XGL and NVIDIA

billfrith · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

Hi Coffeebuzz

I've been using you overlay since last Sunday, it's really great, thanks for all your efforts.

I just thought you might like to know that I tried re-emerging everything with the latest overlay last night (20:00 GMT 23rd March) and xgl wouldn't compile because the glitz-0.5.4_alpha20060223.ebuild is checking out version 0.5.3 of glitz, evidently something's gone a bit wrong with the CVS database. If you change the date of the ebuild to glitz-0.5.4_alpha20060224.ebuild the version is bumped to 0.5.4 but emerge Xgl bombs out with an error. You need to use the 0.5.5 ebuild to get it to work at the moment.

Thanks again

If this is fixed in CVS sorry for the bother.

Bill

vb2000 · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

Yesterday I installed xgl by following the HOWTO_XGL, everything compiled without any problems, however after installing xgl I didn't have a Xgl binary.
I even tried previous versions of xgl which also compiled without any problems, but also didn't produce a Xgl binary.

Does anyone know how I can solve this?. I'm running AMD64 with nvidia-glx-1.0.8178 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3.

billfrith · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

Hi lafiel

That's the problem I was having, sorry if my post above didn't make it clear. If glitz 0.5.3 is emerged xgl compiles ok, but there is no Xgl server built, no error is given. You need to emerge coffeebuzz's 0.5.5 ebuild. It seems to be unmasked now, if you do an "svn up" you should be able to emerge it.

Bill

vb2000 · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

that did the trick, thanks billfrith

anyNiXwilldo · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 176 Location: US

I started building a test system on a spare partition a couple of nights ago. I finally finished it and installed Xgl. It works like a charm! However, there is one issue that I can't figure out. Before installing Xgl, I had setup Metacity to work left-handed, that is, with the close, maximize and minimize buttons on the left hand side. Under Xgl, these buttons exist on the right hand side instead. Yet, gconf-editor still shows the configuration to have these buttons on the left. If there isn't anything I can do to fix this I certainly won't complain. Xgl is totally amazing and I would have no probs using it like this.
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vb2000 · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

Vurdak · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:14 am Post subject:

nirax · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:03 am Post subject:

hi all,

i installed quite without problems modular X, XGL in combination with nvidia.
however when i start my xfce4 session with

codemaker · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:12 am Post subject:

Xamindar · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: Re: XGL and NVIDIA

nirax · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:41 am Post subject:

thanks codemaker for the information,

but if the workplace-functions lack some functionality currently, how are we supposed to be able to perform something like moving windows through workplaces and such ?

i find in the xgl wiki the possibility to switch a desktop while having the active window following with shift-ctrl-alt-left/right arrow. but thats all but handy in daily work. is there no possibility like dragging the window outside of the current workplace having the cube rotate automatically (like it happens 2dimensional in Fluxbox)

greetings,
nirax
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codemaker · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject:

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SpikeXtrem · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:

Just a general question,
if anyone has the answer I would be glad to read it. I own a Geforce 6800 (not GS, LE, GT or anything else, straight 6800)

It's not a cheap card, far from it. And there's no DRI support for it at this point. Why is that? And can I expect to see DRI support for my card in Xgl in a close future?

I'm a little disapointed, but it's a really good video card though. I'll rely on windows to play my games for now.
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SpikeXtrem · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:

Since I'm here, I updated Xgl and a couple of packages today and now my workspace witcher is gone huge. Like shown on this screenshot.

Anybody encountered this problem? It's weird, like every desktop icon is the width of all normal desktop icons together.
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unz · l33t Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 819 Location: Roma, Italia

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:31 am Post subject:

unz · l33t Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 819 Location: Roma, Italia

SpikeXtrem · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

nik0p01 · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

I've installed Xgl and so on but I have one problem (see inside) with text in menu...
I think it something wrong with unicode, but I dont really know what

thx in advance

Xamindar · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:

your link doesnt work.

codemaker · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

works for me...

brazzmonkey · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:04 am Post subject:

just to let you know i tried xgl+compiz thanks to kororaa livecd on my system (i have an old nvidia geforce2 mx 32 mb, amd duron 1300 mhz and 9xx mb RAM)

i was impressed : everything was smooth and pleasant despite my (now) weak video card.

two things though : i haven't tried transparency yet, and screen resolution was 1024x768 i think (i prefer 1600x1200 in everyday use)

still, it looks promising and i'm eagerly waiting for kde4 + xgl...

Tiger683 · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

Just to let ppl know...
New nvidia driver out, and NO GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap in it

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