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compiz package

[Gutsy] compiz wrapper wrongly thinks I'm using vesa or vga driver

Bug #122604 reported by Jan Mynarik on 2007-06-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Michael Vogt	Ubuntu tribe-3

Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

Compiz wrapper wrongly thinks I'm using vesa or vga driver, although my driver is i810_drv.so. The result is that I can't use compiz at all and it automatically falls back to metacity.

Driver recognition logic in compiz wrapper sees loading of both vesa and vga drivers but these are unloaded afterwards. I have no xorg.conf. Will attach my Xorg.0.log.

If it's possible I suggest using xdriinfo.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty/compiz

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Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik) wrote on 2007-06-27:

Xorg.0.log Edit (70.6 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik) wrote on 2007-06-27:

Mentioned logic is in wrapper's fuction running_under_bad_driver(). This is new behavior starting with version 1:0.5.1+git20070626-0ubuntu1.

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2007-06-27

Changed in compiz:
importance:	Undecided → Critical
status:	New → Confirmed

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2007-06-28

Changed in compiz:
assignee:	nobody → mvo
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-07-03:

compiz (1:0.5.1+git20070703-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * new git snapshot
  * debian/compiz.wrapper:
    - pass "--indirect-rendering" to compiz if required
      (Fixes LP: #122562)
    - fix driver detection when driver are loaded and unloaded
      (Fixes LP: #122604)
    - add some extra-paranoia for the logfile detection

-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:37:25 +0200