[compiz] Running Compiz in XGL

[Joel Bosveld]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/4/30 Joel Bosveld <joel.bosveld at gmail.com>:
> > Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you were currently running with xgl
> also.
> > Aiglx (at least from the users perspective) is just another way of doing
> > what xgl does (with some advantages/disadvantages). As far as I
> understand
> > the fglrx driver uses aiglx in order to do what xgl was doing for it
> (namely
> > provide the texture_from_pixmap gl extension).
> >
> > To enable xgl it should be as simple as "sudo apt-get install
> xserver-xgl"
> > then restart X.
> >
> > Joel
> >
>
> Actually, I might be running with XGL:
> $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl
> xserver-xgl is already the newest version.
>
> How can I check if it is running? I tried xg<tab> with the hope that
> some config app would come up, but no luck. I am willing to try aiglx,
> how is that installed? Apt-cache did not find anything, and I have all
> the major repos configured:
>
> $ sudo apt-cache search aiglx
> $
>
> I tried using the open source drivers by disabling the blacklist
> check, however, they performed even worse than the fglrx drivers. For
> me, Compiz is not eye candy (I use the zoom and negative features) so
> this is rather important to me. Though, I do enjoy installing Ubuntu
> on friends machines after they drool over Wobbly Windows. :)
>
> Dotan Cohen
>

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)

Joel
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