>
> I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion,
> which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow > the instructions
> outlined here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz>
> And everything was going smoothly up until the compiz --replace command, which outputs:
>
> jason@debian:~$ compiz --replace
> compiz (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed
> compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
> compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
>
> Launching fallback window manager
>
> Which is obviously metacity. I googled a bit but almost all forum posts I found regarded the Fedora > distribution. Here's one that didn't:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116895>
> However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to uninstall the NVIDIA driver (which I've installed > with the NVIDIA installer),
> since that guy says to do so in the sentence:
>
> "I uninstall NVIDIA driver have installed Nvidia way - not Debian way."
>
> So I'm still stuck. I ran the "compiz check" script hosted on "Forlon's blog" (
http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check)
> and here's the output:
>
> jason@debian:~$ ./compiz-check
>
> Gathering information about your system...
>
> Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid)
> Desktop environment: GNOME
> Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
> Driver in use: nvidia
> Rendering method: Nvidia
>
> Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...
>
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL]
> Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL]
>
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
> Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
> Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]
>
> At least one check had to be skipped:
> Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size
>
> jason@debian:~$
>
> This is an obvious problem, because after reading a little about compiz-fusion I understood that it's practically based on the
> openGL extension "texture_from_pixmap" which I, for some reason, lack.
>
> Before going ahead and doing something that might eliminate my ability to launch an X session, I thought I might resort to this list
> for the most up-to-date information as to what I should do. I am attaching my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log as well as the full output of
> "glxinfo" so as to not clutter this message any further with their data. In xorg.conf you will notice that I have added dummy
> "Identifier" strings to all the xorg.conf sections that the wiki.debian article I linked to suggests that I add. This was done because my
> xorg.conf would not be parsed otherwise and I would be stuck with a terminal interface. The "startx" command complained about xorg.conf sections lacking
> "Identifier" strings.
>
> Thank you very much for your time and interest,
> Jason
>