Temporarily Disabling AIGLX?

[Mark Rosenstand]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 21:10 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> I've not as of yet been able to get Compiz and AIGLX eye-candy working (odd
> since it was working nicely around the FC6T2 time frame). Because of this, AIGLX
> doesn't seem very useful to me, and as I've been having some issues with a few
> SDL/OpenGL apps, I'd like to disable it to test if it is AIGLX or something else
> that is malfunctioning.
> 
> I looked through the radeon(4) and xorg.conf(5) man pages with Yelp and found
> nothing useful. A google search returned an earlier post from the X.org mailing
> list from Donnie Berkholz suggesting to add `Option "AIGLX" "off"` in the
> ServerFlags section of the xorg.conf file. Unfortunately, that just results in
> a hardlock when between when RHGB finishes and when GDM attempts to start up.
> 
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks.

I don't think you need to disable it in the server - just either disable
the compositor in metacity, or in the case of compiz, don't launch it.