[compiz] Will radeon or radeonhd work with compiz?

Sat May 9 00:40:29 PDT 2009

On Friday 08 May 2009 23:23:57 you wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 May 2009 10:59:26 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >> On Fri, 8 May 2009 08:25:49 -0500
> >>
> >> "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Sam, Danny, J., all
> >> >
> >> >     I am working with the radeon and radeonhd drivers seeing if I can
> >> > get them to work with compiz 0.8.2.1 on my radeon x1200 laptop. My
> >> > xorg .conf is:
> >> >
> >> > Section "Device"
> >> >   BoardName    "RV350 NP"
> >> > #  Driver       "radeon"
> >> >   Driver       "radeonhd"
> >> >   Identifier   "Device[0]"
> >> >   VendorName   "ATI"
> >> > EndSection
> >> >
> >> >     I have tried both the radeon and radeon hd driver with same
> >> > results. Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is
> >> > going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and
> >> > redrawing each window, but then it never actually  starts. The windows
> >> > are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide in put to
> >> > them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace
> >> > causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows
> >> > then redrawn with kde decor.
> >> >
> >> >     Does anybody have and idea what's happening and how to fix it?
> >> > Thanks.
> >>
> >> Assuming you have the Mesa 3D drivers installed and working properly,
> >> then yes, compiz will work just fine.
> >>
> >> What distribution is this, and how are you trying to start compiz?
> >> What's the output of 'glxinfo'?
> >>
> >> Adam
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> >        I mesa is loaded, but I'm not sure what you mean by Mesa 3D. I
> > just know it as Mesa. Here is what is loaded:
> >
> > (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
> > (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
> >
> >        Do I need something else?
>
> I had a problem similar to this on Gentoo.  I'd kick off compiz and no
> borders, no errors, nothing.  Then I realized everything was working
> fine, compiz just wasn't configured at all.  Figured it was just
> stupid defaults on Gentoo, perhaps its more global that that.  Try
> this - launch compiz however you do form a terminal, then run ccsm.
> Start enabling stuff.  under window management make sure you get 'move
> window' and 'resize window' and application switcher at the very
> least.  for image loading, select everything.  Under effects select
> 'window decorations'.  Under utility select 'dbus', 'glib' &
> 'inotify'.  Try that, it should get you basic functionality.  Beyond
> that, its all however much bling you want.  Most of the shiny comes
> from 'wobbly windows', '3d windows' and 'animations' tho.
>
> How that helps.
>
> Wil

Wil,

	You are a genious! I never would have believed it. The current install is on 
archlinux. Most of my other installs are opensuse (where a fglrx driver is 
available). All I did was rsync my .config/compiz/compizconfig from an 
opensuse box over to my archlinux box, started compiz again and Presto! All 
was well in the world -- well almost ;-)

	Man this was strange?? Is the default config distro specific or is it a 
compiz generic issues that could be tweaked here?

	Only other strange issues for compiz with the radeonhd driver is that when I 
run glxgears, the background for the gears is completely transparent (100% 
gone). Additionally, shift switcher does not erase the original windows 
before drawing the shift switch windows (the gradient draws correctly though) 
See:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/shiftswitch.jpg

	After closing all apps and restarting them shiftswitch seems ok??

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/shiftswitch.jpg

	Only real downside so far with the radeonhd driver is the frame-rates in 
glxgears is about 1/5 what it was with the fglrx driver (Current: 188 FPS, 
w/fglrx: 1000 FPS). But the desktop effects work smoothly, etc.. The only 
noticeable lag is with rotate cube and on window resize, but it isn't that 
bad either.

	Thanks again!

cc: radeonhd at opensuse.org

	Guys see also, the glxinfo output and Xorg.0.log:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/glxinfo-radeonhd

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/radeonhd/Xorg.0.log

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