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SomeGuyDude

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 271

Can't enable composite in X

Hey folks. Did the thing in the beginner's guide, decided I didn't need the composite thing, didn't enable it.

A little later I changed my mind and decided I wanted the effects, so I went into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added that section from the beginner's guide:

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

No go. So I open up the ArchWiki and find the directions for my graphics card (generic intel driver). They say it's default, but maybe I need those extra options:

Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"

Still nothing. So I go back and remove "Sections "Extensions"" thinking maybe the redundancy is causing my problem. Once again, I have no composite abilities.

Am I missing anything?

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anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 834

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Re: Can't enable composite in X

Hi, without going into details about your specific problems I have to warn you that there is a bug where "ExaNoComposite" beign true or false both result in DISABLING it. Anyhow, default is true so you can comment it out...   as for this bug, it was "fixed", but it still happens:

(**) intel(0): Option "EXANoComposite" "false"
(II) intel(0): EXA: Disabling Composite operation (RENDER acceleration)

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