On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:34:49 -0500 Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> said:
> Carsten, > > Can you try the 280 drivers on the 330m? That is what I am using currently > that causes the issue (will have to try the older drivers later this week to > see if that fixes the issue). Will also try some of your custom options > there. i'm normally quite loathe to upgrade in a hurry. as such i wont have time to check as thats a laptop that's going to float at home and i wouldn't be able to check until at least the weekend :( try downgrading driver :) it may actually make things work for you and is what you'll have to do anyway even if i can confirm that the 280 driver breaks things, so you may as well do it anyway :) > Yes I am sure the 3D drivers are working and are installed properly - > Starcraft 2 works A-OK. i'd say not a-ok. compositing does things that starcraft does not. it requires the drivers be forced to redirect rendering from a linear (or maybe swizzled) framebuffer to pixmaps/textures that may now be swizzled or linear - who knows. it's an internal driver implementation detail. that means memory layout is entirely different for pixels in these 2 modes. it also means rendering "to the screen" for apps actually goes to lots of different bits of video ram (one section per window) and then later is copied and rendered to the real screen by the compositor (e). so saying "starcraft 2 works" only says "well opengl can draw stuff" but it's entirely missing a new part of the pipeline compositing enables. :) > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:59:24 -0500 Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> > > said: > > > > > Hey All, > > > > > > So on my sony laptop that has an nvidia 330m cannot use compositing in > > > OpenGL mode. 3D applications work fine, but when telling compositing to > > use > > > OpenGL all I get is white rectangle in the upper right hand corner of my > > > screen. > > > > > > The exact same xserver/package versions and nvidia driver versions work > > A-OK > > > with opengl compositing on my 260m nvidia card. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > have you tweaked the driver in any way? (options)? smells of a driver bug > > to me > > - but the first one i've seen on nvidia like this. are you SURE its using > > nvidia and not nouveau? working fine for me on: > > > > GTS 450 (GF116) > > GT 330M (GT216) > > > > both use: > > > > NVIDIA GLX Module 270.41.06 Mon Apr 18 15:10:15 PDT 2011 > > VIDIA dlloader X Driver 270.41.06 Mon Apr 18 14:55:25 PDT 2011 > > > > i happen to tweak my nvidia drivers a bit. the 330M on the vaio i had to > > fix to > > make sure the display works at all with a customedid - nothing to do with > > compositing. this was just getting display up at all with the nvidia driver > > (sony did something odd on this machine). other than that though my options > > are: > > > > Option "NoLogo" "True" > > Option "XvMCUsesTextures" "True" > > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" > > Option "Coolbits" "7" > > Option "TripleBuffer" "True" > > Option "UseEvents" "True" > > Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True" > > > > (same on both boxes - with the desktop also having some twinview setup > > too) > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/> > Thoughts on Technology <http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/>, Tech Blog > Bodhi Linux <http://bodhilinux.com/>, Enlightenment for your Desktop > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
