> On Tuesday 15 February 2011 03:23:51 Tim Folger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just ran one of my weekly upgrades last night (I'm using sid with the > > 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem kernel). Now compositing no longer works with kde > > (4.4.5). When I click "resume compositing," I get a message saying > > "Compositing has been suspended by another application." glxinfo | grep > > render says direct rendering is working. But when I run glxgears, I only > > get text output, without the animated gears. > > > > My middle mouse button also stopped working after the upgrade, i.e., I > > can't use it to copy and paste; can't open new tabs in any browser. (The > > mouse works perfectly in my other two computers, both of which still have > > kde 3.5.10 installed.) I'm using the radeon driver. None of these > > problems existed before last night's full-upgrade, so the upgrade > > definitely broke a few things, and I don't know how to fix them. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions... > > > > Tim > > Look at the output of 'glxinfo | grep -i opengl'. Does it say something > like "OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4"? libgl1-mesa-dri switched over > to Gallium drivers for many radeon Cards. Maybe that causes your problem > with compositing.
You're right--it does say "Open renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880." is there anything I can do to get compositing working again? And would this also explain why the middle click on my mouse no longer works? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102151023.13451...@timfolger.net
