Desktop effects: solid white screen

[drago01]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel
<clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
> When I enable desktop effects in current rawhide, all I get is a solid white
> screen.  c-a-bs or <enter> gets me out.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
> 2600 Series]
>

Neither radeonhd nor radeon provide 3D support for your card (which is
required for compiz), starting with compiz-0.7.8-15 it should refuse
to start in this cases (i.e you won't get a white screen but it will
fall back to metacity).