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nocive
April 9th, 2008, 12:00 PM
Hi all!

I'm experiencing a weird behaviour with compiz. When I try to switch to another vt my whole X session crashes, causing a gdm restart. I've narrowed it down and realized that this only happens if both compiz and conky are running, if one of the 2 is disabled, this doesn't happen, so I'm guessing this is a compiz issue...

Searched the compiz forums and can't seem to find anyone reporting a similar behaviour, am I doing something wrong?
Also tried different compiz startup options and nvidia-drivers versions with no success. I can't get any relevant info from the log files, except that Xorg died for no reason.
Apart from this particular problem and some occasional gtk-window-decorator crashes, compiz is running smoothly.
And yes, I really need conky, not a big fan of mac and vista like widgets :)

GPU nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS
Running gentoo tuxonice-2.6.24-r3, compiz 0.6.2-r1, compiz-fusion 0.6.0, nvidia-drivers 169-12, xorg-x11 7.2, xorg-server 1.3 and xfce, all from gentoo portage.

compiz startup args
--replace --sm-disable --loose-binding --indirect-rendering ccp
but, like I said, same behaviour with only --replace ccp

xorg.conf extract
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "0"

# Composite nVidia accel variables
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true" # <= nvidia-drivers-96.39
Option "BackingStore" "true"

Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" # <= nvidia-drivers-96.39
Option "DamageEvents" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false"
#Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" # unknown option

Option "TripleBuffer" "true" # use with sync2vblank
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
EndSection


conkyrc extract
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager


As anyone experienced a similar problem?
Please let me know if more info is needed.
Any help appreciated :)


Best regards

nocive
April 11th, 2008, 11:13 PM
Hummm... thanks for the replies! :p

Been doing some further testing and I guess my previous post isn't interely accurate. Downgraded to nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 and the reported issue is gone. I am, however, not sure if this is or is not a nvidia drivers problem.
More people have reported problems with compiz and the 169 series... it's a shame, cause they solve some hibernate issues for me, but vt switch is far more important!


Cheers,
José Pedro