XGL., anyone wanna join the ride?

Vampyrx · 2006-02-18 13:56:20

Someone can describe all the step to install XGL with Compiz ?
i need to do : pacman -S xorg-server ?
i need to install with CVS : mesa compiz glitz glproto xgl ?
can i use KDE ? or it necessary to use Gnome ?
Do i need anything else ?

So all the step please to install it, it will be very nice please

Mikos · 2006-02-18 15:49:20

!!! UPDATE !!!

All PKGBUILDs were updated to 20060218. I didn't use glitz-0.5.3, because it is only snapshot from latest CVS (snapshot will be outdated after some time, but CVS is always up-to-date ;-)). I also updated glproto to version 1.4.4.

"Black windows" bug should be resolved now (but only for people with older NVidia cards. I think that i810/i915 still have this problem).

You can download it here:
http://mikos.sg1.cz/arch/xgl-abs-overla … 8-1.tar.gz

Mikos · 2006-02-18 15:53:06

azuwis: Please test it if you don't have that bug with my latest 20060218 glitz-cvs PKGBUILD. It really should be fixed in CVS (as I said, glitz-0.5.3 is only snapshot from latest CVS).

Mikos · 2006-02-18 16:17:40

Vampyrx wrote:

Someone can describe all the step to install XGL with Compiz ?
i need to do : pacman -S xorg-server ?
i need to install with CVS : mesa compiz glitz glproto xgl ?
can i use KDE ? or it necessary to use Gnome ?
Do i need anything else ?
So all the step please to install it, it will be very nice please

· First you must upgrade your system to testing. Uncomment 'testing' repo in /etc/pacman.conf and then run 'pacman -Syu'. Especially you must have X.Org 7.0 (so answer "yes" to pacman questions about it). I don't remember if it is uprgraded automatically from old X.Org, so if it isn't, simply install xorg-server package manually. Btw. NVidia drivers must be reinstalled after this step!
· Download my xgl-abs-overlay archive, extract it somewhere and then compile (with makepkg) and install compiled packeges in this order: glproto, mesa-cvs, glitz-cvs, xgl-cvs, cairo-cvs, compiz-cvs.
· You can start Xgl with my startxgl script (you can find it in my xgl-abs-overlay archive). You should edit that script to your liking (for example add setxkbmap if you want something else than US keymap). And remember, you should start it from console!

rasta · 2006-02-18 17:11:26

@Mikos: I'm afraid I have to confirm that the current glitz-cvs has the black windows bug. It worked nice when i modified the PKGBUILD to use the snapshot already mentioned. (Trying this on my father's computer with a Geforce4 Mx420). I haven't made any furher research in the difference of these two versions of glitz but probably you could just diff them to see. Strange.

big_gie · 2006-02-18 18:04:22

I'm having trouble compiling mesa-cvs... I'm in a console so I can't paste the exact error, but it looks like "deferencing pointer to incomplete type" in glxcontextmode.c
Anyone having a clue?

Edit: the first error seems to be:
glxcontextmodes.c:45:20: error: X11/X.h File not found
after make had entered directory "$startdir/src/Mesa-build/src/glx/x11"

By what package should X11/X.h be owned?

Mikos · 2006-02-18 18:57:57

big_gie wrote:

I'm having trouble compiling mesa-cvs... I'm in a console so I can't paste the exact error, but it looks like "deferencing pointer to incomplete type" in glxcontextmode.c
Anyone having a clue?
Edit: the first error seems to be:
glxcontextmodes.c:45:20: error: X11/X.h File not found
after make had entered directory "$startdir/src/Mesa-build/src/glx/x11"
By what package should X11/X.h be owned?

[mikos@tauri ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/include/X11/X.h
/usr/include/X11/X.h is owned by xproto 7.0.4-2

Do you have updated testing system? It is a must.

