kwin4 argb missing problem

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Jul 6 10:03:37 PDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:44 -0300, Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> Em Monday 06 July 2009, Michel Dänzer escreveu:
> > 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.
> 
> 	I use xorg-server-1.5.3-r6.

Can you also post your Xorg.0.log?


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