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Ok. Problem solved.

It actually was an issue with OpenGL.
It was a problem with my version of Mesa. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing something went wrong in the update, I uninstalled gl1-mesa-glx and installed gl1-mesa-dri and gl1-mesa-swx11. Then I ran "compiz --replace" and it worked, but very slowly and there were thick black borders on my windows. I saw in the output that texture_from_pixmap was present and that it never tried indirect rendering. So I uninstalled gl1-mesa-swx11 and installed gl1-mesa-glx again and then compiz ran perfectly. I saw in the output that texture_from_pixmap was not present, but then it tried indirect rendering and then it found texture from pixmap.
Now everything is working except the "unsupported" plugins. They disable themselves whenever I enable them. Anybody know how to force them to work?

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Originally Posted by prushik (Post 3724329)

Nope. I did not compile my own kernel, I'm using kernel 2.6.31-14-generic from the Ubuntu karmic repositories.
I already posted the output of 'dmesg | grep drm' (I added a '-i' to grep) it was:

Code:

prushik@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -i drm

[  281.789186] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810

[  281.850352] [drm] radeon default to kernel modesetting DISABLED.

[  281.850552] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

How should I remove fglrx? Through synaptic or apt or what?

Depends on how you installed it. If you installed it via synaptic, then that's how you should remove it.

Adam