White screen problem with Compiz - Using Debian testing with an intel 945GM card
 

This is my first time posting a linux issue into a forums. In general I was able to sort thing myself out or find enough info on the net but I got stuck with this one.

I am unable to get compiz to work on my Dell E1405 laptop.

I am using a Debian testing distribution. I have started with a brand new xorg.conf generated by the command:

# dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

It's almost an empty xorg.conf as mostly everything is loaded/detected when X starts. I will post the log and conf on following posts but I assure you that everything in the log or conf seems fine. I do have direct rendering working:

$ glxinfo | grep direct
DISPATCH ERROR! _glapi_add_dispatch failed to add glAreTexturesResident!
DISPATCH ERROR! _glapi_add_dispatch failed to add glGenTextures!
DISPATCH ERROR! _glapi_add_dispatch failed to add glIsTexture!
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x67
direct rendering: Yes

But when I run compiz I get to the white screen problem. Alt tab works and the desktop rotates but I cannot see anything. Everything is blank.

I will really appreciate any help you can provide me to get this working.

$ uname -a
Linux mescamovil 2.6.29 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 17:40:08 ART 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Using debian testing and upgraded almost every day.

Please feel free to request for any other information.

Thanks,
a.=

This is my xorg.conf

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
# Width fit
#Virtual 2800 900
# Height fit
Virtual 1440 1668
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Some info from the log (I cannot enter everything here)

No errors found in the log.

$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep \(==\)
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Apr 10 11:12:18 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
(==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen".
(==) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
(==) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(==) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(==) FontPath set to:
(==) RgbPath set to "/etc/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(==) AIGLX enabled
(==) Matched intel for the autoconfigured driver
(==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
(==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
(==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration
(==) intel(0): Enabling EXA render acceleration
(==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe
(==) intel(0): Will not try to enable page flipping
(==) intel(0): Triple buffering disabled
(==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
(==) intel(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
(==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB
(==) intel(0): Write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x10000000)
(==) intel(0): Backing store disabled
(==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
(==) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "Auto"
(==) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50

$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep \(II\) (except the modes)

