ATI +Gnome + CompizFusion = X crash

[Felipe Lotas Asta]

                                                                                                                                            PABLO.




> Subject: Re: ATI +Gnome + CompizFusion = X crash
> From: michel at daenzer.net
> To: slurpamela at hotmail.com
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:23:53 +0200
> CC: xorg at freedesktop.org
> 
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 12:32 +0000, Felipe Lotas Asta wrote:
> >         
> >         Gnome 2.26.1
> >         xorg-server 1.6.1-1
> >         xorg-server-utils 7.4-6
> >         compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-1
> >         compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-1
> >         ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
> >         xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2
> 
> Which version of Mesa?
> 
> 
> >         The problem is that Compiz is very unstable. Some weeks ago it was
> >         working smoothly. Then came some Xorg, xf86-video-ati and Compiz updates
> >         all of a sudden and compiz started to crash very frequently, logging me
> >         out to GDM. Then came some more updates and thing has become better but
> >         still is crashing. Facts:
> >         
> >         1. Starting Gnome session with Compiz-fusion but without Fusion-icon
> >         works for a while. Then, suddenly, X crashes and I get back to GDM.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >         3. No error messages on Xorg.log.
> 
> Are you sure you looked at the log file from the crashed X server? When
> another server starts afterwards, it moves the existing log file to
> Xorg.0.log.old.
> 
> If there's really nothing about the crash in the log file, you can also
> check the gdm log file or the dmesg output.
> 
> 
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mesa 7.4.2-1
libgl 7.4.2-1

I've been running Compiz these two latest days to look for logs when it crashes, but surprisingly it is not crashing... besides I don't have too much time to spend with the computer this week... As soon as it crashes I'll write again with the logs.

Thanks to all.

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