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  1. Bug #173663
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 173663

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Miguel Martinez (el-quark) wrote : Re: compiz will not launch with fglrx driver - falls back to metacity

There's some interesting stuff in the compiz script, apart from the check pointed out by Yann Papouin. If I count the number of times that "texture from pixmap" appears on glxinfo while using radeon (the FOSS driver), I get:

$ glxinfo | grep texture_from_pixmap
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
$ glxinfo | grep texture_from_pixmap -c
2

I've also grepped Edward Clark's full glxinfo report and "texture_from_pixmap" also appears just two times, even though he is using fglrx and I am using radeon. Please note that my card is a Mobility Radeon 9600. But of course compiz loads with radeon[1]. I see the hardy version is still 7.11 (I haven't tried it yet), but as reverting xorg-core won't happen (I'm 99% sure of that), we'll have to wait for a newer fglrx release. Does any of you know if 8.01 works with xserver 1.4?

[1] After dist-upgrading to hardy, compiz refused to start, but that's because the script was pointing to /usr/local/ instead of /usr/ for both compiz.real binary and plugin libraries.