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veeti

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Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 7

Compiz, GNOME & catalyst-test: white window contents

I'm sure topics involving proprietary ATi drivers are everybody's favourite, but I'm having some trouble with installing Compiz and getting it to work.

Compiz works otherwise. but all the window & menu contents are not displayed - instead, all I see is white. Fortunately, the GNOME top panel still works so that I can blindly use the terminal to kill Compiz and do metacity --replace.

(I'm lauching it using fusion-icon).

I've got GNOME installed, and I've installed catalyst-test from AUR. My graphics card is a Radeon HD4890. glxinfo reports direct rendering and every 3D application works with no problems. compiz-check, however, says the following:

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Arch Linux 
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         ATI Technologies Inc RV790 [Radeon HD 4800 Series]
 Driver in use:         fglrx
 Rendering method:      None

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)

I've disabled KMS, as instructed in IRC - no luck.

And just to make sure, here's the procedure I did to install the drivers:

1. Downloaded the catalyst-test package from AUR
2. Did makepkg
3. sudo pacman -U (resulting package name)
4. Added fglrx to modules (and dmesg shows fglrx messages, so it's loaded)
5. Generated Xorg.conf

Here is my Xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

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

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Virtual 1744 1050        
            Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by veeti (2010-04-24 12:58:04)