KDE 4.2 & desktop effects on Intel

[Ivan Voras]

2009/2/9 Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com>:
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:49:58 +0100
> Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've successfully (or so it seems) installed KDE 4.2 on my Acer Aspire
>> One "netbook". The things I tried work ok, except one thing: I can't
>> turn on "desktop effects" in KDE. AFAIK this relies on compositing and
>> OpenGL, which I know work on this hardware since before this there was
>> Ubuntu Linux on it (with desktop-cube, etc). KDE doesn't want to enable
>> both OpenGL and XRender modes.
>
> According to the output below, it looks like AIGLX is getting disabled
> by default:
>
> (==) AIGLX disabled
>
> Try creating a new xorg.conf file and enabling AIGLX in the
> ServerLayout section.

Thanks, this works!

If anyone's interested - running KDE 4.2 on an Atom-based netbook is
bearable (even with effects), but not smooth.