XGL (Part 6)

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

Hi guys I'm using xorg 7.1.1 with latest ati drivers and can't get Xgl working again. (yes it worked some months ago =)

The problem: I can start Xgl but whenever I start compiz it says that no Xgl is present. It looks like Xgl is not launched correctly. Does anyone know something about that?
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estel · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

How are you calling xgl and compiz?
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Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

By the way Xgl only works as root, thats what I get as user in normal X:

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject:

Ok some news: I fixed the error above with an appropriate line in my fstab. Now compiz recognizes my XGl correctly although it complained first about dbus. Now I get:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Phlogiston: You need to launch a dbus session via dbus-launch since you obviously are not using gnome via the /etc/rc.conf XSESSION variable.

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm I just found an interesting solution for the slowness: Setting depth to 16, but then my fglrx driver says thats not supported...
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Phlogiston · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

Xgl/Compiz runs quite nice here now, but I got that nasty switcher bug again: The window of the switcher stays there when I release alt-tab... It's quite annoying. Anyone knows what to do?
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Phlogiston · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

1ino1eum_4the_win · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 92

hello guys .
Well, I come back from holidays , and there is lots of news !
I need some info : I see that there is "compiz" in portage now... ok that's great ! But sould we use the compiz from portage, or "compiz-quinnstorm" from the xgl-overlay ?
By the way, why in the xgl overlay, compiz-quinnstorm is not changed by beryl ?
finaly a stupid question (again

) : how can I remove completely XGL, as it become useless (for me), because I prefer to use Xorg7.1 with aixgl .
Thank you .

Jupiter1TX · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 546 Location: 3rd Rock

Ok folks today i got MS Window flashbacks

I installed Seamonkey today with no problems
XGl/Compiz worked just fine.
I then installed netscape-flash and now Compiz
will not start. I have removed netscape-flash and
still Compiz will no longer start.
What the F@#$ is the deal with flash and compiz.
I thought these problems with flash were fixed
in compiz months ago.

Has anyone had this problem or have any idea
how to fix it. I have removed flash but compiz
won't start. Am running the LAST version of
xgl/compiz.
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Bloot · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Re-emerge xgl stuff. It happens in my system sometimes, xgl is still buggy, you can live with it thought.

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

It doesn't sound connected to me at all. Even if the events correspond I'm not convinced that flash had anything to do with your problem in compiz. I'm using flash and have no problems with compiz. Can you run an strace of compiz? Is compiz segfaulting or what exactly is it stopping on?

Jupiter1TX · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 546 Location: 3rd Rock

Phlogiston · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:23 am Post subject:

Jupiter1TX: Please do NOT post such big logs, better use pastebin for that. It's quite annoying to scroll through the whole output.

Thanks in advance
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May-C · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

Jupiter1TX:
I had this messages too some time ago. My problem was kde related. If you use kde try something else like gnome or xfce. If you only have kde you can test it with another user or move .kde to something like .kdeback...
If you don't even use kde forget my post :lol:

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grimz · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 53

Incase the KDE users haven't stumbled across this yet, here is a working Kicker for XGL/Compiz/Beryl! (For those that don't know what the Kicker is, it's the thing in the taskbar where you change desktops by clicking on it, etc.)

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021&forummode=2&forumpage=2&forumexplevel=all

piwacet · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 486

Does anyone have comiz-manager working with xfce4? When I try to start compiz-quinnstorm with compiz-manager, there are some errors about not finding the window manager, and then starting a default window manager, which seems to be the xfce4 native window manager itself (which I have, of course, removed from the xfce4 start-up files.) Compiz itself does not acutally start, and there are no xgl-effects. When I start compiz-quinnstorm in a more traditional way (with csm and cgwd) it works perfectly. This is on the current revision 455.

Here's the script /usr/bin/compizrc:

msears · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 30

I updated from compiz-quinnstorm-0.0.13.57 to 0.0.13.57-r1 yesterday, and since then when compiz starts, the screen goes completely white. Because of this, I have yet to get any output so I can't further identify the problem. And just to make it harder, it seems 13.57 has been removed from the overlay. However I did downgrade to 13.56 and it does the same. I recently updated xgl as well, which I will try to downgrade. Does anyone have any insight into the problem?

If I switch to terminal 1 and type "killall compiz", I can switch back and there is no problem with my display. So this must be an issue with compiz at least.

Here is the output from the terminal (same for dbus-launch compiz)

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

The strace looks similar to a problem I had, but I don't believe it was related to flash at all. It was corrected by a later compiz revision and had to do with my 64 bit install. (I found this out by reading the compile log, there were 2 warnings that were the cause of the segfault)

Are you running amd64 or are you running x86?

If you are running amd64, then is it possible for you to do a gdb and bt (backtrace) this? You'd have need to have compiled with features=nostrip.

Also, which version of compiz-quinnstorm are you running? I had problems with this specifically with the cvs, and with 13.51-52 if I remember correctly.