Fedora 10 on my thinkpad x40

[joe74]

Hello!

I've just installed fedora 10 on my old thinkpad x40... but I've got some problems I didn't have with f8 nor with f9.

It seems that something is causing metacity or compiz not to draw the windows, and my desktop effects are not working at all. When I try to enable the effects my whole screen goes white. I have installed the whole packages concerning compiz and compiz fusion.

This is what I get from compiz:

$ compiz --replace
[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.
compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

I've checked the xorg logs and everything seem fine. I'm using the "intel" generic driver as usually fedora has detected my card.

Other problems I'm having are some decoration borders go black or stripped with red :(

Can anyone gime a hand on how to fix this?

Thanx in advance!!

[bunnyqt]

God ,this is exactly the same problem I met, frustrated me all the day.
Looking forward to the proper solutions.
My laptop is Thinkpad r50e video card is 855gm.
when I try to run system-config-display to generate a xorg.conf , I can't choose the i810 driver .
that's to say in the xorg.conf , the device section driver must be "intel" if I change it to "i810" ,xorg will encounter a fatal error ,and will not start.

glxinfo | grep render
[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer


When to to start compiz with indirect rendering ,failed the same.

[joe74]

I've tried Ubuntu 8.10 in the same equipment... and you know? everythings working fine with compiz and emerald window decorator... the xorg log is almost identic as in fedora 10. So I wonder what goes wrong.

This is what I get in Ubuntu terminal:

~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x768) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.

And differs quite much from fedora's.

I thought this may include some more usefull information. Any graphic cards guru?

[joe74]

God ,this is exactly the same problem I met, frustrated me all the day.
Looking forward to the proper solutions.
My laptop is Thinkpad r50e video card is 855gm.
when I try to run system-config-display to generate a xorg.conf , I can't choose the i810 driver .
that's to say in the xorg.conf , the device section driver must be "intel" if I change it to "i810" ,xorg will encounter a fatal error ,and will not start.

glxinfo | grep render
[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer


When to to start compiz with indirect rendering ,failed the same.

The same problem with intel graphics, my friend.

[bunnyqt]

yes , I also tried ubuntu 8.10 before I move to fedora 10. Everything works fine in ubuntu , the hotkeys and compiz.

According to glxinfo output , the error seems has something with mesa and xorg intel driver. but , I guess ubuntu and fedora may use the same xorg version and intel driver.
Anyone has any solutions with this error ?

glxinfo | grep direct
[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

[joe74]

It's a shame I have to use Ubuntu, though I like it, I'd rather being using Fedora 10, which is what I've used in this x40 since Fedora 8...

Hope someone have us some help.

[bunnyqt]

joe74 : you have both an ubuntu and fedora installed right ?

Try to replace fedora's /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so with ubuntu's
.See if it's the driver problem.
I compiled the xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 myself with no luck.

[joe74]

That's right. But at first I tried only fedora, then created the partition for ubuntu.

[bunnyqt]

Good news is I got rid of the error message .But I don't know what exact I did made it right, cause I did so many tweaks these two days. I guess may be the recompiling the newest intel driver .
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.5.1.tar.gz
after your "make install" the "intel_drv.so" was intalled in/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers.
but I don't know if "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so" was also updated ,so I also replaced the intel_drv.so with the newly compiled version . Give it a try !

[gaduga]

hi,

i try compiling and install the new drivers.
but no 3d. when i enable desktop efects i got a blank screen.

[joe74]

I'll give it a try, though I don't think it's the driver.

Is compiz working fine for you?

[bunnyqt]

Is compiz working fine for you?

No!

at first it's the white blank screen.and now it's black blank screen.

yeah, I don't think it's the driver problem ,it's the xorg's .when I comb through xorg.0.log
,I found xorg automatically load i915's dri.so ,but my graphic card is 855gm, it's sure doesn't work. so xorg can't start aiglx correctly. if you disable aiglx in xorg.conf ,the blank screen's problem solved ,but compiz effects could not be shown.

ps. install fusion-icon and run fusion-icon -n in the terminal ,what's the output ?

[joe74]

I don't know what I did, but my fedora 10 got ruined. I got really tired of trying to run it as I want. To solve some pending work I installed f9, but sure I'll get back to try again. I'll let you know if I get lucky.

Regards, and don't give up!