Comment 2 for bug 245888

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hey, if you start compiz in a terminal, you may see "failed to create drawable"

I can see this message too and the screen is black.

> messages. If this is the case, you are experiencing the same issue I am, which
> I described in "CreateDrawable failing with old DRI" on the xorg mailing list.
> I have been unable to isolate the underlying cause of this and have yet to hear
> back from Kristian or the list. Superficially, it looked like mesa commit
> 23635510e3333ea8056311afa741c5e6d7c9ec15 might fix the issue, but no such luck.
Yes, The commit does not work for me.