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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2005 3:05 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Laptop nVidia GF4 problems with composite Reply with quote

Hi,
I have a laptop (Dell Latitude D800) with a 32 MB nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Go. When I try to do any composite rendering stuff (either by enabling Shadows/Transparency in KDE or using xcompmgr), X hangs within seconds, requiring a hard reboot. It usually happens when transparency and shadows try to work at the same time, although it is almost as bad with just one of them enabled.
I'm using xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1, love-sources-2.6.11-r2, nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 and nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r4. My xorg.conf is as follows:
Code:

Section "Files"
    RgbPath   "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/local/fonts"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts"
EndSection

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

Section "Module"
    Load   "dbe"
    Load   "glx"
    SubSection   "extmod"
   Option   "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load   "type1"
    Load   "freetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option   "blank time"   "10"
    Option   "standby time"   "10"
    Option   "suspend time"   "10"
    Option   "off time"   "10"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Dell Latitude D800 Keyboard"
    Driver   "kbd"
    Option   "AutoRepeat"   "100 1"
    Option   "Xleds"   "1 2 3"
    Option   "XkbModel"   "pc104"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Razer Diamondback"
    Driver   "mouse"
    Option   "Device"   "/dev/input/mice"
    Option   "Protocol"   "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option   "ZAxisMapping"   "6 7"
    Option   "Buttons"   "7"
    Option   "Resolution"   "1600"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Dell Latitude D800 Monitor"
    HorizSync   30-107
    VertRefresh   50-185
    Option   "DPMS"
    ModeLine   "1280x800" 159.74 1280 1296 1552 1664 800 800 815 835
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Go"
    Driver   "nvidia"
    Option   "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling=centered"
    Option   "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option   "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier   "Dell Latitude D800 Screen"
    Device   "nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Go"
    Monitor   "Dell Latitude D800 Monitor"
    DefaultDepth   24
    SubSection   "Display"
        Depth      24
        Modes      "1280x800"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier   "Main Layout"
    Screen   "Dell Latitude D800 Screen" "" "" "" ""
    InputDevice   "Razer Diamondback" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Dell Latitude D800 Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Disabling RenderAccel fixes the hangs, but at an extreme cost in performance. Can anyone help?


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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2005 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure about this but I think that there is some problem with renderaccel and 1.0.7* drivers.
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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, pussi!

IT WORKED!!! Reverting to 6629 solved the problem automagically. Now my desktop runs a little slower with all those shadows and transparencies, but it's cool as hell ("cool as hell" - I never thought I'd say that)! Might actually make a few people convert to Linux :P

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