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SL text all blurry/w compiz
LordJason Kiesler
imperfection inventor.
Join date: 30 May 2004
Posts: 215
05-21-2006 13:51
Running xorg-7,
xgl,
compiz with..
  1. gconf


  2. decoration


  3. wobbly


  4. fade


  5. minimize


  6. cube


  7. rotate


  8. zoom


  9. scale


  10. move


  11. resize


  12. place


  13. state


  14. switcher


  15. trailfocus


  16. bs,
Ubuntu dapper-6.06,
gnome-2.14.1,
and nvidia 87.56
All of the text in the sl window becomes totaly unreadable shortly after login.
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Hello Toonie
Registered User
Join date: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 212
05-22-2006 00:15
Almost certainly xgl's fault...
LordJason Kiesler
imperfection inventor.
Join date: 30 May 2004
Posts: 215
07-10-2006 18:26
From: Hello Toonie
Almost certainly xgl's fault...

Well your most probably correct, But just for (whoever's) information...
"Compiz" itself has nothing to do with it, the problem shows up while running just XGL and Sl.
Running Sl under wine results in a dialog saying "Can't find suitable pixel format", with "err:wgl:X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat glXChooseFBConfig returns NULL (glError: 0)" in the terminal.
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Kaspar Hawes
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Join date: 5 Sep 2006
Posts: 1
09-06-2006 03:48
same setup here. exact same problem too.
Antonius Misfit
Certifiable Linux Addict
Join date: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 97
Don't run SL under XGL/Compiz
09-06-2006 06:45
Running XGL/Compiz taxes your graphics card. You're essentially running a graphics-intensive program(SL) on top of a graphics-intensive environment(XGL/Compiz). Until graphics cards can handle that situation with no slowdowns, just run SL under a regular Gnome or KDE session.
Merrick Moose
Registered User
Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
09-06-2006 14:05
Hrrrm. Running Ubuntu Edgy with XGL/Compiz and I am not noticing any problems, frame rate is the same as when not running XGL/Compiz. Though Edgy is in alpha stages right now, it could just be today that it is working correctly. XGL/Compiz is relatively new, so may have such bugs. Running two alpha level programs can run into lots of bugs!
Zoopster Butoh
Registered User
Join date: 11 Sep 2006
Posts: 4
Running great
09-11-2006 10:45
Using XGL/Compiz on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. No blurry text except for the fact that my character is obviously blind until he get's up close to the text.

For those that have problems, I'd suggest updating the video driver.
Merrick Moose
Registered User
Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
09-11-2006 15:58
Yeah, actually if the most recent nVidia driver will fix this. Dunno if it is a problem for ATI based cards.