No desktop effects after fglrx installed with Fedora 8 (Lenovo T60)

[sweetrain]

Hi, there. I followed this link to installed fglrx+xgl+compiz-fusion on Fedora 7, without a problem. I've got awesome desktop top effects. However, after a clean installation of Fedora 8, and followed the installation instruction, I have fglrx 8.42.3 successfully installed, but got no desktop effects.

Here are some info about the situation. The version of fglrx is: 8.42.3:

[root@localhost ~]# yum info kmod-fglrx
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Installed Packages
Name   : kmod-fglrx
Arch   : i686
Version: 8.42.3
Release: 7.lvn8
Size   : 0.0 
Repo   : installed
Summary: Metapackage which tracks in fglrx kernel module for newest kernel

Description:
This is a meta-package without payload which sole purpose is to require the
fglrx kernel module(s) for the newest kernel,
to make sure you get it together with a new kernel.

And fglrxinfo output:

[root@localhost ~]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

And the output of glxinfo:

[root@localhost ~]#  glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:

It seems that I have installed the correct driver, and there is direct rendering.

However, when I tried to enable desktop effect, it failed me:

[root@localhost ~]# desktop-effects
compiz (core) - Fatal: No valid GL extensions string found.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

In my xorg.conf file reads:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "EmulateWheel" "yes"
        Option      "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "UserFastTLS" "0"
        Option      "BlockSignalOnLock" "on"
        Option      "ForceGenericCPU" "off"
        Option      "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
        Option      "UserInternalAGPGART" "no"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

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

Can you give me some help here?
Thanks!

[kevmif]

Exactly the same thing here....

[Deore]

Same problem (see my first issue here )

Could it be something with the kernel? I have been reading that people were having no problems with the 2.6.22 kernel, not sure about fglrx version though...

[cgrim]

I've the same problem. Before upgrade on F8, beryl worked fine for me.
Now when I try to run compiz it returns:

$ compiz --replace
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 don't understand why compiz-manager wants to use XGL? (AIGLX is in Fedora so what technika!):

$ /usr/bin/compiz-manager --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present. 
No whitelisted driver found aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

When I try to run glxinfo it freezes sometimes.

[sweetrain]

I had to Ctrl-C it, and ran them again, to get the results. This happens almost half the time.

[cgrim]

There is some info http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=5&gl=cz
but I don't understand French

[Jebba33]

I am in the same situation. Beryl was fine in 7. Not so fine in 8.

[psyklops]

Exactly the same symptoms here. I basically setup compiz-fusion using leigh123's rpm binaries from here: http://www.4shared.com/file/28678428...99i386tar.html

I'm running F8 on a HP NC6000, here's the section from lspci:

...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
...

glxinfo

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
...

I have to hit Ctrl-C to about half the time (usually after it's first reboot) to get it to go to get it to generate the glxinfo.

Here's the extract from starting fusion-icon:

 * Detected Session: gnome
 * Searching for installed applications...
 * No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context
 ... nor with indirect rendering, this isn't going to work!
 * Using the GTK Interface
 * Decorator "" is invalid.
 * Setting decorator to GTK Window Decorator ("gtk-window-decorator --replace")
 * Starting Compiz
 ... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp
compiz (core) - Fatal: No sync extension
 * Launching Settings Manager
 * Reloading compiz
 ... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp
compiz (core) - Fatal: No sync extension
 * Setting decorator to Emerald ("emerald --replace")
 * Launching Emerald Theme Manager

Here's my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Synaptics"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
	Option	    "VideoOverlay" "on"
	Option	    "UseFastTLS" "0"
	Option	    "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
	Option	    "ForceGenericCPU" "off"
	Option	    "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection

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

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

[xzhou]

I could enable desktop effects on my T61. It works very well.
But I can not update the system and can not start Firefox!

[PilotJLR]

Same problem here as well, with F8 on an HP nc6400 with an X1300 card.

[amanadas]

I have the same problem with a ATI mobility Radeon X600. After initial install, Desktop effects was working correctly (radeon driver) but glxgears was giving me only 1819.775 FPS. After installing the latest fglrx driver from livna I get 3395.691 FPS but Desktop effects are not working. I get the same error "compiz (core) - Fatal: No valid GL extensions string found." And now i cant go back to the Radeon driver because after i installed the livna drivers desktop effects stop working with this driver also. Any ideas?

[Deore]

Originally Posted by amanadas

I have the same problem with a ATI mobility Radeon X600. After initial install, Desktop effects was working correctly (radeon driver) but glxgears was giving me only 1819.775 FPS. After installing the latest fglrx driver from livna I get 3395.691 FPS but Desktop effects are not working. I get the same error "compiz (core) - Fatal: No valid GL extensions string found." And now i cant go back to the Radeon driver because after i installed the livna drivers desktop effects stop working with this driver also. Any ideas?

If you want to use the "radeon" driver, you need to stop the fglrx service because it changes your xorg.conf upon boot to use the fglrx driver.

[Waggoneer]

I have DRI working, and my frame rates are way up, but I still get a failure when I try and enable desktop effects.

compiz (core) - Fatal: No valid GL extensions string found.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

[truscott]

From the Unofficial ATI Linux driver Wiki

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Fed...allation_Guide

General Status

* Fedora 8 is included as a generatable package since version 8.42.3 of the AMD Proprietary Linux driver. "sh ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg | grep -i fedora" shows "Fedora/F8" in the output.
* Unfortunately the driver kernel module currently fails to compile since Linux kernel version 2.6.23 is not yet supported. See this bugzilla report for kernel 2.6.23 for more information.

[psyklops]

good information... explains the issues. I might experiment a little with the laptop tonight, otherwise I might just wait for a kernel update...