compiz and xorg-server 1.6.0

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 23/02/09 09:38 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> 'Twas brillig, and Keith Packard at 23/02/09 03:38 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 19:15 -0800, Tony Bones wrote:
>>
>>> /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: Root visual is not a GL visual 
>>> /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 
>>> /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on
>>> display :0 
>> There's a minor visual fix on the server-1.6-branch; you might give that a try.
> 
> I tried that one but it didn't help.
> 
> In the end the "fix" I found was to revert:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.6-branch&id=444127f9f408d2f517fdfab0092bd67b29073373
> 
> Before this, compiz would start but give a white screen on the cube 
> face. More intelligent scripts would probably stop it starting in the 
> first place.

Sadly it seems the above was missed in the 1.6.0 release. Perhaps this 
commit can be looked at for 1.6.1?

Col

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