On Tuesday 15 February 2011 03:23:51 Tim Folger wrote: > Hi, > > I just ran one of my weekly upgrades last night (I'm using sid with the > 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem kernel). Now compositing no longer works with kde > (4.4.5). When I click "resume compositing," I get a message saying > "Compositing has been suspended by another application." glxinfo | grep > render says direct rendering is working. But when I run glxgears, I only > get text output, without the animated gears. > > My middle mouse button also stopped working after the upgrade, i.e., I > can't use it to copy and paste; can't open new tabs in any browser. (The > mouse works perfectly in my other two computers, both of which still have > kde 3.5.10 installed.) I'm using the radeon driver. None of these problems > existed before last night's full-upgrade, so the upgrade definitely broke > a few things, and I don't know how to fix them. > > Thanks for any suggestions... > > Tim
Look at the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i opengl'. Does it say something like "OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4"? libgl1-mesa-dri switched over to Gallium drivers for many radeon Cards. Maybe that causes your problem with compositing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

