Help regarding ATI driver

[alekz]

Hi,
I'm running openSUSE 10.3 on a hp compaq nw8440 laptop that has the X1600 GPU I think, it has the ATI FireGL sticker on it anyway.
Kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp
Using the Catalyst 8.3 driver.

I'm having the following problems:

1) If I enable Xgl I get a box around my mouse pointer that follows the mouse around making it hard to select things and leaving a trail behind sometimes.
2) If I enable Xgl and Compiz or Compiz Fusion starting a program by clicking on a launcher button takes the CPU to 100% for maybe 5-10 seconds before the programs starts to launch. It does not happen without XGL.
3) I have tried to enable AIGLX instead but it does not work. The log show me the following:

(II) fglrx(0): RENDER and Composite disabled when OpenGL Overlay enabled

but I have the following in my xorg.conf:

Option       "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

This is my entire xorg.conf

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-04-14T13:49:48+0200.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <[email protected]>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "glx"
  Load         "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "se"
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "7"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
  Option       "Buttons" "7"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
  DisplaySize  331 207
  HorizSync    30-94
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "SAMSUNG LCD MONITOR"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "SEC"
  VertRefresh  43-60
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Framebuffer Graphics"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "fglrx"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
  Option       "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
  Option       "CenterMode" "off"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
  Option       "mtrr" "off"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAScale" "1"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
  Option       "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
  Option       "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
  Option       "no_accel" "no"
  Option       "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
  Option       "UseFastTLS" "0"
  Option       "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
  Option       "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
  Option       "FSAAEnable" "no"
  Option       "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
  Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
  Option       "VideoOverlay" "on"
  Option       "no_dri" "no"
  Option       "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
  Option       "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
  Option       "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
  Option       "Stereo" "off"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
  Option       "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
  Option       "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
  Option       "ScreenOverlap" "0"
  Option       "DRI" "true"
  Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
  VendorName   "VESA"
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Option       "aiglx" "true"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option       "DAMAGE" "false"
  Option       "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection