On Tuesday 06 October 2015 15:03:28 Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
On Oct 6, 2015 1:08 PM, "Reindl Harald"
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 06.10.2015 um 07:47 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad:
>> I think Plasma 5 uses OpenGL (hardware accelerated) shell, this is why
>> display drivers have much more effect on it's stability (compared to
KDE4)
>> For your laptop, if you have hybrid graphics, probably you can disable
>> the external GPU from the BIOS, this will give you better experience.
>
> and how does that explain that i had KDE4 desktop effects also configured
on my IvyBridge/SandyBridge machines to use OpenGL and never saw effects
like new windows sometimes appear first as a black rectangle until the
window finally got displayed?
I don't know the details, I might be wrong but probably the effects thing
is different, they said "Fully Hardware-Accelerated Graphics Stack" in
Plasma 5 announcement.
Mustafa
So please tell us... what driver actually works
Eli
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