On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:40 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 08 May 2009 23:23:57 you wrote: >> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >> >> <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: >> > On Friday 08 May 2009 10:59:26 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >> >> On Fri, 8 May 2009 08:25:49 -0500 >> >> >> >> "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Sam, Danny, J., all >> >> > >> >> > I am working with the radeon and radeonhd drivers seeing if I can >> >> > get them to work with compiz 0.8.2.1 on my radeon x1200 laptop. My >> >> > xorg .conf is: >> >> > >> >> > Section "Device" >> >> > BoardName "RV350 NP" >> >> > # Driver "radeon" >> >> > Driver "radeonhd" >> >> > Identifier "Device[0]" >> >> > VendorName "ATI" >> >> > EndSection >> >> > >> >> > I have tried both the radeon and radeon hd driver with same >> >> > results. Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is >> >> > going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and >> >> > redrawing each window, but then it never actually starts. The windows >> >> > are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide in put to >> >> > them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace >> >> > causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows >> >> > then redrawn with kde decor. >> >> > >> >> > Does anybody have and idea what's happening and how to fix it? >> >> > Thanks. >> >> >> >> Assuming you have the Mesa 3D drivers installed and working properly, >> >> then yes, compiz will work just fine. >> >> >> >> What distribution is this, and how are you trying to start compiz? >> >> What's the output of 'glxinfo'? >> >> >> >> Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Adam, >> > >> > I mesa is loaded, but I'm not sure what you mean by Mesa 3D. I >> > just know it as Mesa. Here is what is loaded: >> > >> > (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer >> > (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control >> > >> > Do I need something else? >> >> I had a problem similar to this on Gentoo. I'd kick off compiz and no >> borders, no errors, nothing. Then I realized everything was working >> fine, compiz just wasn't configured at all. Figured it was just >> stupid defaults on Gentoo, perhaps its more global that that. Try >> this - launch compiz however you do form a terminal, then run ccsm. >> Start enabling stuff. under window management make sure you get 'move >> window' and 'resize window' and application switcher at the very >> least. for image loading, select everything. Under effects select >> 'window decorations'. Under utility select 'dbus', 'glib' & >> 'inotify'. Try that, it should get you basic functionality. Beyond >> that, its all however much bling you want. Most of the shiny comes >> from 'wobbly windows', '3d windows' and 'animations' tho. >> >> How that helps. >> >> Wil > > Wil, > > You are a genious! I never would have believed it. The current install > is on > archlinux. Most of my other installs are opensuse (where a fglrx driver is > available). All I did was rsync my .config/compiz/compizconfig from an > opensuse box over to my archlinux box, started compiz again and Presto! All > was well in the world -- well almost ;-) > > Man this was strange?? Is the default config distro specific or is it a > compiz generic issues that could be tweaked here? > > Only other strange issues for compiz with the radeonhd driver is that > when I > run glxgears, the background for the gears is completely transparent (100% > gone). Additionally, shift switcher does not erase the original windows > before drawing the shift switch windows (the gradient draws correctly though) > See: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/shiftswitch.jpg > > After closing all apps and restarting them shiftswitch seems ok?? > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/shiftswitch.jpg > > Only real downside so far with the radeonhd driver is the frame-rates > in > glxgears is about 1/5 what it was with the fglrx driver (Current: 188 FPS, > w/fglrx: 1000 FPS). But the desktop effects work smoothly, etc.. The only > noticeable lag is with rotate cube and on window resize, but it isn't that > bad either. > > Thanks again! > > cc: radeo...@opensuse.org > > Guys see also, the glxinfo output and Xorg.0.log: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/glxinfo-radeonhd > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/Xorg.0.log
Cool. I suspect this is the just the compiz default, why I have no idea. The fglrx driver is typically faster than either open source drivers in 3D, but I'll take the performance hit over a binary blob any day. I noticed in your logs you are using XAA, you can see if switching to EXA makes any of the issues go away. Alternately, theres the xf86-video-ati driver you can try as well. It shares a lot of code with radeonhd but sometimes it works better. Wil _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz