Mark Bidewell wrote:
I realized I jumped the gun on this question. For some reason it
takes a reboot for effects changes to fully implement. After a reboot
with Xrender enabled things slowed to a crawl and most of the effects
wouldn't work. The only improvement was in the performance of OpenGL
games.
Indeed, OpenGL is normally faster unless you have a really crappy graphics
driver.
Kevin Kofler