ATI +Gnome + CompizFusion = X crash

[Felipe Lotas Asta]

> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:33:12 -0400
> Subject: Re: ATI +Gnome + CompizFusion = X crash
> From: alexdeucher at gmail.com
> To: slurpamela at hotmail.com
> CC: xorg at freedesktop.org
> 
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Felipe Lotas Asta
> <slurpamela at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there.
> >
> >         I've been looking for some weeks for a solution for this, and have
> > asked
> >         in two forums but got no solution.
> >
> >         I have:
> >         ArchLinux
> >         Gnome 2.26.1
> >         xorg-server 1.6.1-1
> >         xorg-server-utils 7.4-6
> >         compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-1
> >         compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-1
> >         ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
> >         xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2
> >
> >         The problem is that Compiz is very unstable. Some weeks ago it was
> >         working smoothly. Then came some Xorg, xf86-video-ati and Compiz
> > updates
> >         all of a sudden and compiz started to crash very frequently, logging
> > me
> >         out to GDM. Then came some more updates and thing has become better
> > but
> >         still is crashing. Facts:
> >
> >         1. Starting Gnome session with Compiz-fusion but without Fusion-icon
> >         works for a while. Then, suddenly, X crashes and I get back to GDM.
> >         2. If I start Gnome with Metacity everything works nice, but as soon
> > as
> >         I run compiz-fusion with fusion-icon it logs me out.
> >         3. No error messages on Xorg.log.
> >         4. I tried to run Fusion-icon from terminal redirecting the output
> > to a
> >         file to see if there is some error message but got no luck... no
> > message
> >         at all.
> >         5. I don't know where to look at for the error, neither know how to
> > know
> >         if it's a bug and, in that case, if that's related to gnome, compiz,
> >         xorg, xf86-video-ati or what... But in the compiz-fusion forum I was
> >         told that probably is a Xorg bug.
> >         6. If I remove the "EXA" acceleration method or change it for "XAA"
> > then
> >         X doesn't crash but i cannot play videos and performance is worse.
> >
> >         Any information needed just ask, please. Thanks for everything...
> 
> Do you know what versions of the packages you were using previously?
> 
> Alex
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No, sorry. I got this problem and after trying to solve it I got sick and reinstalled the system thinking that that would work, so I lost all the information about updates...

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