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  1. Bug #96991
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Comment 40 for bug 96991

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Oliver Mattos (omattos) wrote : Re: [Bug 96991] Re: 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
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yep, but remember a good 30% of users use non nvidia cards. This needs to
be detected more intelligently. Maybe compiz should not be enabled by
default for non-nvidia cards until this problem is fixed.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Alexander Jones <email address hidden> wrote:

> Oliver, I'm not sure it's that bad -- "Un-direct fullscreen windows"
> should be enabled by default. i.e. full screen windows should draw
> directly to the framebuffer. Check your Compiz configuration if you've
> messed with it.
>
> My advice, however, is if your driver doesn't support indirect 3D (that
> is, any driver other than proprietary nvidia), disable Compiz. It's
> really not worth the grief.
>
> --
> 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96991
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