intel 2.0 drivers: composite and xv/opengl
Michel Dänzer
michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Jun 25 23:02:54 PDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 06:07 +0200, Giovanni Masucci wrote:
> with intel drivers, on a 945GM card, with a composite manager running (compiz,
> kompmgr etc.) I can't see video with xv. All I have is a black window. As
> soon as I kill the composite manager I can see the picture! Is this expected
> to be solved with new releases of drivers?
This is probably due to limitations of XAA, it should work with EXA.
> Also I have a problem with opengl. If I launch an opengl app (say, glxgears)
> with compiz (or others) running, this apps is always visible, even if I move
> a window on the top of it! This is very annoying...again, as soon as I kill
> the composite manager it behaves like expected.
This is a fundamental issue that'll take some time to fix, see
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DirectRenderingToRedirectedWindows for a
sketch of the road ahead.
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