Compiz not installed by default?

Avi Kivity avi at argo.co.il
Mon Oct 2 19:51:56 UTC 2006


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> >>
> >> We've been working quite a bit on integrating compiz, so that there
> >> should be
> >> no 'black magic' involved.  If compiz works on your hardware with the
> >> drivers
> >> that we ship, it should be just a matter of enabling it.  If you 
> require
> >> further workarounds to get it to work with the open source drivers,
> >> please let
> >> us know so we can incorporate these in the default setup.
> >>
> >
> > On my machine (i965) I get white windows on a black background, e.g. I
> > can drag some white rectangle and get the wobbly window effect, but all
> > windows are solid (if wobbly) opaque rectangles.
>
> Sounds like either your mesa-libGL or your xorg-x11-server RPM is too 
> old.
> The opcodes for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap were recently updated, and if
> libGL and your server disagree on these values, white windows is what 
> you will
> get.  I did add Conflict:'s to the RPMs to prevent this, but maybe 
> that didn't
> work.  I have a i965 here that works with todays rawhide; can you try to
> update these two packages and see if that works for you?
>

I'm running mesa-libGL-6.5.1-3.fc6.  What's more, I had to recompile 
i965_dri.so since otherwise glxgears and other opengl apps would fail 
immediately at startup.  Also had some mtrr issues impacting performance.

I'll try those new releases.


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