[compiz] Problem with shadows and the new NVIDIA drivers

[David Reveman]

Convolution filter support is broken in your X server. It's fixed in Xgl
and latest version of Xorg.

-David

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:11 -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying out the new NVIDIA drivers and everything seems to be working
> great except that shadows are rendered incorrectly - as solid black (or what
> ever the shadow colour happens to be) without the gradient effect. Setting
> the opacity level of the shadows makes no difference.
> 
> This occurs with Beryl too, but I don't think it's actually a bug in either
> program but something to do with how I built them. If it was a widespread
> problem, I'm sure we'd have heard much more about it. I read one report
> that someone had seen this a few weeks back when using Redhat's AIGLX with
> an ATI card and had fixed it by compiling against a different version of
> Mesa. I've tried using the nvidia headers, mesa 6.5.1 and the latest
> mesa cvs - all with the same results. (And in all cases I've linked against
> the nvidia libraries).
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --phil
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