Re: compiz fails with Xgl not present error....
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 04:28:39PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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> Dear Debianists,
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> I installed my 8500GT nvidia card successfully on my amd64 sempron box running Debian Lenny:
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> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/etc/X11# glxinfo |grep rendering
> direct rendering: Yes
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> I followed the advice kindly provided by Hans Ullrich in a recent post and after modifying the xorg.conf file I installed compiz using apt-get install compiz and ran compiz --replace & instead of trying to use the session startup method.
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> The result was an "Xgl not present error". I looked around on google to see what this error means but I didn't get much clue.
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> Is there a debian Xgl package I need to install for example?
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> Your comments are appreciated.
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> I included a copy of my xorg.conf after this output.
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> Regards
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> Michael Fothergill
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> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/etc/X11# compiz --replace &
> [1] 4093
> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/etc/X11# Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Detected PCI ID for VGA:
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
> Checking for non power of two support: present.
> Checking for Composite extension: present.
> Comparing resolution (1024x768) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
> Checking for nVidia: present.
It detected an nvidia. That's all you need. Xgl is a hack running
essentially an X server on top of openGL on another X server. I think
ATI users still have to use that, but nvidia users do not. Xgl is not
an ellegant solution at all, so it not being present is a good thing.
> No nvidia-settings program available to determine VideoRam.Checking for FBConfig: present.
Perhaps you should install the nvidia-settings package then.
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Starting gtk-window-decorator
> /usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: SmcOpenConnection failed: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
xauth problem?
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Len Sorensen
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