Bug#433167: compiz: fullscreen opengl games end up showing only a black screen

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 09:27 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> reassign 433167 libgl1-mesa-dri
> forcemerge 411141 433167
> thank you
> 
> 
> Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Package: compiz
> > Version: 0.2.2-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > when compiz is running, fullscreen opengl games become unplayable.
> > instead of the game rendering, there is just a completely black screen.
> > when compiz is not running, the game works just fine.
> >
> > to test this out, start up openarena and set it on windowed mode (you
> > can verify that both fullscreen and windowed mode work fine at this 
> > point without compiz running).  then start up compiz.  the game works 
> > fine here in windowed mode.  now go to the menu and switch to 
> > fullscreen.  the screen will go all black, and the game and compiz will 
> > both need to be killed to get the system working again.
> >   
> 
> That's probably expected. See #411141.

Not really, screensavers and fullscreen apps generally work fine for me
without correct direct rendering to redirected windows. Michael, could
you try a newer version of compiz?


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