Bug 22072

Summary: Compiz no longer loads with 2.7.99.1.
Product: xorg Reporter: Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulido <juanchito2006>
Component: Driver/intelAssignee: Eric Anholt <eric>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: shuang.he
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)Keywords: regression
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulido 2009-06-03 14:54:28 UTC 
Running Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala"

After updating the Intel driver to version 2.7.99.1, I restarted my system, and after login, Compiz wasn't activated. When I try to activate compiz via fusion-icon, the screen goes blank and I have to kill compiz in order to make my system usable.

If I run compiz --replace in a console, I get the following output:

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: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

Another issue after updating the driver is that playing video closes my X session.
Comment 1 Gordon Jin 2009-06-03 15:15:28 UTC 
"playing video closes my X session" issue even happens without compiz, right? It will be good to track that as a separate bug, so let's focus on compiz issue here.

What's the kernel version?
Please attach Xorg.0.log according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html.

Is there an older version driver getting your compiz working?
Comment 2 Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulido 2009-06-03 15:35:16 UTC 
Created attachment 26410 [details]
Xorg log attached as requested.

Kernel version: 2.6.30-7-server

Compiz worked as of driver version 2.7.1
Comment 3 Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulido 2009-06-03 15:45:41 UTC 
Other system information:

Chipset: Intel G35
System architecture: i686
X server version: 1.6.1.901
Mesa version: 7.4.1
Motherboard model: Intel DG35EC
Display connector: VGA
Comment 4 Julien Cristau 2009-06-04 00:57:50 UTC 
Looks like NOTABUG to me:
(EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to detect GEM.  Kernel 2.6.28 required.

Cheers,
Julien
Comment 5 Eric Anholt 2009-07-01 14:12:04 UTC 
Your distribution kernel appears to have GEM disabled for some reason.  If it's PAE, there are fixes upstream to enable GEM on PAE now.  But 2.7.99.* does not provide 3D support without GEM.
Comment 6 Juan Sebastián Marulanda Pulido 2011-01-25 08:04:38 UTC 
Fixed in newer versions of the Intel driver and the Linux kernel.

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