Bug#402545: compiz: Returning from another virtual terminal makes a black screen

[Philippe Perrin]

I retrieved the Xorg.log file for my compiz-enabled terminal. It adds 
the following lines, at the moment I try to go back and it makes the 
black screen:


(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024_74.00"
(II) Implicit Core Pointer: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

Does it help?
Thanks.


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Bug#402545: compiz: Returning from another virtual terminal makes a black screen

[Thomas Korber]

Philippe Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: compiz
> Version: 0.2.2-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> When I come back to the X session where compiz was started (vt8), I get
> a full black screen, except for my pointer which I can still see moving
> (and changing its shape depending on which area of the screen it is).
> There is no way for me to leave this black screen (no Ctrl+Alt
> combination works).

I can confirm this bug on my Debian unstable system, I also use the
NVIDIA drivers (1.0-9631) from experimental.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages compiz depends on:
ii  compiz-core   0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gnome  0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gtk0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-plugins0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana

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Bug#402545: compiz: Returning from another virtual terminal makes a black screen

[Thierry Reding]

* Philippe Perrin wrote:
> Package: compiz
> Version: 0.2.2-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I log into my Gnome session on virtual terminal 8 (Ctrl+Alt+8). It
> starts metacity by default. I start compiz manually (compiz --replace).
> I regularly need to switch back to the text consoles (vt1 = Ctrl+Alt+1)
> or to another X session (vt7).
> When I come back to the X session where compiz was started (vt8), I get
> a full black screen, except for my pointer which I can still see moving
> (and changing its shape depending on which area of the screen it is).
> There is no way for me to leave this black screen (no Ctrl+Alt
> combination works).
> I use the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver (1.0-9631). I followed the
> Debian howto for configuring my Xorg.conf
> (http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz).
> How can I get rid of this black screen? Thanks!

This is likely specific to the NVIDIA driver, but I haven't been able to
reproduce this with the NVIDIA driver and compiz 0.3.4, which will probably
be uploaded sometime soon.

However, it seems that switching to another terminal and back makes compiz
crash with the NVIDIA proprietary driver, but that's something you'll have to
take up with NVIDIA, it works fine with other open source drivers.

Thierry



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Bug#402545: compiz: Returning from another virtual terminal makes a black screen

[Philippe Perrin]

Package: compiz
Version: 0.2.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I log into my Gnome session on virtual terminal 8 (Ctrl+Alt+8). It
starts metacity by default. I start compiz manually (compiz --replace).
I regularly need to switch back to the text consoles (vt1 = Ctrl+Alt+1)
or to another X session (vt7).
When I come back to the X session where compiz was started (vt8), I get
a full black screen, except for my pointer which I can still see moving
(and changing its shape depending on which area of the screen it is).
There is no way for me to leave this black screen (no Ctrl+Alt
combination works).
I use the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver (1.0-9631). I followed the
Debian howto for configuring my Xorg.conf
(http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz).
How can I get rid of this black screen? Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages compiz depends on:
ii  compiz-core   0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gnome  0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-gtk0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  compiz-plugins0.2.2-1OpenGL window and compositing mana

compiz recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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