compiz does not start up "Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity"

[Matt Wheeler]

Binary package hint: compiz

compiz was working fine yesterday, won't start up at all today, just falls back to metacity

% compiz --replace ~
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (3360x1050) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,move,resize,place,decoration,animation,ccp,mousepoll,extrawm,svg,session,neg,video,winrules,gnomecompat,colorfilter,imgjpeg,png,obs,dbus,workarounds,text,glib,regex,resizeinfo,wobbly,fade,cube,showdesktop,rotate,3d,expo,showmouse,scale,ezoom,scalefilter,scaleaddon,switcher]
Date: Sun Oct 4 14:53:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: compiz 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] [1002:71c7] (rev 9e)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=3e2c57c1-b72c-4a0d-abe6-f3e47eb19d08 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu7
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 11/11/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: RS300-SB200
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd11/11/2003:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnRS300-SB200:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.31-11-generic

[Crashbit (crashbit-gmail)]

I have the same problem when starting the X, the window borders are not shown. I have to launch compiz - replace manually to function more or less well. But then I do not load nautilus, only if I throw loads from terminal

[Matt Wheeler (funkyhat)]

This bug appears to only appear when xpra is installed.

Can anyone confirm that? Perhaps it needs to be moved?

[Matt Wheeler (funkyhat)]

2009/10/4 Crashbit <email address hidden>:
> I have the same problem when starting the X, the window borders are not
> shown. I have to launch compiz - replace manually to function more or
> less well. But then I do not load nautilus, only if I throw loads from
> terminal

Pretty sure this is not the same bug Crashbit. metacity is started up in place of compiz with no problems.

--
Matt Wheeler
<email address hidden>

[László Torma (tormalaszlo)]

Could it be the same bug as these?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/442197
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441577

The bugs above occur with Intel video but the symptoms seem to be the same...

[Crashbit (crashbit-gmail)]

Yes it's a different bug.

[Peterson Silva (petersonsilva)]

I don't know if it makes any sense, but this happened to me today after upgrading grub2...

[Hatman (richard-hatton)]

I think I have this bug on 9.10 after both an upgrade and a fresh install on my system which uses an ATI 9600XT graphics card.

I had no problems using Compiz on 9.04. Interestingly, when I boot my system from the 9.10 CD, Visual Effects do not work, however when I boot from an earlier 9.10 alpha CD they work fine - so I guess this can be considered a regression?

$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

I can confirm that xpra is not installed on my system

Let me know if I can provide any more information