Texture_from_pixmap not working with radeon driver

[Jordan]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-radeon

What I expected to happen:

Compiz to work automatically with the radeon driver like it does in fedora 9

What happened instead:

Compiz does not start at all complaining that texture_from_pixmap is missing

DRI is working but when I try to start compiz with compiz --replace I get

"Checking for Xgl: not present.
Found laptop using ati driver.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity "

I assume that means that radeon is blacklisted but compiz works fine with the same laptop running fedora 9 ( with the radeon driver ). when I try to start compiz with "compiz.real --replace" I get:

"compiz.real (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0"

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-radeon:
  Installed: 1:6.9.0-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:6.9.0-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:6.9.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

lspci -nn | grep VGA :
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600] [1002:71c5]

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Please attach the output from "LIBGL_DEBUG=yes glxinfo
". Although probably unrelated, I would also suggest using Option "AccelMethod" "EXA".

[Jordan (jordanu)]

Texture from pixmap still does not work with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" and the output from "LIBGL_DEBUG=yes" is the same with and without it.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

You should not run compiz.real directly. To bypass the radeon-on-laptop check, run:
 SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz --replace
You can also try:
 SKIP_CHECKS=yes LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace

[Jordan (jordanu)]

With SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz starts and runs great, so I guess this wasn't a problem with texture_from_pixmap but rather because of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/197135

Thank you Tormod Volden.