Jie Zhang’s Blog

Yesterday I saw a post on ubuntu forums. It WORKS. Now Xgl + Compiz work very smoothly and stable. Everyone who has Xgl problem on ati card should give it a try. "playerX", the mysterious gentoo guy, now is my new HERO!

The left is Shanghai/Hongqiao, the right is Shanghai/Pudong.

Novell released Xgl and compiz about a month ago. It’s painless to setup them in my AMD64 home pc with a Nvidia FX 5200 graphic card. I’m totally overwhelmed. Among it’s all eye candy features, my favorite is the scale feature. It’s a composite of Apple’s Expose and Microsoft coming Vista’s task switching.

But I never managed to use them in my working notebook with an ATI mobility X300 graphic card. After several nights of trial, I gave up. I think most people who were trying hard on their ATI card have some common feelings:

And the only one you can blame is ati, which doesn’t support open source, and besides doesn’t even provide quality closed source drivers… [quoted from]

Oh, taotao was not looking for something. She just tried to get balance and step up. 

Taotao had a hair cut.

[Update:  After I had posted this icon, I was told this photo was taken before the hair cut. ]