Summary: | Activating kde4 desktop effects with OpenGL setting crashes X | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Robin Bankhead <gentoo> |
Component: | [OLD] KDE | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | x11 |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2008.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | xorg.conf |
Description
Robin Bankhead
2008-10-19 00:46:15 UTC
Created attachment 169012 [details]
xorg.conf
Adding x11 as they are smarter when it comes to drivers issues. Some additional findings: the crash does not occur if XRender is selected as the compositing type. With OpenGL selected, the crash occurs even with what I take to be the least "ambitious" sub-settings, i.e. OpenGL Mode: Fallback Keep thumbnails of hidden windows up-to-date: false Direct rendering: false Use VSync: false All plugins and Common Effects disabled Also, I can confirm that compiz can be run successfully under KDE4. Update: I was briefly able to make the OpenGL-effects work after updating to xf86-video-intel-2.6.1 by logging out, editing ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc to enable desktop effects, and logging back in. I started with almost no effects enabled, and enabled a few one-by-one (Place Windows, Fade, Explode, Desktop Cube, Cover Switcher); after enabling each one, the screen went black for a moment but was restored. However, after a reboot kwin and kickoff were either very slow in loading, or loaded but did not render. Plasmoids (comic strip, luna, folder view) all loaded correctly but tooltips did not appear. No right-click menus appeared. Yakuake, when I opened it, caused a split-second "blip" of white in the top-left corner of the screen (the pulldown is oriented to top-right), and the pulldown was not visible - however, the mouse cursor behaved as though it was open (changed to a text-cursor when hovered in the area where the pulldown should be visible). I VT-switched to console, waited ~30 seconds and switched back, whereupon kickoff was visible again. A bubble informed me that kwin had disabled compositing for performance reasons. X.Org X Server 1.5.2 Release Date: 10 October 2008 kde-4.1.2 Closing... If you can still reproduce with X.org Server 1.6.x/1.7.x and KDE 4.3.x, please reopen. The issue still remains but the goalposts have moved quite a bit since my last input, e.g. X wasn't working at all for a few months, but now KMS is working. So I'll not reopen until I've done a bit more investigating myself (for which I have very little time at present, sadly). |