XBMC/mplayer and KDE Desktop effects

Hi,
i have setup a arch based HTPC with XBMC on top of KDE, but there is one thing i were not able to resolve: The XBMC GUI and playing a video on it gets laggy as soon as i DISABLE the kde desktop effects. My system is i3/sandy bridge based with integrated intel graphics, vaapi installed.
1. tried different playback settings within XBMC, same results
2. as soon as i disable the kde desktop effects, xbmc becomes slow and laggy, even if i dont restart it, if i enable desktop effects its smooth again
3. mplayer reacts the same way when used with -vo gl or -vo gl2, so it could be somehow opengl related. With -vo xv it runs smooth in both configurations.
4. Cpu load is constantly <20%
5. tried as root user, same results
6. glxinfo reports direct rendering is enabled
so any ideas how to resolve that problem? or how to find out whats going on?
you may ask why i want to disable desktop effects, well with desktop effects on, videos run almost perfect, but sometimes there are smaller lags that, i guess, can be related to the desktop effects eating resources, so i want to try without them.
here is the custom part of my xorg config, tearfree was needet to get a vsync-enabled video playback:
#20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
#Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
#Option "AccelMethod" "xaa"
EndSection
Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection

kichawa wrote:@ChemBro root access? Where is more info about that ?
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109
Security vulnerability CVE-2012-0946 in the NVIDIA UNIX driver was disclosed to NVIDIA on March 20th, 2012. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker who has read and write access to the GPU device nodes to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary system memory. NVIDIA is not aware of any reports of this vulnerability, outside of the disclosure which was made privately to NVIDIA.

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Application: KWin (kwin), signal: Aborted
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
To enable execution of this file add
add-auto-load-safe-path /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.19-gdb.py
line to your configuration file "/home/perry/.gdbinit".
To completely disable this security protection add
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#4 0x00007fafa3f7a0a2 in start_thread () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
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[SOLVED] desktop effects and compiz

Hello all,
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--nixIT
Last edited by nixIT (2010-11-10 20:20:21)

nixIT wrote:Which brings me to my second question, I have my terminal set to a transparent background, however, the background in terminal is only semi/quasi transparent, meaning my desktop shows through the window, which is great, but when I move the terminal windows over another window, Firefox or Chromium for that matter, the browser doesn't show through terminal but instead my desktop still shows through the terminal. My ubuntu system at work works as expected, meaning when I drag my terminal over other windows, the windows show through the terminal not my desktop. Is there a setting in Arch that I'm missing, or do you know if Ubuntu does some other smoke and mirrors trick?
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I'm using xf86-video-ati with my ATI card.
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Everything was perfect:
http://i42.tinypic.com/14l1x8p.jpg
But I noticed that whenever I snap a window to any side of the screen and the stretching effect is displayed this happens:
http://i44.tinypic.com/dm9oyg.png
And If I go back to a small window:
http://i40.tinypic.com/104p15i.png
Now, as soon as I click elsewhere those black/invisible boxes are gone.
As you can see I checked under system settings >> desktop effects >> advanced and, if I change the Compositing Type to Xrenderer the problems are gone, but as you can imagine that is not ideal, this ONLY happens when I select ANY version of OpenGL as the Compositing Type.
I use the proprietary AMD drivers for my HD 6770, I think this problem might have something to do with that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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[SOLVED] NO desktop effects in KDE 4.7.0 with OpenGL as backend

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Last edited by Pyruzan (2011-07-29 17:08:24)

You are using a version with OpenGL ES enabled. But this doesn't seem to work with ATI cards.
At least not with Catalyst: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 53#p966953 looks like radeon works.
Use kdebase-workspace 4.7.0-2 from testing instead.
Last edited by Xerdomii (2011-07-29 15:50:47)

[SOLVED] KDE, Certain Desktop Effects require OpenGL but can't set it

Certain desktop effects give me an error when enabled (or rather when I try to enable them) saying that they require OpenGL.
I changed the Compositing type to OpenGL and the Qt graphics system to Raster (also tried with the default Native), and I get an error saying that it Failed to activate desktop effects given configuration options.
How can I enable OpenGL and get it all working properly?
Last edited by harsha (2012-08-09 19:02:50)

What's you graphics card and drivers? You can have working openGL but your card can be to old to support all the extension required by particular effect. Other effects are working ok and just couple of them are giving error, right? If so it's ok.
Also paste output of glxinfo | grep -i render
Last edited by masteryod (2012-08-09 18:59:43)

Is X-windows and GUI desktops supported on the ODA "engineered system" running a RAC database? If it is, what is the yum command needed to install the X-windows, Gnome, and KDE package groups?

Is X-windows and GUI desktops supported on the ODA "engineered system" running a RAC database? If it is, what is the yum command needed to install the X-windows, Gnome, and KDE package groups?

While I agree with the direction of the suggestions with installing packages for X-windows, we do not have a blanket 'apply any package' recommendation.
In particular we do not support altering the kernel (although we do have exceptions which we review on a case by case basis).
Basically, if the you want to alter functionality that would not impact core functionality you are usually fine.
A good guideling is : The more dependencies that there are between the package / rpm you are considering using the higher the potential impact on functionality - meaning higher chance for problems
Note: We do use VNC including Real and Tiger regularly , but we have no hard recommendation on how you may want to use X-windows. I have never seen a limitation other than comments on bugs
or incompatibility within the X-window product itself with certain kernel levels.
Patching may overwrite some packages that you may install, however, _depending on packages/rpms added_ there is also the possibility that you will break existing functionality to the point
that patching itself will fail ( we have already seen a few cases of this in which case the proper mitigation is to remove / roll-back any alterations to the ODA before patching, and then adding the packages/rpms
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From what you are discussing the impact should be low without conflicts, but please consider the above, and if you have specific packages which you consider potential problems
please create an SR so that we can review packages / rpms on an individual basis.
Once again: the main criteria for not supporting rpms is regarding the kernel itself
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I have started using my Mac for Unix systems administration using X11 and XDMCP (??) to a local linux box running KDE. I start X with -query a.b.c.d and running fullscreen I get a nice fullscreen desktop login. Everything was working fine until I realised that I was still running the Panther version of X11 on my Tiger system. I have upgraded from the install CD and now have a minor but impossible problem.
Everything works as before and I can login to the box. I open a Konsole session on the KDE desktop and suddenly discover that the "e" key on my keyboard has become a backspace key!!! Every other key seems to work fine!!
I cannot figure out what is causing this and how to fix it any and all advice/suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks,
Adrian

Remote Control is a built-in feature for SCCM 2012 and uses the RPC protocol. When you use this, the user can still be logged on while helping.
Remote Desktop is a buit-in feature for Windows and uses the RDP protcol. When you use it, the user will be logged off.
Why you would use one over the other depends on your requirements.
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