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Re: ATI problems



Hi,

I think, before some time I read, that ATI-cards only works with
VESA-Driver under compiz.
Sorry, but I cant say, where I read this.

Greatings and a nice day

klaus

Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 11:51 -0400 schrieb B. Alexander:
> Hi,
> 
> For the past several months, I have been unable to run Compiz on my
> desktop at work. At home, I run KDE 4.4.5 and use compiz 0.8.4 for
> compositing. On this box, I have a GeForce 8600GT video card and am
> using the closed nvidia driver.
> 
> At work, I have a similar configuration, but I have an ATI Radeon HD
> 2400 XT card. I have tried the ATI driver, Radeon and am currently
> running the closed fglrx.
> 
> This configuration used to work under fglrx, until ATI painted me into
> a corner with a driver upgrade. Now when I start compiz, the borders
> and all the compositing features work, only I am unable to see because
> all of the surfaces (the panel, the contents of the terminal windows,
> etc) are solid white. Sometimes the browser will come up normally, but
> it eventually goes white as well.
> 
> I've played around with fixing it several times, but have contented
> myself with KDE compositing, though I prefer compiz.
> 
> Anyone know of a fix for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> --b



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