Ubuntu
compiz package

No Desktop Effects with Hardy 8.04

Bug #223490 reported by Robert Hilbrich on 2008-04-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #201330: [regression] need to whitelist multiple ATI cards, or remove blacklisting. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have an IBM T40p with an ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility Graphics. After i upgraded to Hardy, my desktop effects stopped working.

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# compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Found laptop using radeon driver.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
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When I start manually and set the env-variable "SKIP_CHECKS=yes" it is working from command line, but not within the gnome-visual-appearance program.

I did an upgrade and not a fresh & new install from 7.10 -> 8.04.

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Robert Hilbrich (rhilbrich) wrote on 2008-04-28:

my Xorg.conf Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Robert Hilbrich (rhilbrich) wrote on 2008-04-28:

Okay, I did some debugging and my T40p failed the following Test in /usr/bin/compiz:

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       #don't run on laptops using ati driver
        if laptop-detect; then
                 for DRV in ati radeon; do
                         if egrep -q "Loading ${XORG_DRIVER_PATH}${DRV}_drv\.so" $LOG &&
                            ! egrep -q "Unloading ${XORG_DRIVER_PATH}${DRV}_drv\.so" $LOG;
                         then
                                 verbose "Found laptop using ${DRV} driver. \n"
                                 return 1
                         fi
                 done
         fi
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