Compiz fails after upgrading the Kernel
Ranjan Maitra
maitra at iastate.edu
Mon Sep 13 15:22:49 UTC 2010
I have not updated here on my desktop, but I have had graphics problems
here before on my ATI FireGL card. my solution was to get rid of (yum
erase) glx\*
Don't know if this works for you, but it could be worth a try.
Ranjan
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:46:06 -0500 fedora <fedora at ayni.com> wrote:
> Hi listers
>
> I upgraded myhost to the following version of fedora 13 this morning.
>
> [myuser at myhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux myhost.lan 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 5 17:16:27 UTC
> 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [myuser at myhost ~]$
>
> After the upgrade compiz failed to work in the upgraded system. When I
> try to start compiz, it says:
>
> [myuser at myhost ~]$ compiz --replace &
> [1] 3012
> [myuser at myhost ~]$ compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is
> missing
> compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
> compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
>
> [1]+ Exit 1 compiz --replace
> [myuser at myhost ~]$
>
>
> I thought that it was a failure in a library or in the xorg-server
> alltoghether and googled around with that in mind to find a solution. I,
> however, didn't find anything which helped. I also did not find any
> convincing error in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, except that according to
> this log
>
>
> [ 20.929] (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
>
> When I did, however,
> [myuser at myhost ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i direct
> direct rendering: Yes
> [myuser at myhost ~]$
>
> I then gave the old kernel (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64) a try and -
> unexpectedly - compiz workes fine with the new libraries when using the
> old kernel.
>
> This is how I start the two kernels:
> title upper Disk Fedora (2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=afe5a1d5-a316-4cfb-90e0-d7e44b582037 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=sg
> resume=UUID=767752a5-5c99-4076-82d0-8912ef12a0db
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64.img
> title upper disk Fedora (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=afe5a1d5-a316-4cfb-90e0-d7e44b582037 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=sg
> resume=UUID=767752a5-5c99-4076-82d0-8912ef12a0db
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64.img
>
> Note that I do not use the "nomodeset" flag.
>
> The graphics driver is radeon:
>
> [root at myhost ~]# lsmod |grep radeon
> radeon 711725 2
> ttm 54819 1 radeon
> drm_kms_helper 24738 1 radeon
> drm 176953 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
> i2c_algo_bit 5045 1 radeon
> i2c_core 25709 5
> i2c_piix4,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
> [root at myhost ~]#
>
> [root at myhost ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "radeon"
> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> Option "DRI" "1"
> EndSection
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> [root at myhost ~]#
>
> Has somebody had a similar problem? How did you solve the problem with
> the new kernel?
>
> suomi
>
>
>
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