Brian Cameron wrote: > > If GLX is not working, then this would likely cause problems for > any program that requires OpenGL. Therefore, I'd expect that > compiz would not work on your system. It would be interesting > to find out if the problem goes away if you switch your window > manager to metacity.
I believe it's always being running metacity. > I'm not sure the best way to do this if your system hangs when > the session starts. Normally you enable or disable compiz in the > "Appearance" properties dialog. > > Note that the /usr/bin/compiz script has code to try and identify > whether the system can support compiz or not. Perhaps that code > is not working on your system for some reason? > > You could try hacking the /usr/bin/compiz script so that it just > always calls "abort_with_metacity". Does that make a difference? If I'm running metacity (i.e System->Preferences->Appearance Visual Effects set to "None", will it still try to run/start compiz? > On 01/04/10 14:51, Rich Burridge wrote: >> John Martin wrote: >>> On 01/ 4/10 02:24 PM, Rich Burridge wrote: >>>> Aborting with metacity >>>> Reason : /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports nvidia graphics driver not >>>> installed. >>>> >>> >>> Had you previously installed an alternate NVIDIA driver? >> >> Not that I'm aware of. >> >>> The IPS bug which >>> removes non-empty directories populated by SYSV packages will remove >>> the >>> NVIDIA X driver as the X directory paths changed in b130. >>> >> >> >> >> Brian Cameron wrote: >>> The following message in your log looks suspicious to me: >>> >>> > Aborting with metacity >>> > Reason : /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports nvidia graphics driver not >>> > installed. >>> >>> Is there any information in the Xorg logs that might highlight >>> the problem? >> >> I'm not an expert on this, so I've attached the Xorg log file from >> build #130 which fails (Xorg.0.log.bad) and the one from build >> #129 that works (Xorg.0.log.good). >> >> It would appear to be a problem with the GLX driver, but I don't >> believe I've done anything special here (apart from the image-update). >> >> Thanks. >> >
