Seems the latest git for ati open source driver has the dri (direct rendering infrastructure) working. So, after installing the drivers from the source I was able to enabled desktop effects in my kde4. Yup sweetness of success atlast... so here are the steps to enable it...
Open your favorite command line too (konsole, terminal, xterm etc)
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
cd xf86-video-ati
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
make
sudo make install
Now reboot your computer. I thought restarting kdm should have worked, but it seems the driver files are not getting loaded.
Open your system settings and go to desktop effects. Click enable, but before you press apply go to advanced and change the rendering to xrenderer. Now click apply and there you go.. linux eye kandy the way you want :-D....
some changes are done from the steps given here. All credit goes to the post in the link and to open source ati developers... hats off to you guys...
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I would say that I was finally able to get the compiz enabled (in karmic) on this PC without ati drivers.
See here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313828#td_post_8238823
Hi
I was just wondering if you have tried 10.4 with your ASUS Laptop. If so, how is the funcionability? I would love to have Ubuntu on my M51TA-2. The only thing that was stopping me was painfully complicated microphone configuring and no 3D support.
Hi, I made a HowTo to compile new kernel + vga_switcheroo patch made by David Airlie. With this patched kernel, you can switch between graphic cards. And with "sudo yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental" (in Fedora 12) you have 3D acceleration.
Blog:
http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/
I just now tried with 10.10 still there are no desktop effects on kde side atleast. will do some research and post it here...
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