Radeon and compositing

dbbolton

dbbolton

I have X running with the radeon driver on my RV350 card. I am trying to enable compositing in KDE4. I was able to do this on with the same versions of KDE and X11 on Debian. However, I had to first install a package 'firmware-linux' which contains CP microcode used by my chipset. On FreeBSD current, my Xorg log contains an error saying that the microcode is not loaded.

I would like to find out whether it is possible to get compositing to work on FreeBSD current, and if so, how.
 
It is certainly possible. Show us the full output of 'LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo 'and your entire /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam
 
You need to enable AIGLX by adding this line to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf file:

Option "AIGLX" "on"

You will likely also want to add this line to the Device section:

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

EXA is faster than XAA but wasn't made the default till quite recently.

Adam
 
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