Desktop effects + intel problem

[Bráulio Barros de Oliveira]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 20:58 -0400, Bráulio Barros de Oliveira wrote:
> >
> > I don't know why disabling "Direct rendering" option on kwin's desktop
> > effects config. dialog doesn't help.
>
> It works for me, though this is on a Radeon chipset.
>
> Note that if this is with a Mesa pre-7.1 snapshot on an i965 generation
> Intel chipset, there are a couple of bugs there affecting this.
>
>
> > Maybe the problem has something to do with the opengl interface, as
> > GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap appears on my glxinfo:
>
> The problem is that it only appears twice, whereas three times are
> required. ;) Seriously though, it's missing from the 'GLX extensions:'
> string, which is the only GLX extension string relevant for
> applications. Without something like DRI2, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> only appears there when LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 is set, although it may
> work regardless with an indirect rendering context.

Maybe the GL support kwin needs is something else, cause it set
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT to 1 unconditional.
Also setting it at login time doesn't help. I think the best thing is to
wait the xorg 7.4 and mesa 7.1 exciting stuff.

Thanks for your support,
bráulio


>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
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