Desktop effects: solid white screen

[drago01]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, drago01  wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel
>>  wrote:
>>> When I enable desktop effects in current rawhide, all I get is a solid white
>>> screen.  c-a-bs or  gets me out.
>>>
>>> How do I fix this?
>>>
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
>>> 2600 Series]
>>>
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>> 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).
>>
> 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?

-15  is broken but -16 should work fine.
Can you attach the output of glxinfo and LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 glxinfo ?