[compiz] Compiz not working properly using nvidia twinview

Dennis Kasprzyk onestone at opencompositing.org
Mon Aug 27 14:48:29 PDT 2007


It depends on you graphic card. glxinfo -l will show you your card limits.
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = ???? is the important value here.

Dennis

Am Montag 27 August 2007 23:34:52 schrieb Gustavo Tenrreiro:
> What is the maximum combined resolution that compiz supports? Or does it
> depend on the video card?
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> Thanks
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> From: compiz-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> [mailto:compiz-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Kasprzyk
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:22 PM
> To: compiz at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Gustavo Tenrreiro
> Subject: Re: [compiz] Compiz not working properly using nvidia twinview
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> It looks like that the combined resolution of your both monitors is bigger
> than your maximum opengl texture size. Currently we have no working
> solution to fix this.
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> Dennis
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> Am Montag 27 August 2007 22:03:54 schrieb Gustavo Tenrreiro:
> > Hi,
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> > I am running ubuntu 7.10 gutsy, and I have compiz working on one monitor
> > ( a bit slow though ). When I add twinview to the mix compiz still comes
> > up, and sort of works but:
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> > 1.       I loose the background and it is replace by all white
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> > 2.       The second monitor draws about 30% of the new white background,
> > then it ends with a bit of a shadow, and then it continues with black
> >
> > 3.       I can drag windows on the second screen and they get redrawn
> > as I move them as long as I am on the white part, as soon as I go the
> > black I can see the window, but it leaves a trail of windows, so it is
> > not redrawing the black part.
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> > Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
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> > Xeon 2.4Ghz , 2GB memory, nvidia quadro nvs 280
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> > Thanks
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