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YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

I've upgraded libgl-dri, and now my xcompmgr aint working anymore. It does show up and boot and works for 10 seconds. But then it just disappears.  I'm using it in combination with gnome.

My .xinitrc:

xcompmgr -c &
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session

Xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
    Option        "RENDER" "Enable"
    Option        "DAMAGE" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Option        "AGPMode" "8"
    Option        "EnablePageFlip" "True"
    Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option        "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    Option        "BackingStore" "True"
    Option        "ColorTiling" "True"
    Identifier      "Card0"
    Driver          "radeon"
    VendorName      "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName       "RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
    BusID           "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

I does not show up any failure in the console, does anybody know what the problem could be?

eric

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From: under heaven

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

I have the same problem with KDE. Before the upgrade (libx11, libgl-dri and xorg-server) shadow and transparancy worked well in KDE.

I also have an other problem after this upgrade. The screen turns to black (as if the system goes into standby mode; the led of my monitor turns from green to orange). Keyboard and mouse are not working (or I can't see if they're working), switching to console is not possible.

YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

The last update, which updated libgl-dri and libx11 has fixed the problem for me

Eric do you still have problems with xcompmgr?

Edit:
Hoi Nederlander

eric

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From: under heaven

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

Hoi YscO,

For me the problem is also gone

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

I've been playing with the AccelMethod option and now found that firefox seems to be affected by it a lot. Compare EXA to XAA when scrolling the frontpage of archlinux.org.

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YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

My first impression is that it is a lot faster with XAA.... :shock:

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: After upgrade libgl-dri, xcompmgr isn't working.... [solved]

My first impression is that it is a lot faster with XAA.... :shock:

Yup yup.

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I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell