Desktop effects: solid white screen

[Lawrence E. Graves]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:39 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 08:45 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 09:10 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> > >
> > >> > 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 ?
> > >
> > >
> > > This is broken for me with -14. (I get the white screen)
> > >
> > > I've installed -16 from koji and I now no longer get the white screen,
> > > but it fails to start compiz with a message of that sort.
> > >
> > > Attached are the two outputs you asked for numbered in the order they
> > > were asked for.
> > 
> > Try -17, and what kind of hardware is this?
> 
> I installed -17 and now I'm back to getting white screens when I try to
> enable compiz.  Argghhh! (Not that compiz worked the other way either,
> but it still feels like a step backwards.)
> 
> 
> R.
> 
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>  It's much better on my side"
> If I am not mistaken, you need to enable kmod nvidia and it will find to drivers to run compiz.