speed up kde4 and visuals?

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Hello there. I hope i’m posting this in te right place. I just upgraded to kde 4.1.3 and,everything works fine, but the visual effects are a bit slow. I was wondering if there is anyway i can speed it up. I remember from the time i was running nvidia there was an option to enable fast write in linux. Is i available anywhere with ati?(not the faswrite enable from bios. did that) For nvidia you had to do the following:

add to /etc/modprobe.conf.local:

options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

Anything like this for ati? any other tip on how to speed up my visuals would be greatly appreciated. Sorry again if i’m posting this in the wrong place.

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the drivers for ati have become open source
i found this out at the Advanced Micro Devices, AMD – Global Provider of Innovative Microprocessor, Graphics and Media Solutions web site
prahapse some developement could be done

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They made the drivers open source?? :o:O:O Wow, that’s something i never expected. Do you have a link to that article?
We should expect some improvements then, since x developers and suse developers will have access to the drivers.

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Linux.com :: It’s official: ATI Radeon drivers to be open sourced
ati open source drivers

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Are there any other ideas how to tune KDE 4 to optimize perfomance?