<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">2008/4/30 Joel Bosveld <<a href="mailto:joel.bosveld@gmail.com">joel.bosveld@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you were currently running with xgl also.<br>
> Aiglx (at least from the users perspective) is just another way of doing<br>
> what xgl does (with some advantages/disadvantages). As far as I understand<br>
> the fglrx driver uses aiglx in order to do what xgl was doing for it (namely<br>
> provide the texture_from_pixmap gl extension).<br>
><br>
> To enable xgl it should be as simple as "sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl"<br>
> then restart X.<br>
><br>
> Joel<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Actually, I might be running with XGL:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl<br>
</div>xserver-xgl is already the newest version.<br>
<br>
How can I check if it is running? I tried xg<tab> with the hope that<br>
some config app would come up, but no luck. I am willing to try aiglx,<br>
how is that installed? Apt-cache did not find anything, and I have all<br>
the major repos configured:<br>
<br>
$ sudo apt-cache search aiglx<br>
$<br>
<br>
I tried using the open source drivers by disabling the blacklist<br>
check, however, they performed even worse than the fglrx drivers. For<br>
me, Compiz is not eye candy (I use the zoom and negative features) so<br>
this is rather important to me. Though, I do enjoy installing Ubuntu<br>
on friends machines after they drool over Wobbly Windows. :)<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>You don't need to do anything to enable aiglx, just removing xgl should work. "sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl", though in ubuntu you can create an extra file, and it will just not start xgl, which will have the same effect (I am just not sure which file that is). Also, compiz won't work with that card and the open drivers, so you will have to use fglrx. (just uninstall xgl and see if the performance increases)<br>
<br>Joel<br>.</div></div>