<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> > Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:33:12 -0400 > Subject: Re: ATI +Gnome + CompizFusion = X crash > From: alexdeucher@gmail.com > To: slurpamela@hotmail.com > CC: xorg@freedesktop.org > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Felipe Lotas Asta > <slurpamela@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I've been looking for some weeks for a solution for this, and have > > asked > > in two forums but got no solution. > > > > I have: > > ArchLinux > > Gnome 2.26.1 > > xorg-server 1.6.1-1 > > xorg-server-utils 7.4-6 > > compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-1 > > compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-1 > > ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 > > xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2 > > > > The problem is that Compiz is very unstable. Some weeks ago it was > > working smoothly. Then came some Xorg, xf86-video-ati and Compiz > > updates > > all of a sudden and compiz started to crash very frequently, logging > > me > > out to GDM. Then came some more updates and thing has become better > > but > > still is crashing. Facts: > > > > 1. Starting Gnome session with Compiz-fusion but without Fusion-icon > > works for a while. Then, suddenly, X crashes and I get back to GDM. > > 2. If I start Gnome with Metacity everything works nice, but as soon > > as > > I run compiz-fusion with fusion-icon it logs me out. > > 3. No error messages on Xorg.log. > > 4. I tried to run Fusion-icon from terminal redirecting the output > > to a > > file to see if there is some error message but got no luck... no > > message > > at all. > > 5. I don't know where to look at for the error, neither know how to > > know > > if it's a bug and, in that case, if that's related to gnome, compiz, > > xorg, xf86-video-ati or what... But in the compiz-fusion forum I was > > told that probably is a Xorg bug. > > 6. If I remove the "EXA" acceleration method or change it for "XAA" > > then > > X doesn't crash but i cannot play videos and performance is worse. > > > > Any information needed just ask, please. Thanks for everything... > > Do you know what versions of the packages you were using previously? > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg No, sorry. I got this problem and after trying to solve it I got sick and reinstalled the system thinking that that would work, so I lost all the information about updates... <hr />Ahora, GRATIS Hotmail en tu móvil <a href='http://serviciosmoviles.es.msn.com/hotmail.aspx' target='_new'>ĄDescúbrelo aquí!</a></body> </html>