[ltp] Ubuntu 8.10 w/ T60p and FireGL 5250

[Phil Shotton]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:
>   
>> Compiz seems to work well.  Again, when I enable with "Visual Effects"
>> it will say I need the fglrx driver, but it works fine w/o that
>> driver.  Even in dual screen mode (and the cube turns into an
>> octagon).
>>
>> One problem with compiz enabled is I cannot play video in either
>> Mplayer or Totem Movie Player.  Mplayer says:
>>
>>    X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>>     
>
> Switch to EXA (Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in the device section of
> your config).  The problem is due to the fact that XAA does not work
> well with composite.  XAA provides no method to migrate pixmaps back
> to vram if they get swapped out and the pixmap has to be in vram to be
> accessed by the texture engine at the moment.
>
> Alex
>   
Alex, that works perfectly. Thanks a million, and once again congrats to 
everyone involved in Intrepid - I'm very impressed.

Phil