intel 2.0 drivers: composite and xv/opengl

[Giovanni Masucci]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 08:02:54 you wrote:
> 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.
Indeed! The problem is that EXA on my system is way too slower than XAA when 
compiz is running...
> > 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.
I will, thank you :)