[compiz] 3 xgl/compiz problems

[Giovanni Masucci]

Alle 01:37, mercoledì 10 maggio 2006, hai scritto:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 00:15 +0200, Giovanni Masucci wrote:
> > SORRY: bad urls, corrected this time:
> >
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> > Looking deeper to compiz/xgl I found three problems in my system that I
> > report to you hoping to be somehow a little useful.
> > I didn't find any of them using Xorg 7
> >
> > First my testing environment:
> > KDE 3.5
> > latest XGL cvs - XORG-7.0
> > Nvidia FX5200 64Mb
> > Latest nvidia drivers
> > Kernel 2.6.16.1
> >
> >
> > XGL problems:
> > 1) xine is somehow broken with xgl, even with no composite managers:
> > it is very slow even when you are not playing videos and its gui  is
> > corrupted:
> > refer to the photo:
> > http://www.divingway.it/img/other/xineunderxgl.png
>
> Bug in xine-ui, I created a fix a long time ago and it should have made
> it upstream. I think that putting "SharedPixmaps off" in ~/.imrc will
> workaround the problem.
>
yes, it works!

> > 2) other visual artifacts come when I try to play wmv videos with XV.
> > No problems with opengl, or others.
> > http://www.divingway.it/img/other/wmvunderxgl.png
>
> Support for XV images with width that is not a multiple of 8 was broken
> in Xgl. This is probably related to that. I just fixed this so please
> give latest CVS version of Xgl a try and let me know if it's still not
> working correctly.
>
mmm...i still have the problem in my system...  still only with wmv files and 
only with xgl

> > Compiz:
> >
> > 1) sometimes with no apparent reasons menu stop showing up.
> > So if for example I try, to click on FILE/EDIT etc nothing appears.
> > Restarting compiz solves the problem for a while.
>
> Is this still a problem with latest CVS version of compiz?
>
Testing with latest cvs...seems to be ok now, but since it comes out 
now and then, I will test a little today and then I'll tell you.