kwin4 argb missing problem

[Alex Deucher]

2009/7/7 Lamarque Vieira Souza <lamarque at gmail.com>:
> Em Tuesday 07 July 2009, Michel Dänzer escreveu:
>> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:44 -0300, Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
>> > Em Monday 06 July 2009, Michel Dänzer escreveu:
>> > > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 15:37 -0300, Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
>> > > > Em Monday 06 July 2009, Michel Dänzer escreveu:
>> > > > > I think the problem is
>> > > > >
>> > > > >         Option "GlxVisuals" "all"
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Please try without that.
>> > > >
>> > > >         Still does not work. That option should make all glx visuals
>> > > > available, but I still only get 16 glx visuals when using the
>> > > > opensource driver, with fglrx I get 32.
>> > >
>> > > Please provide Xorg.0.log and glxinfo output from running without that
>> > > option.
>> >
>> >     Here they are.
>>
>> Not sure what's up - you don't have $XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS set in your
>> environment by any chance?
>>
>> If that's not it, try upgrading to xserver 1.6 and mesa 7.4 if possible.
>
>        Great, now it is working :-) Thank you for your help. I still only have 16
> glx visuals but the 32 depth one is there and the effects works now. And I did
> a mistake, the $XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS was set, I did a test last month I
> forgot to unset it in /etc/profile. Now I need to make DRI2 work to avoid the
> conflicts between DRI applications (Googleearth in my case) and the composite
> effects. For now I set kwin4 to use XRender instead of OpenGL, this way the
> effects does not conflicts with DRI applications, but even the kwin4
> developers say to avoid using kwin4's effects with XRender because the effects
> have not been well tested with XRender. Do you know what is the state of DRI2
> for the radeon driver? Is there any chance to have DRI2 and radeon working
> together this year?

DRI2 works on radeon, however you need some pretty bleeding edge bits:
- radeon drm with kms support (2.6.31) loaded with modeset=1
- latest ddx from git master
- updated libdrm and radeon libdrm from drm git master configured with
--enable-radeon-experimental-api
- mesa from git master

Alex