(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Loader magic: 0x81e3800
(II) Module ABI versions:
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,27a0 card 1028,01d8 rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,27a2 card 1028,01d8 rev 03 class 03,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:1: chip 8086,27a6 card 1028,01d8 rev 03 class 03,80,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1b:0: chip 8086,27d8 card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 04,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1c:0: chip 8086,27d0 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,04,00 hdr 81
(II) PCI: 00:1c:1: chip 8086,27d2 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,04,00 hdr 81
(II) PCI: 00:1c:3: chip 8086,27d6 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,04,00 hdr 81
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,27c8 card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,27c9 card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,27ca card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:3: chip 8086,27cb card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:7: chip 8086,27cc card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,2448 card 0000,0000 rev e1 class 06,04,01 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,27b9 card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,27c4 card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,27da card 1028,01d8 rev 01 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:00:0: chip 14e4,170c card 1028,01d8 rev 02 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:01:0: chip 1180,0832 card 1028,01d8 rev 00 class 0c,00,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 02:01:1: chip 1180,0822 card 1028,01d8 rev 19 class 08,05,01 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 02:01:2: chip 1180,0592 card 1028,01d8 rev 0a class 08,80,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 02:01:3: chip 1180,0852 card 1028,01d8 rev 05 class 08,80,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 0c:00:0: chip 8086,4222 card 8086,1020 rev 02 class 02,80,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Intel Bridge workaround enabled
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,13), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 11: bridge is at (0:28:0), (0,11,11), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 12: bridge is at (0:28:1), (0,12,12), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 12 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 13: bridge is at (0:28:3), (0,13,14), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 13 I/O range:
(II) Bus 13 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) Bus 13 prefetchable memory range:
(II) Subtractive PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
(II) All system resource ranges:
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) Matched intel from file name intel.ids in autoconfig
(II) LoadModule: "intel"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so
(II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
(II) resource ranges after probing:
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading sub module "vbe"
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so
(II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 945GM
(II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available.
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Loading sub module "i2c"
(II) LoadModule: "i2c"(II) Module "i2c" already built-in
(II) intel(0): Output VGA using monitor section Configured Monitor
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "CRTDDC_A" initialized.
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "LVDSDDC_C" initialized.
(II) intel(0): Attempting to determine panel fixed mode.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "SEC", prod id 17495
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so
(II) intel(0): initializing int10
(II) intel(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) intel(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 7872 kB
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB" initialized.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB:SDVO Controller B" registered at address 0x70.
(II) intel(0): No SDVO device found on SDVOB
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB:SDVO Controller B" removed.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB" removed.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" initialized.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C" registered at address 0x72.
(II) intel(0): No SDVO device found on SDVOC
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C" removed.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" removed.
(II) intel(0): Output TV has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "SEC", prod id 17495
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS connected
(II) intel(0): Output TV disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1440x900
(II) intel(0): Monitoring connected displays enabled
(II) intel(0): detected 256 kB GTT.
(II) intel(0): detected 7932 kB stolen memory.
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading sub module "exa"
(II) LoadModule: "exa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so
(II) Module exa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(II) intel(0): Comparing regs from server start up to After PreInit
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
(II) intel(0): Kernel reported 488960 total, 1 used
(II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 1955836 kB available
(II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.3
(II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded.
(II) intel(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables.
(II) intel(0): [drm] framebuffer mapped by ddx driver
(II) intel(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) intel(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) intel(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
(II) intel(0): Tiled allocation successful.
(II) intel(0): [drm] Registers = 0xeff00000
(II) intel(0): [drm] ring buffer = 0xd0000000
(II) intel(0): [drm] mapped front buffer at 0xd1000000, handle = 0xd1000000
(II) intel(0): [drm] mapped back buffer at 0xd5000000, handle = 0xd5000000
(II) intel(0): [drm] mapped depth buffer at 0xd6000000, handle = 0xd6000000
(II) intel(0): [drm] mapped classic textures at 0xd7000000, handle = 0xd7000000
(II) intel(0): [drm] Initialized kernel agp heap manager, 33554432
(II) intel(0): [dri] visual configs initialized
(II) intel(0): Page Flipping disabled
(II) intel(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(II) EXA(0): Offscreen pixmap area of 40992768 bytes
(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II) Solid
(II) Copy
(II) Composite (RENDER acceleration)
(II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
(II) intel(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x01000000 (pgoffset 4096)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 1 at 0x02000000 (pgoffset 8192)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 2 at 0x05000000 (pgoffset 20480)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 3 at 0x06000000 (pgoffset 24576)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 4 at 0x07000000 (pgoffset 28672)
(II) intel(0): Fixed memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000-0x0001ffff: ring buffer (128 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00020000-0x0061ffff: compressed frame buffer (6144 kB, 0x000000007f820000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x00620000-0x00620fff: compressed ll buffer (4 kB, 0x000000007fe20000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x00621000-0x0062afff: HW cursors (40 kB, 0x000000007fe21000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x0062b000-0x00632fff: logical 3D context (32 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00633000-0x00633fff: overlay registers (4 kB, 0x000000007fe33000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000: end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x01000000-0x01ffffff: front buffer (13344 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x02000000-0x04717fff: exa offscreen (40032 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x05000000-0x05ffffff: back buffer (13440 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x06000000-0x06ffffff: depth buffer (13440 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x07000000-0x08ffffff: classic textures (32768 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x10000000: end of aperture
(II) intel(0): Selecting standard 18 bit TMDS pixel format.
(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0): Pipe A is off
(II) intel(0): Display plane A is now disabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0): Pipe B is on
(II) intel(0): Display plane B is now enabled and connected to pipe B.
(II) intel(0): Output VGA is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS is connected to pipe B
(II) intel(0): Output TV is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16
(II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
(II) intel(0): Selecting standard 18 bit TMDS pixel format.
(II) intel(0): DPMS enabled
(II) intel(0): Set up textured video
(II) intel(0): Set up overlay video
(II) intel(0): direct rendering: Enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension XAccessControlExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 303 x 190
(II) Configured Mouse: Setting Device option to "/dev/input/mice"
(II) evaluating device (Configured Mouse)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: MOUSE)

I'm also having the exact same problem. I have a blacklisted video card (PCI ID 8086:2a02, Intel 965), but compiz has worked fine except for fullscreen video until I ran an update last week. I'm running Debian sid on a Thinkpad T61.

Some info:

Any thoughts?

Kyle