XOrg 6.7.99.x / 6.8.0

Peaceable Frood · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:

It seems to corrupt the window decorations on Enlightenment when enabled.
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oisch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 130

I installed the Xorg cvs ebuild and it seems to be quite stable. But when I use the Composite extension and start an application that uses it the whole screen freezes and X segfaults (I can still ssh into my box).
The Xorg log only says that it segfaulted

Has anyone experienced the same (I'm using the open source ati drivers) or something like that?

Hope that they don't include the Composite extensions like this in the final release. They should really work for everyone.

Lolo- · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 62 Location: SQY (France)

just wanted to say there is an ebuild for xorg-x11 6.7.99.2 in portage

I've just compiled it and replaced the keybord driver "Keyboard" with "kbd" and it's running (nvidia drivers).

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

ratbert90 · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 177

So does this support true transparancy now? If so, how would I get it to work? Gnome-terminal still just shows the wallpaper, and not mozilla/whatever program is running behind it.

Help!
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Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

Does anyone know how big this is uncompressed (straight from cvs) , as I didn't know about the ebuild and am doing it by hand from a cvs checkout, and it has been running for ages. Currently it has done 250Mb - Is it nearly done?

Ben

Peaceable Frood · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject:

ratbert90 · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 177

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

What do you mean?

To get true transparency, you need to be running something that uses the composite extension. One example is xcompmgr from fd.o, but apparently Metacity has some kind of built-in composite support in 2.7 and beyond if earlier posts are correct (or did I misunderstand?).

After that, gnome-terminal would need to be made transparent somehow. I assume you could do this one of two ways. The first way is that you can set the transparency of the entire window with something like transset from fd.o. However, that's probably not what you want.

I suspect that if the terminal portion of gnome-terminal was rewritten to support 32 bit ARGB color instead of the old transparency hackery, you could get something like the current terminal that displays actual windows behind it. However, it's not as simple as flipping a switch.
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Peaceable Frood · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:20 am Post subject:

Well you can do it now, sort of, make sure you have the composite extension enabled in your xorg.conf, install xcompmgr from the Freedesktop.org CVS, and also grab transset from the CVS too. Then start xcompmgr, and then transset and click on the terminal window, and then you end up with something like this
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sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

Has anyone gotten this to work well with nvidia and xcompmgr? It's to slow to be usable, vesa is faster but still not fast enough and it crashes for me. Its probaly slow since its still development, but just checking to see other people experiences with the nvidia driver.

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

I used it with the nvidia driver.

It was okay in terms of speed. Only a little slower than base X11.

However, it causes visual artifacts in lots of stuff, and crashes a lot. It instantly crashed when I tried to run konqueror and I've heard it dies on anything KDE.

Out of curiosity, do you have the experimental render acceleration on in the nvidia drivers? That might help the speed for xcompmgr.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:00 am Post subject:

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

dkenn · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 27

From ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6111/README.txt:

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

dkenn that must be it cause it made a HUGE difference. Thanks, everything is very fast now.

Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

Is it just me or does this compile insanly fast?? Mine (2400XP with 256Mb RAM) took less than 30 laps of the Grand Prix!!!

Ben

robotoverflow · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject:

That Hardware accelleration option made all the difference. Now if it just stopped scrambling all pixmaps and locking up my system, then we'd be in business.

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

sfcfagwdse: Glad to hear it's working well now.

As far as I know, xcompmgr gets individual windows through the composite extention, and then uses render to blend them together. That's why you need render acceleration (don't know how that works) to make it passibly fast.

What widgets and so on are you using, and do you see the visual artifacts and stuff?
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svyatogor · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

Anyone managed to get it working with NVidia? It breaks xpm's and text in fluxbox

Moreover I can't use vesa with this version

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

anyone know if XDamage is an extension you have to specificaly enable?

Cuz that's kinda nifty too

dkenn · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 27

I've got it working with nvidia, at least as much as it does work. It breaks text in fluxbox and causes shearing in firefox when scrolling, for me. If you're brave enough to try, you'll want to follow the instructions at http://ruinaudio.com/xorg-cvs-howto.txt to get the latest sources and build them... and then make sure that, if you have an nvidia card, the RenderAccel option is enabled. You can start X and run xcompmgr -cf to test it out... You can keep tabs on the development by subscribing the xorg mailing list or hanging out in #freedesktop on freenode.

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

xcompmgr uses composite, damage and fixes, I think, so all you should have to enable is composite. Damage, fixes and the others are on by default.
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svyatogor · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:54 am Post subject: