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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

XGL weirdness

I've discovered that XGL won't render correctly for me some of the time. I get a torn, stair-stepped, diagonal effect that makes images and fonts half as tall and impossible to read.

What's interesting is that whether it breaks or not depends on where it's started from:

"xinit /home/ataraxia/.xinitrc.beryl -- /usr/bin/Xgl :0 -accel xv:fbo -accel glx:pbuffer -nolisten tcp" from the command line works.
starting a DM (doesn't matter which one) from the command line works.
starting a DM from rc.conf breaks.
starting a DM by running the /etc/rc.d/ script manually works.
starting a DM from inittab using "initdefault:5" breaks.
starting a DM from inittab using "telinit 5" (after booting to run-level 3) breaks.

I'm running it with the same command line in each case.

I'm not finding the commonalities here to be very relevant... The failure cases are those that have no controlling terminal? Those that don't have some environment variable or another that my shells (for two different users) have?

The hardware is a cheap onboard controller, one of these:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]

I'm not posting xorg.conf since it's the same whether it works or not.

Anybody here who can help me with the first problem I've ever had on Arch?