kwin4 argb missing problem

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 13:07 -0300, Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote: 
> 
> 	I am trying to make kwin4's composite effects works with my Radeon X700 
> mobility with the opensource driver, not luck so far. The effects works with 
> fglrx, but when using the radeon driver kwin returns this message:
> 
> kwin(29040): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for depth 32 (no ARGB GLX 
> visual)!
> kwin(29040): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled
> 
> 	It really seems there is no argb with 32 depth when using the radeon driver 
> (see the glxinfo_radeon.txt file attached). When using fglrx there is an argb 
> with 32 depth (the last visual in fglrxinfo.txt). I am using Gentoo 
> (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop), kernel 2.6.29.3, xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-
> r1, mesa-7.3-r1, kwin-4.2.4 on a Ferrari 4005 notebook.

These days the GLX visuals are handled between xserver and the mesa
driver. What version of xserver are you using? There have been some
backwards incompatible changes in the GLX visual handling between these
components, so you may need to upgrade one to match the other.


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