broken after 2007/07/23 update, resize and no window borders

[arthur_kalm]

So I came in this morning, faithfully upgraded Compiz Fusion and started it up. It dropped me back to kwin and I had the error message in the attached .out file. I took a look and it seemed to crash when trying to start up the resize info plugin. OK, no big deal, I just disabled it. I tried Compiz Fusion again, this time it starts but with no window borders and all my Konsole windows are blank white. I press Alt + F2 and run "emerald --replace" to get the window decorator back. Nothing happens. I close the Konsole windows and try to run Konsole again, but to no avail as the new instance still has a white background. So for now I'm stuck with Kwin (rather hard to work like this...). Any help would be much appreciated. I'm using an nVidia 6600 GT with the 9631 nVidia drivers on Kubuntu 7.04 with Treviño's repository. Here is my Compiz start script:

[code:64b21]
#!/bin/bash

killall compiz.real
sleep 2


__GL_YIELD=NOTHING compiz --indirect-rendering --loose-binding --replace -c emerald &

killall adept_notifier
sleep 2
adept_notifier &

killall klipper
sleep 2
klipper &

sleep 5
emerald --replace &
[/code:64b21]

[adamk]

FYI, I don't know if loose bindings would cause this, but you really shouldn't have it enabled. If you run with loose bindings, there's no guarantee that textures will actually be mapped correctly to windows (or mapped at all).

I suggest trying without it and seeing if it makes a difference.

Adam

[jsully]

I noticed that this mornings upgrade had far fewer packages listed than normal, specifically it didn't include: libcompizconfig, libdecoration0, emerald, and libemeraldengine0, though there may be more. Perhaps it's related? I chose not to upgrade when I saw that there were only four available packages.

[arthur_kalm]

FYI, I don't know if loose bindings would cause this, but you really shouldn't have it enabled. If you run with loose bindings, there's no guarantee that textures will actually be mapped correctly to windows (or mapped at all).

I suggest trying without it and seeing if it makes a difference.

Adam

I have to use loose bindings because otherwise I get black windows within an hour or less. Has this been fixed so I don't need to use loose bindings? jsully, I don't think that could be the reason. All it meant was that compiz-fusion had some additional changes and the other packages didn't.

Edit: I've tried removing loose bindings but I get the same result (no decorator, blank Konsole).

[fuzz500]

Sorry to say this but.... ME TOO. Until, this recent update, compiz worked competently. Now when I boot I compiz won't load and metacity window borders are absent. I suspect that the screen driver has fallen back to xorg from fglrx as well, as the screen response is very slow now.

I went about troubleshooting slightly differently though, I compared the system logs of the troublesome machine to a working machine of similar configuration, which clearly revealed the following difference:

(EE) fglrx(0): GART is not initialized, disabling DRI
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

have been googling "GART is not initialized, disabling DRI" which reveals this as a common error message, but have not solved the problem yet. From previous experience, I suspect that I may have to upgrade or downgrade my graphics driver (fglrx) to solve the problem. Hope that helps and will be checking back for ideas.

F500.

ps. I think the auto updating of ubuntu is a pet peeve of mine. Every couple of days there are updates, amounting to several megs per week, with no way of selectively choosing which to apply and which to reject. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way of marking an update to ignore it?

[jsully]

You can right click on a package (or multiple packages) in Synaptic and select "lock version", which will prevent Synaptic from upgrading to newer versions. Also, with the update manager you'll find a little checkbox next to the packages that have available updates, so you can deselect which ones you don't want to apply.

[fuzz500]

thx for the commentary jsully, but in the update manager, if you deselect a package, does it not just sit there next time you reboot, and so on. I thought it just stays in the list next time you boot and that the only way to clear the list was to apply the update. No?

[arthur_kalm]

I'm still having the same problem even after the 2007/07/26 update. Should I downgrade? Should I compile from source? Is anyone else still experiencing this problem?

[arthur_kalm]

OK so I've tried a purge and reinstall and still no dice. So this can't be anything to do with my customization. This is really annoying, I hate using kwin... I can't run getgit from work (blocked by the firewall) so I'll have to clone and bring it with me, but any suggestions?

The error message I keep getting is:

[code:cef2b]/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Info: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a00008 to texture[/code:cef2b]

[arthur_kalm]

OK I found the solution. You need to add this to your Device section in xorg.conf.

[code:af2f6]Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"[/code:af2f6]

[fuzz500]

the Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" didn't work for me .... I'm focusing on the fact that DRI did not load and trying to debug that... I do know that you can't run Compiz without DRI. Still looking for ideas...
F500

[Kickboy]

I've been experiencing the same issues. Are you guys just downgrading to solve the problem?

I tried the "AddARGBGLXVisuals" Option as well, and it didn't seem to change anything.