Hello,
It seems to work in KDE with tranlucencies. Thank you! If I see more bugs I
will tell you, don't worry :-D
So a question, if I can abuse a little bit. I have done so many things to
xorg.conf that I would like to control them. Please tell me if the following
is correct: if I install Debian from scratch on a new computer, with Intel
graphic card, and I want to use the transparencies, I only have to do the
following things to /etc/X11/xorg.conf , isn't it?:
1) Add the following:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection
2) Inside Section "Device" that refers to the graphic card, I add the line
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
3) Shall I add the line?
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
4) Shall I add the line?
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
5) Do I have to do anything else with xorg.conf?
But I had today two problems, I do not know if they are related with
composition, because I also had them when working without composition:
The first one is that, when I select shutdown or reboot, sometimes the
screen goes black and nothing happens, I have to turn the computer off with
the "power" button.
Other times, for an unknown reason, the display freezes spectacularly. No
answer to keyboard, mouse, or Ctrl + Alt + F1. Again, I have to turn the
computer off with the "power" button.
Do you know about this bugs? Are they related to composition? Can I report
them? (I hesitate because I do not know how to reproduce them, they come by
surprise).
Compiz does not work yet. With all the options above enabled in xorg.conf,
when I try to start it I read
$ compiz --replace
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is not available with direct rendering.
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is available with indirect rendering.
/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator: Could not acquire decoration manager
selection on screen 0 display ":0.0
and it switches to metacity (although I am using KDE).
A final question, only if you know it; a question between colleagues :-) ,
because it is out of the scope of this bug: do you think that I can get the
composition effects, with the free driver of ati, with this solution? (that
is for the other computer). I have to use the free driver, because the card
is a Radeon 9200 SE and it is not supported by fglrx. People of fglrx told
me that the free driver should include the composition for this card, but
composition does not work. If you do not know do not worry, I will submit a
bug against ati.
Thank you again for your work.
David
