
for "the little laptop that could" to handle.  This probably mostly is
due to lack of built-in texture memory.

When it comes down to it, I really do like a limited set of the compiz
effects, but in the end, losing the ability to play enemy territory
and work in blender just wasn't worth it for me.

I do think that the decision to leave this activated by default was
premature, since my laptop is only 2.5 years old and doesn't deal with
it very well.   OTOH I have a 6 year old machine with an even older
nvidia card that ran it just fine, so maybe I just should have chosen
a different distro for my working laptop