Debian Lenny, ATI X1200, How to settup Xgl?

[radiodee1]

I'm a debian lenny user. I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 and a 'ATI Radeon X1200 Series' graphics card. I installed the fglrx driver successfully, version 8.44.3 from lenny. I was interested in trying out compiz, so I installed compiz from the debian repositories. If I type:

LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=true compiz --replace ccp &

The screen flashes briefly and I see:
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

I read that the shame repositories were more advanced, so I downloaded compiz from there, and then if I typed 'compiz --replace' I see:
Fatal: Failed test: texture_from_pixmap support
Checks indicate that it's impossible to start compiz on your system.
Then I tried installing xgl. Xgl isn't available in debian, but I found a ubuntu version mentioned in a post. I downloaded it and installed it using 'dpkg -i' along with 'libglitz-glx1' and 'libglitz1' (using aptitude). Then I wrote a script to start Xgl. I cannot get it to work. X just hangs. My question is can anyone help me finish/troubleshoot my Xgl installation... or is it impossible to get compiz to work on my hardware? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. :)

PS. I've written files for gdm to start Xgl at login, but it doesn't work. I can supply all scripts if neccesary.

[adamk]

If you can paste the output of 'fglrxinfo' and 'Xorg -verison' we'll see what we can do for you :-)

Adam

[radiodee1]

Thanks for the reply.

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7170 Release

$ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.4.0
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20071212-2)
Current Operating System: Linux howdy 2.6.22-2-k7 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 01:02:37 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 22 December 2007 01:30:34AM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

[adamk]

Alright, unfortunately with that version of the X server, you have no choice but to go with Xgl with the fglrx drivers. And, unfortunately, I've not heard of anyone successfully running Xgl on top of the 8.40 or higher fglrx drivers. I don't know if this is possible, but could you downgrade your X server version?

Adam

[radiodee1]

Thanks but... I cannot downgrade my Xserver version. Do I have any other options?

[adamk]

Only to try and make Xgl work. If it's not working for you now, I suggest downgrading the fglrx driver to 8.37 as that one is known to work fine with Xgl on most systems.

Adam

[some-guy]

try installing fusion-icon and seeing if that can start it