[compiz] Many thanks for compiz-0.7.6, but 1 box now experiences WSOD

[David C. Rankin]

Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 	Thanks for a great compiz-0.7.6. The cylinder takes a little warming up to, 
>> but is really cool. Of all the boxes I have updated, I have one that now 
>> experiences the White Screen of Death (WSOD) when compiz is started. Killing X 
>> with ctrl+alt+backspace or ssh from remote and kill compiz and emerald is the 
>> only way out.
>>
>> 	The box was working fine with fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE103-8.476-1 and compiz-0.7.4. 
>> After update to compiz-0.7.6., the black white cube appears. I have updated the 
>> fglrx driver to 8.493-1, but the same white cube appears.
>>
>> 	Compiz starts, but just before, or during the splash screen, the desktop turns 
>> white.
>>
>> 	What do you suggest I check? Is there anything I should change in the 
>> Default.ini file? Thanks for your help.
> 
> A white screen is an almost sure sign of broken / improperly installed
> drivers. Most likely, the wrong libGL is used by Compiz (the Mesa one,
> not the FGLRX one), so that binding the pixmaps to textures fails.
> 
> I don't know how to solve that for OpenSuse, but that's the direction I
> would search in.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Danny
> 
> 

Hmmm...,

	Running compiz-manager fixed the problem, as did simply adding the old fixes 
to ~/.config/compiz/fusion-icon:

ignore-desktop-hints = true
no-libgl-fallback = true
indirect rendering = true
loose binding = false
sm-disable = true

No more white cube. I have since removed the additional fusion-icon arguments 
keeping the default of:

indirect rendering = true
loose binding = false

	It now starts just fine. I don't know any more than that. Chock this one up to 
Gremlins. It's fixed now. Thanks.

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