On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Felipe Lotas Asta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > I've been looking for some weeks for a solution for this, and have > asked > in two forums but got no solution. > > I have: > ArchLinux > Gnome 2.26.1 > xorg-server 1.6.1-1 > xorg-server-utils 7.4-6 > compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-1 > compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-1 > ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 > xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2 > > The problem is that Compiz is very unstable. Some weeks ago it was > working smoothly. Then came some Xorg, xf86-video-ati and Compiz > updates > all of a sudden and compiz started to crash very frequently, logging > me > out to GDM. Then came some more updates and thing has become better > but > still is crashing. Facts: > > 1. Starting Gnome session with Compiz-fusion but without Fusion-icon > works for a while. Then, suddenly, X crashes and I get back to GDM. > 2. If I start Gnome with Metacity everything works nice, but as soon > as > I run compiz-fusion with fusion-icon it logs me out. > 3. No error messages on Xorg.log. > 4. I tried to run Fusion-icon from terminal redirecting the output > to a > file to see if there is some error message but got no luck... no > message > at all. > 5. I don't know where to look at for the error, neither know how to > know > if it's a bug and, in that case, if that's related to gnome, compiz, > xorg, xf86-video-ati or what... But in the compiz-fusion forum I was > told that probably is a Xorg bug. > 6. If I remove the "EXA" acceleration method or change it for "XAA" > then > X doesn't crash but i cannot play videos and performance is worse. > > Any information needed just ask, please. Thanks for everything...
Do you know what versions of the packages you were using previously? Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
