compiz-fusion (on Ubuntu/Gutsy) and 8.42

[sastraxi]

Hi all,

Got the new driver compiled and all, but there's unusable display corruption when using desktop effects.
Maybe it's using the wrong path?

I'm just not sure...

http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/6/10/23/f_Screenshotm_c47b89c.png

[Michael]

Do you have fglrx in your driver whitelist in /usr/bin/compiz ?

[d2kx]

Have you whitelisted fglrx in /usr/bin/compiz on Line ~50?

[sastraxi]

Yes, I have.
WHITELIST="nvidia intel ati radeon i810 fglrx"

[d2kx]

Is 3D working properly for you? Does "fglrxinfo" show that fglrx is used over mesa?

[Michael]

Did you do a clean install of Gutsy or a dist-upgrade? In your xorg.conf do you have Composite and AIGLX enabled?

[sastraxi]

3D is working properly:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

It's a clean install of Gutsy. The old modules (8.41) were removed and the new ones were installed with module-assistant.

I don't have composite and aiglx *disabled* - that is to say, the ServerFlags and Extensions sections are empty. compiz seems to start up just fine:

cameron@vienna:~$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:7145 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

[sastraxi]

Just to know, is anyone else experiencing this or am I alone?

[piccolotux]

Many people are experencing problems with compiz generally...we still have to understand if this is related to the new AIGLX implementation, to Compiz itself or to an unfortunate marriage

[b4sakenxx]

wow, i'm actually a bit envious. b/c you at least have the driver installed correctly

i always get MESA with the 8.42 driver even on a fresh squeaky clean install of gutsy. oddly enough the 8.40 driver worked fine using the exact same guide. anyway. if you have any ideas on THAT problem, i would love to know. sorry for changing topic.

anyway, i know compiz part of the system now, but when i used it with XGL i manually installed it and got some extra options. might help you. here:s the code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-gnome compiz-plugins libcompizconfig-backend-gconf libcompizconfig0