all hail to the Xorg-hackers
Just wanted to give big props to the Xorg-hackers (especially Kristian “krh” Hoegsberg) for DRI2 and the related bits, making redirected direct rendering (in layman terms: “GL under compiz”) on my i965 system a reality. I totally love that!
March 12th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
hmmmmm…….. I’m guessing your using a netbook because your wordpress header is aligned to the left
unnoticeable on smaller screens but with higher resolutions its quite strange having the header left aligned and everything else center aligned 
March 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
How did you get this working? Is there a tutorial that newbs like myself can follow to get this? I’ve been going crazy!
March 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@tretle: The current header used in my blog is just a quick stand-in I mocked up when I needed to update my WordPress installation some days ago. It surely looks odd on wider displays.
@Luchid: All I did was add the line …
Option “AccelMethod” “uxa”
… to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in the Device-section for “Configured Video Device”. I have only good results yet with i965-based lenovo laptops (using compiz and metacity+compositor) and i945-based netbooks (using only metacity+compositor). You have to be on jaunty (or a compareable distro). I don’t know all details regarding kernel (possible included backports) Xorg (possible included backports). You can enable/disable metacity’s compositor using …
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager –type bool true (or false)
March 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Thanks for posting this. I will check if that fixes the issues I have with my laptop (XPS M1330 from DELL with i965) that make OpenGL development and similar tasks nearly impossible.
March 13th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
The same xorg hackers who are all but deprecating i8xx support, making X increasingly dependent on libhal, and using autotools as a build system?