XOrg 6.7.99.x / 6.8.0

ksuther

I've also been unable to get this running with the ATI drivers. After emerging xorg-x11, running opengl-update xorg-x11 then opengl-update ati, seems to work. I've a dual head setup, and only after switching to the ATI drivers can I use both heads. i.e. xorg-x11 drivers just give me a cloned 2nd head, rather than a separate one!

However, whenever I access any OpenGl functions, it just goes! It looks liks a complete hard freeze. no mouse, no nothing. However I can ssh from elsewhere on my network. X is not running. So ther is nothing to kill. I have to "startx" or restart GDM. Even running glxinfo can do this.

Also Gnome gives the same errors. Using the xorg-x11 drivers, i can run Gnome perfectly (2.6), but with the ATI propreitary drivers, it gives the above errors!!

Oh well, I'm sure (hope) that ATI may provide new drivers soon! (not that I'm sure that it's their drivers at fault!)

Cheers
Ferg[/quote]

I'm having this too. Do you have this error in your xorg log?

No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = -1 (-1), nplanes = 0

No clue what it means, but i doesn't seem right

perchut2 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject:

i've got exactly the same. I believed it was because loading glx in xorg.conf didn't load opengl from the ati drivers but the mesa ones.
But this is still quite complicated for me

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playfool · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

is it just me or does this thing redraw like a lighting when using RenderAccel on nvidia's latest drivers - I have never seen X redraw this fast.. it's just awesome.

Al_bin · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: 6.7.99.903

shredz · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

well that sure looks nice. Considering I've got a gf3 and a 50-page paper to read I'm merging this latest version. Anyone started making an expose-patch for kwin already btw ?

Reverent · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 17

psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

tried gnome with the radeon driver and xcompmgr (metacity compositor disabled) .All are ok after the pixmap problems got addressed.Waimea has some probs with the background ( if set ,it gets artifacts) and the shading event (these are easily fixable).On the other way using the crappy fglrx whore my screen is an artifact mess.However even if these issues with ati get fixed theres render accel which perfoms even worse than the radeon driver and i highly doubt it will be ever fixed so this is a good reason for me to upgrade to an nvidia when the time comes....(i wont bother mentioning the opengl performance :twisted:

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tactless · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

First of all, I'm lovin' it! My girlfriend was complaining about how utterly stupid existing fake-transparency was, and she'll love this when she gets home.
Here's testing that I've done with xorg-x11 6.8.0 RC3. I'm using nvidia binaries of version 6111, kernel 2.6.7.

Interesting note: /var/tmp permissions were incorrect. They need to be 1777 (rwxrwxrwt), or the kbd driver causes problems. These problems did not seem to exist in previous versions of X[org/Free]. Changing the permissions solves this.
I use Openbox3. xcompmgr closes all preexisting windows on startup and shutdown. I've tried it with KDE3.2, however, and all of the windows reappeared properly.
Using the -f option for xcompmgr causes Mozilla's menus to be invisible at times. I can live without the (extremely wicked) fading effect, but I thought I should mention it.
Finally, I've tried OpenGL apps while xcompmgr is operational. Quake 3 works. GLXgears works. UT2004demo works, but causes xcompmgr to crash - which, as I've mentioned, causes all open windows to go away. TORCS causes the X server to restart.
All in all, a very solid prerelease. Composite is turned off by default, and I doubt that they'll have it ready to be on by default by 6.8.0 final, but the progress is quick, and with cooperation from nVidia (and ATI), I don't think it will take too long. Keep up the good work, fd.o!
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

meital · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 93

I've just emerged xorg-x11-6.7.99.903 and I can't startx anymore because it cant find the screen

this is my Xorg.0.log :

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

KingPunk · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

meital · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 93

I guess DeepThought would'nt misspell "Extensions" :wink:

I've changed it but it still won't do, now it cant find the keyboard :oops:

KingPunk · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject:

DFanick · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject: xorg with shadows

on my p4 with nvidia geforce2(64mb) everything compiled fine.

today i learned how to activate server-sided shadows and transparancy with xorg-4.7.99 and the gnome-2.6 ebuild.

Screenshot: http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/xorg_snap.jpg

I did it with an polish tutorial even if i don't know a word polish (the important things are highlightened):
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=213246&highlight=gnome+2+7

It looks and feels realy brilliant!

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shredz · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

Got it working on nvidia 53.xx drivers in KDE. Works really well apparently, only mplayer acts all weird once it gets "thrown in the mix". Probably due to xv driver acting weird or something.

Since we're all screening anyway, here's my shot.
http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~sstommel/pwnt.jpg

Really looking forward to the millions of eye candy patches coming our way

edit: the translucency really needs integrating, turned it off already since everything translucent gives me a headache... still looks cool though hehe

tactless · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

DFanick · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: Console

@aethyr:

What does "NWS" mean?

It's not my girlfiend on the wallpaper anyway. But with my new transparant konsole i bet i'll get her - haha.

Nice greetings out of Hamburg to all of you boys!

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John5788 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: Console

DFanick · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: i like it

btw:
i can now watch "mplayer -vo x11" through other windows even if it's awfully slow when zoomed to 1280x1024.

This day is a bit like christmas...

DFanick · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject: so cool

Maybe you'll think that I'm a talkaholic, but I want to write that it is even possible to make the x11-video-output transparant. With a compiling console in the background it looks everthing like "matrix".

But ain't everything the "matrix"?

KingPunk · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: so cool