Re: Berly and Mythfrontend?

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> * Beryl doesn't work. Ridiculous amounts of CPU usage.
> * Compiz kinda works, but the windows are black squares (a bug in the
> nVidia drivers, according to the Internet at large).
That is really really odd, because Compiz works fine under Feisty on my
7900GT.
> This is with nVidia drivers 9631 and 9755.
Yeah, I'm just using 9755.
> $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
> Status: Enabled
> Driver: AGPGART
> AGP Rate: 8x
> Fast Writes: Disabled
> SBA: Enabled
>
> No fast writes! Bollocks.
Actually, I remember from the AGP days, that fast writes were considered
to be unstable on many motherboard+gfx card combinations under both
Windows and Linux, and so many drivers would just disable them
automatically to avoid problems. IIRC, this is a feature, not a bug. ;)

Graeme
Received on Sun Apr 15 13:42:18 2007