>I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I thought of as well-- and >I've never even seen it in use, much less used it myself. > >But would changing xorg.conf help, if the xorg package was compiled with >the +composite USE flag set (which is what I at least am wondering >about, rather than whether it's activated in the config or not)? > >I don't know anything about the feature, really, but given that all your >problems seem to involve sudden, extreme, and unwanted transparency, and >that's what composite does (transparency).... > >...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly >running? > >Holly > > You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing 'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal, I re-emerged nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel, re-booted, re-tryed 'nvidia' and wierdness returned.
Haven't got any more time but will look at it this evening ... Cheers Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
