Version: (using KDE 4.3.1) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Without compositing speed is ok. When compositing is turned on, speed is painfuly slow.
This is not limited to fglrx, the radeon driver is the same. Also, when I minimize or maximize a window there is a slight pause, if I minimize and the immediately maximize it, I have a (seconds) long pause during which nothing happens. Disabling desktop effects makes thing happen instantly. Driver ati 6.12.4 DRI from 2.6.30 kernel (compiled from source will cause panic on shutdown...) Mesa 7.5.2 Xorg 7.4 Xorg server 1.6.4
SVN commit 1042711 by graesslin: Adding the missing pieces for a nice and fast letterbox resizing as a replacement for the drawbound resizing. Perhaps we should not display the totally ugly drawbound when we have an active resize effect. CCBUG: 208770 CCBUG: 152638 M +6 -0 effects.cpp M +1 -0 effects.h M +12 -2 effects/resize/resize.cpp M +2 -0 effects/resize/resize.h M +3 -0 geometry.cpp M +4 -0 lib/kwineffects.cpp M +3 -1 lib/kwineffects.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1042711
*** Bug 219755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can confirm this bug in KDE SC 4.4 RC2. And ATI driver 9.12 and 10.1.
*** Bug 226495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can confirm this bugs in KDE 4.4.0 This affect me since KDE 4.0 in all the drivers of my ATI 4850
I can also confirm this bug with KDE 4.3.5 and xorg-driver-fglrx version 2:8.660-0ubuntu4.
The resize effect has by now been significantly improved to provide a fast texture scaling. This provides a fast and useful workaround for the slow resizing with fglrx. Sorry that we cannot do something real about it, but fglrx is out of our control. From personal experience the resizing is better with radeon and even worse with NVIDIA blob, but significantly better on nouveau.