So, I am trying to get compiz working on my system (2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64, Radeon X1900 XTX, ATI Proprietary Drivers 8.31.5, xgl 0.0.1_pre20061108, mesa 6.5.2, xorg-x11 7.1)


ATI fglrx 8.31.5 does not support GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmaps, so compiz (and beryl too) die saying "No managable screen found." Xgl opens fine using ATI fglrx but I just can't use compiz/beryl.

Unofficial radeon driver does not support my Radeon X1900 card (no acceleration).

Using xorg-x11 libGL goes terribly slow that it is out of the question for it to run on my computer with compiz, so I would have to turn to my videocard drivers. If I do use xorg-x11, Xgl opens a display and I can successfully use compiz and gtk-window-decorator, but after awhile it has issues refreshing windows. After about ten seconds in, it will only refresh windows when I resize them.

So, is it possible to use compiz with my video card to where it runs smoothly (ie, windows do not jump two inches when moving them if you know what i mean)? And if I do have to use the xorg-x11 opengl drivers, how do i solve the problem with the refreshing?



Here is my xorg.conf entry for the fglrx driver (pretty bare, just used aticonfig --initial):

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

I'll take that as a no?

Nevermind. I got it to work using Beryl and the --use-copy flag. Documentation says --use-copy flag makes it slower than using TFP but its not that big of a deal.