composite on G5

[Jorge Campos]

Well, I've tried it on KDE and 'xcompmgr -c' still turns all windows gray.
Also, I couldn't quite figure out how to tell 'make' to compile the
XServer in 32-bit mode.

I noticed that you are able to run xcompmgr on your Apple laptop... I'm
assuming its a G4 (hence, 32-bits=no problems).  The XServer runs fine
without starting up xcompmgr... so I'm wondering if xcompmgr is causing
the problem b/c I believe xcompmgr.c was last modified in October whereas
the composite code for the  XServer has been updated as recently as
yesterday.

-Jorge


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 00:33 -0800, Jorge Campos wrote:
> >
> > My setup: dual G5, ATI Radeon 9600, Gentoo Linux,
> >           Enlightenment E16.7.1 Window Manager
> >
> > I have installed the latest x.org from CVS as of 1/21/2005, and I have
> > configured the xorg.conf file as I'm supposed to, and I've also installed
> > xcompmgr and transset from CVS.  But when I do 'xcompmgr -c' all my
> > windows turn gray, and the only way I can tell a window's border is
> > through its drop shadow (altho I must admit, the drop shadows look pretty
> > nice!).
> >
> > I was wondering if I'm having this problem because of the radeon driver
> > (there is no binary driver from ATI for PPC64), or if its because I have
> > everything compiled in 64-bit mode (and perhaps the composite bit-wise
> > operations are done at 32-bit mode?), or if the nifty composite feature
> > simply isn't supported for PPC64 yet.
>
> FWIW, it's working 'fine' (translucent windows are still mostly unusable
> due to shortcomings in XAA) for me on a TiBook IV with an M9. I'd
> suggest trying:
>
>       * A different window manager
>       * Depth 24 if you're running 16 or the other way around
>       * Compiling X in 32 bit if that's possible
>
> to narrow down what the problem is.
>
>
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