Compiz-fusion and the 8.9 driver?

[fred]

The 8.9 driver work really well for my HD2600 pro AGP 2D is fast 3D apps and game also work really well. BUT I can't use Compiz-fusion anymore ???

Is anybody else having this issue?

[StefanHamminga]

does your kernel module work properly?

[grantek]

Run "compiz" from a terminal window and see if it gives you any specific errors.

[Kano]

usually

compiz --replace &

[fred]

My kernel module work just fine and there are no error reported in /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log. And like I said before 3D and 2D acceleration is working.

I try to run Compiz --replace & from a terminal but all it did was to crash X

BTW I try Compiz with the RadeonHD driver and it work therefore Compiz do work on my machine.

I'm really :confused: by this situation and since I occasionally sell computer with Linux I would really like Compiz-fusion to work on my main rig!

[Melcar]

Works fine here, except mipmaps (but that never worked on my r6xx cards anyway). Did you upgrade Compiz recently? Try purging it and re-installing.

[fred]

Ok will do

[fred]

Nope still no compiz joy with the 8.9 driver :(

[bundyo]

Nope still no compiz joy with the 8.9 driver :(

Mine was crashing X too but its working fine now, after I upgraded Compiz to version 0.7.8.

[fred]

Great I will try that this evening :)

[bundyo]

Another thing: after that i was getting the same crashes when OpenOffice.org was started. Disabling Textured2D option seems to resolve that and i suspect it will resolve your problem with Compiz 0.7.6 too. Maybe ATI broke that option somehow with the last release.

[fred]

Hmmm how do you disable Texture2D?

[bundyo]

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf usually :) If you don't have such an option, then it should be disabled already. It was the problem for me for sure, now my X is stable.

[Extreme Coder]

Hm, I have the same problem too. I tried lots of different Xorg.Conf configurations, nothing makes a diff..
With 8.8, it complained about missing extension. In 8.9, it just hangs the X Server.
KDE 4 desktop effects don't work as well.

[drankinatty]

I'm really :confused: by this situation and since I occasionally sell computer with Linux I would really like Compiz-fusion to work on my main rig![/QUOTE]

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Have you checked your xorg.conf to insure that the "Extensions" section was re-written by the 8-9 driver install? Specifically, make sure you still have:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection

Also, AIGLX is enabled by default in the recent drivers. Check to make sure with:

grep -e ==.*AIGLX /var/log/Xorg.0.log

If not, try setting:

Section "ServerFlags"
...
Option "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection

Good Luck

[Tarmael]

I was getting a similar problem. Compiz worked, however as soon as I did anything full screen it crashed, then kept crashing.

I tried running:

sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandr12,TRUE"


As listed in the article on the driver and it worked fine after that.

Good luck,

Bas.

[fred]

nope still no compiz joy

I really don't know how to fix this one
Maybe it related to the fact that I have a hd2600 agp card?

[TheIcebreaker]

Mine was crashing X too but its working fine now, after I upgraded Compiz to version 0.7.8.

Which distro u using. Are you on F9??
If yes from which repository did you install 7.8
Or did you compile from source.

[legume]

nope still no compiz joy

I really don't know how to fix this one
Maybe it related to the fact that I have a hd2600 agp card?

Long shot -

ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/

and make sure that the libGL.so.1 symlink points to libGL.so.1.2

[fred]

@ Legume

Yes the libGL.so.1 link to libGL.so.1.2

to the TheIcebreaker I'm running mandriva 2008.1 and fglrx usually work really well.

I'm going to revert to the 8.8 and 8.7 driver to see which one work with compiz (I never tested the 8.8 driver) Then I will try to compare both Xorg.conf to see if anything is change.

[enzobelmont]

it's working fine except for blur plugin in compiz, it doesn't work anymore.

[fred]

Ok here an update

I tested the 8.7 8.8 8.9 driver on two machine one with a hd3780 and hd 2600 pro AGP

Both system are running Mandriva Linux 2008.1

with the 8.7 driver compiz work great but the log out bug is present (X crash)
with 8.8 and 8.9 no compiz :( KDE 4.1 is also extremely slow

In all case 3D acceleration work fine without Compiz.

So what change in the 8.8 and 8.9 driver that could cause this issue.

PS: xorg.conf is exactly the same whit all those version

[NickBrown]

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44373

This appears to not work with 8.8 or 8.9 and compiz of compiz-fusion.

[fred]

Thank's a lot :)

If the Mandriva QA are on it I'm optimistic that they will find
a solution :)

Since you are the one working on this ticket don't forget to mention

that if you try XGL instead of AIGLX for some unknown reason the system switch to the radeonHD driver (without changing xorg.conf ????) I know I have checked!

I know it's sound weird but that's what it does

this bug is reproducible with mandriva 2008.1 and 2009 cooker and that kde 4.1 with 2009 cooker is extremely slow and unresponsive! this bug is reproducibles with the 8.8 and 8.9 driver.

[bundyo]

Which distro u using. Are you on F9??
If yes from which repository did you install 7.8
Or did you compile from source.

openSUSE 11, Compiz installed from CyberOrg's repository.