Mikos · 2006-02-18 19:02:51

rasta wrote:

@Mikos: I'm afraid I have to confirm that the current glitz-cvs has the black windows bug. It worked nice when i modified the PKGBUILD to use the snapshot already mentioned. (Trying this on my father's computer with a Geforce4 Mx420). I haven't made any furher research in the difference of these two versions of glitz but probably you could just diff them to see. Strange.

This is really strange. I will try to diff them... let's see what's going on here ;-)

Mikos · 2006-02-18 19:08:18

azuwis wrote:

cairo-cvs break some GTK2 applications, like stardict and xchat. But gvim and firefox work fine.
I suggest install cairo-cvs into /opt/cairo, and use "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/cairo/lib/ gnome-window-decorator &" to lauch gnome-window-decorator.

I don't have any problems with cairo-cvs. It works without problems for me (I don't have xchat installed, but I tested stardict and no problem here). Can you try to recompile pango and then gtk2 against cairo-cvs? You can find PKGBUILDs here (of course run abs before it ;-)):

/var/abs/testing/lib/pango
/var/abs/lib/gtk2

big_gie · 2006-02-18 19:19:36

This is was I suspected.

I just "pacman -S xorg" to download less then the 350MB from testing...

I'm downloading 350MB of packages from "pacman -Su" right now. Thanx for the suggestion. Will edit post is it corrects things.

Mikos · 2006-02-18 19:38:34

azuwis & rasta: I have used "Compare directories" command in mc and there aren't differencies in source files between glitz-0.5.3 and latest CVS. So there must be some other problem, maybe in autogen.sh / configure procedure?

rasta · 2006-02-18 19:43:44

Mikos wrote:

azuwis & rasta: I have used "Compare directories" command in mc and there aren't differencies in source files between glitz-0.5.3 and latest CVS. So there must be some other problem, maybe in autogen.sh / configure procedure?

Actually, the only difference between the pkgbuild i made for the snapshot (except for removing cvs stuff) is that i removed ./autogen.sh since there is no autogen.sh in the snapshot. Don't know what that could change.

Mikos · 2006-02-18 20:01:50

rasta: You must run autogen.sh script in CVS sources tree. It runs libtoolize, aclocal, autoheader, automake and autoconf. 'configure' script is generated in this process. In snapshot (tarball), this process is already done by creator of that tarball. So there autogen.sh isn't needed.

Vampyrx · 2006-02-18 23:48:16

I have some problems with the CVS of XGL, when i do : makepkg i have a probleme with XSERVERCFLAGS it can t find the package requirements i need to adjust this var or the PKG CONFIG PATH but i don t know, can you help me ?

sp0rk173 · 2006-02-19 00:04:34

Thanks for all the hard work, guys! I'm now running XGL on my FX5700 and everything works and looks beautifully. I had to make one notable change. When installing the built cairo-cvs pkg, I got a conflict with cairo that was already installed. I told it to remove the old cairo, but it complained about possible broken dependencies. So i changed the pkgname in the cairo-cvs PKGBUILD to simply "cairo", ran makepkg, did a pacman -U cairo-cvs-20060218-1.pkg.tar.gz, and everything went smoothly. xchat, gaim, and all gtk2 apps run perfectly. No "black winow" bug that i've read about on here. It just works.

Thanks again!

Mikos · 2006-02-19 00:23:23

sp0rk173 wrote:

I had to make one notable change. When installing the built cairo-cvs pkg, I got a conflict with cairo that was already installed. I told it to remove the old cairo, but it complained about possible broken dependencies.

This is not necessary. Cairo-cvs replaces cairo. You can do 'pacman -Rd cairo' and then install cairo-cvs.

big_gie · 2006-02-19 02:30:09

Thanx for the PKGBUILDs!

I had to modify the one for glitz-cvs. make couldn't find GL/gl.h (from mesa-cvs surely)... I added "--x-includes/opt/mesa-cvs/includes --x-libraries=/opt/mesa-cvs/lib" to the configure line.
I'm compiling xgl-cvs now.
Anyone else had this problem? If not, how come?!

