transparency for kde windows?

[Massimo B.]

I tried it with an G3 iBook, hardware is a Radeon Mobility M6 LY.
The effect is far too slow. I have to disable it. I also tried it withoud shadowd which are quite buggy.
DRI and acceleration is enabled, as far as glxinfo says.

But the effects I was able to see are looking amazing good, if finally at appropriate speed.
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[Shadow Skill]

Anyone ever get KDE's composite engine to behave properly with an ATI card or are ATI owners still screwed? I would like to be able to use transparency and other effects without killing my system resources like in Windows. I can't dare to turn on certain window animation effects without the apps slowing to a total crawl when the effect is activated. This on an amd3200+ and an x600 256mb gfx card, I run 3ddesktop in Gentoo just fine and the only time it slows down is when I am running portage or doing locate -u. Its really getting annoying that even with all of this power I can barely use some of the cooler effects available for either of my systems because they either won't work with my card [In the case of Linux.] or the resource management is so crappy the system can't handle the effects.
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[nianderson]

Im using the ati-drivers and when i enable the transparency in kde control center my display goes wonky. Is there a fix for this?