Desktop effects: solid white screen

[Tom London]

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Rodd Clarkson  wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 16:01 -0700, Tom London wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... compiz-0.7.8-15 and -16 fail to start on my Intel controller too:
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
>> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
>> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>>
>> Works fine with compiz-0.7.8-14.  This expected?  Do I need to pass
>> some "magic" settings somewhere?
>
> Me too.
>
> see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487619
>
> (This bug isn't just about this, but about the journey to get it working
> in Fedora.)
>
>
> R.

Looks like I've had 'better' luck.

My experience is that on my laptop the KMS stuff appears to be
sensitive to the particulars of the monitor: I connect my X200 laptop
to 2 different monitors, one works fine "out of the box" (with KMS,
gdm/gnome, compiz), while the other doesn't.

For the one that doesn't, booting with "nomodeset" makes gdm/gnome
work for me, and booting with "nomodeset nopat" seems to make
gdm/gnome and compiz work for me.  At least up to compiz-0.7.8-14.

Have you tried that?

tom
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