Edit:
I'm having the same problem with compiz-cvs, but adding the command line options to autogen didn't solve it...

Mikos · 2006-02-19 05:56:31

big_gie wrote:

Thanx for the PKGBUILDs!
I had to modify the one for glitz-cvs. make couldn't find GL/gl.h (from mesa-cvs surely)... I added "--x-includes/opt/mesa-cvs/includes --x-libraries=/opt/mesa-cvs/lib" to the configure line.
I'm compiling xgl-cvs now.
Anyone else had this problem? If not, how come?!
Edit:
I'm having the same problem with compiz-cvs, but adding the command line options to autogen didn't solve it...

No, you shouldn't do that! Glitz must see your real accelerated GL libraries, not unaccelerated libraries from mesa-cvs. This was reason why I choose to install mesa-cvs to /opt/mesa-cvs and not to /usr.

If you have problems like this, I think that you don't have properly installed graphics OpenGL drivers (NVidia, ATI, ATI r200 DRI, etc.).

Remenic · 2006-02-19 13:30:11

when trying to build xgl-server, I get the following error during the ./autogen.sh step:

autoheader: cannot rename /tmp/arz10119/ahl10348/config.hin as include/do-not-use-config.h.in: No such file or directory

Also, since freedesktop.org has changed their cvs servers, I changed the one for xserver and mesa to anoncvs.freedesktop.org.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

[edit]The problem fixed itself, after I re-checked out everything from CVS a few hours later.[/edit]

Cimi · 2006-02-19 15:06:07

mikos could you make PKGBUILD for gxlcompmgr to include in your package?

big_gie · 2006-02-19 17:21:36

Mikos wrote:

big_gie wrote:
Thanx for the PKGBUILDs!
I had to modify the one for glitz-cvs. make couldn't find GL/gl.h (from mesa-cvs surely)... I added "--x-includes/opt/mesa-cvs/includes --x-libraries=/opt/mesa-cvs/lib" to the configure line.
I'm compiling xgl-cvs now.
Anyone else had this problem? If not, how come?!
Edit:
I'm having the same problem with compiz-cvs, but adding the command line options to autogen didn't solve it...
No, you shouldn't do that! Glitz must see your real accelerated GL libraries, not unaccelerated libraries from mesa-cvs. This was reason why I choose to install mesa-cvs to /opt/mesa-cvs and not to /usr.
If you have problems like this, I think that you don't have properly installed graphics OpenGL drivers (NVidia, ATI, ATI r200 DRI, etc.).

Thanx. I removed that.
To make it work I followed : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xo … d_Problems
It states to remove the headers from /usr/include/GL and create simlinks to the accelerated ones (/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/*) Everything compiles now...

Mikos · 2006-02-19 17:37:32

Cimi wrote:

mikos could you make PKGBUILD for gxlcompmgr to include in your package?

glxcompmgr doesn't work with current Xgl code. It was predecessor of Compiz.

Cimi · 2006-02-19 17:51:34

Mikos wrote:

Cimi wrote:
mikos could you make PKGBUILD for gxlcompmgr to include in your package?
glxcompmgr doesn't work with current Xgl code. It was predecessor of Compiz.

You're wrong... glxcompmgr works over metacity I.E.... Yes it is less stable but I saw it working one week ago in a gentoo box

Cimi · 2006-02-19 17:56:10

I'm hoping that I'm in the thruth

http://users.skynet.be/muaddib/my-xglov … 10.tar.bz2

Mikos · 2006-02-19 18:05:27

Cimi wrote:

I'm hoping that I'm in the thruth
http://users.skynet.be/muaddib/my-xglov … 10.tar.bz2

Well, maybe there is some patch to make it work with latest Xgl. But I am sure it didn't work in time when I started with my xgl-abs-overlay. You can look to Gentoo Forums, it was discussed there.

I don't see reason to use unmaintained and unstable glxcompmgr if there is much more stable and actively maintained Compiz. Yes, you can use it with other window managers, but in my opinion it's not worth it.

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