intel 2.0 drivers: composite and xv/opengl

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 06:07 +0200, Giovanni Masucci wrote:
> with intel drivers, on a 945GM card, with a composite manager running (compiz, 
> kompmgr etc.) I can't see video with xv. All I have is a black window. As 
> soon as I kill the composite manager I can see the picture! Is this expected 
> to be solved with new releases of drivers?

This is probably due to limitations of XAA, it should work with EXA.

> Also I have a problem with opengl. If I launch an opengl app (say, glxgears) 
> with compiz (or others) running, this apps is always visible, even if I move 
> a window on the top of it! This is very annoying...again, as soon as I kill 
> the composite manager it behaves like expected.

This is a fundamental issue that'll take some time to fix, see
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DirectRenderingToRedirectedWindows for a
sketch of the road ahead.


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