Bug#473578: compiz uses indirect rendering

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Package: compiz
Version: 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1
Severity: normal

Hi.

After many unsuccessful installations of compiz on my machine, I
discovered that the call "compiz --replace" didn't work because compiz
thinks that my hardware doesn't have an extension that it seems to have:

rbrito@chagas:~$ compiz.real --replace
compiz.real (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
rbrito@chagas:~$

But if I see the extensions supported by glxinfo, then I *do* get
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap reported:

rbrito@chagas:~$ glxinfo | grep texture_from_pixmap
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
rbrito@chagas:~$ 

My system uses an Intel on-board 865G chipset with 32MB of RAM shared
with the main system memory. I'm using a Pentium D 805 here, if memory
serves me well.

I'm not sure right now, but I think that the compiz package in the
installation/live CD uses direct rendering (well, it is much faster than
what I get with Debian via the option --indirect-rendering, even when
used with the CD).

Please, any help is appreciated. Also, let me know if any further
information is necessary/desired.


Thanks for your efforts, Rogério Brito.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages compiz depends on:
ii  compiz-core 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gnom 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gtk  0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-plug 0.6.3~git20080115.0ea58487-1 OpenGL window and compositing mana

compiz recommends no packages.

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