XGL and NVIDIA

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject:

Does not help.. Do you have gnome already installed?

sleipner · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 48

i have gnome-light. do you use ebuild Nihilus made?

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject:

I used Hanno's ones and before that ji?? or something (other thread page 18?), I think these are the ones Nihilus links to in his post.

I'll try again tonight.

ianegg · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

The decoration plugin won't do anything with KDE yet, as there is no working kde-window-decorator. There is no shadow plugin, as I believe shadows are a part of the decorator.

So for the moment, if you want to get any useability out of compiz, you'll need Gnome. Glxcompmgr works fine with KDE for me, but was giving me black windows until Mesa was updated, and I patched it to not check for GLX_MESA_render_texture. I'm currently using pijalu's mesa-6.4.3_alpha20060209-r2 snapshot, and everything else from Hanno.

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

But can't I use it as the window manager instead of xfce4's standard window manager? It might look a bit weird and have some quirks, but should work..

Nihilus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 80

These files are know to work under Gentoo and Debian-unstable running Xorg 6.9(!);
http://pi.nxs.se/~nihilus/
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poppa · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Gah, I cant spend any time this morning. Gotta get to work.

It would be nice if someone collected the current working overlays and put them on the wiki

I may do it tonight if I can; and add what I found getting this up on my box.

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I'm using the latest experimental driver for nvidia (I think):

Nihilus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 80

Mikos · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

For those of you who are build compiz and finding no gnome-window-decorator upon compilation it turns out that compiz (the configure file generated by autogen.sh) looks for pangocairo.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. So if you want to be able to use the gnome-window-decorator you must insure that cairo is installed and that gtk+ and pango are built against it (gtk+ depends on pango(which generates pangocairo.pc) which depends on cairo-the dependencies are more involved that what I show here but ....)

Once you install cairo and build pango and gtk+ against it voila gnome-window-decorator magically appears...

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

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ianegg · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject:

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ianegg · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: Re: XGL and NVIDIA

Donpasquale · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 150 Location: Munich

i just tried to install everything. i have installed pailoś mesa and the other compiz, xgl ... xgl also starts up fine with some font warnings which is i suppose normal.

But if i want to start compiz it just segfaults. i tried to strace it but it is some mmap command which produces the segfault. could it be because of my sli system?

Mikos · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:40 am Post subject:

For all those with problems:

Do you have Composite extension in your xorg.conf enabled or disabled? It should be *disabled*. But I don't know if it is linked with your problems...

Mikos · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:

Btw. there was some change (linked to Xgl) in Mesa-cvs recently, maybe it can also help?

You can look here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9694910&forum_id=33172

wintersommer · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 33

@ MIKOS: i know what you postet | but i tried all combinations (composite on/off , renderaccell on/off , allow GL with composite on/off)

still i get BLACK windows :-(

anyone here who FIXED the black windows problem ?

DeeZiD · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 34

@wintersommer

which card do you have?
I reproduced this problem with Geforce2MX and Geforce4MX cards.
My new NVIDIA Geforce6600GT does'nt have this problem.

This must be a bug in Xgl or Mesa.

regards Dennis

wintersommer · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 33

gforce 4 mx (black windows) build 11 Feb. 2 am.

sque · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

Geforce FX 5700 / MSI
Driver: 8178

Problem: Black Windows
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utpark · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

I resolve the problem of Black Windows.

# eselect opengl list
[1] nvidia *
[2] opengl
[3] xorg-x11

# eselect opengl set 3

# emerge compiz

# eselect opengl set 1

p.s. Sorry my poor english.