No *bling* for me. Starting compiz hangs machine

[Ralph angenendt]

Moin,

as I had some time yesterday, I did a fresh install of fc6 test3 on my
IBM T40 - though I kept my /home partition.

Eager to see the bling (which didn't work for me in the "XAir times"
either) I ran

gnome-window-decorator &
compiz --replace gconf

And *blam* - the machine shows a very short to none activity on disk and
then hangs completely. Anyone else seeing this/being able to reproduce
it?

As the machine is not recoverable, I have no output from dmesg ...

ATI M9 (9000) with compiz-0.0.13-0.25.20060817git.fc6,
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-38.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-1.fc6.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207905 for
more information.

Regards,

Ralph

[Dwaine Garden]

Do you have the latest ati drivers.  The binary ones from ATI?

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Subject: No *bling* for me. Starting compiz hangs machine

Moin,

as I had some time yesterday, I did a fresh install of fc6 test3 on my
IBM T40 - though I kept my /home partition.

Eager to see the bling (which didn't work for me in the "XAir times"
either) I ran

gnome-window-decorator &
compiz --replace gconf

And *blam* - the machine shows a very short to none activity on disk and
then hangs completely. Anyone else seeing this/being able to reproduce
it?

As the machine is not recoverable, I have no output from dmesg ...

ATI M9 (9000) with compiz-0.0.13-0.25.20060817git.fc6,
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-38.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-1.fc6.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207905 for
more information.

Regards,

Ralph

[Ralph angenendt]

Dwaine Garden wrote:
> Do you have the latest ati drivers.  The binary ones from ATI?

No.
> > ATI M9 (9000) with compiz-0.0.13-0.25.20060817git.fc6,
> >    xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-38.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-1.fc6.

See?

After "todays" updates (~130 packages?) I have now:

kernel-2.6.18-1.2693.fc6, xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-40.fc6,
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-1.fc6 and compiz-0.0.13-0.27.20060817git.fc6.

And still a machine which hangs on turning on compiz ...

Ralph

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
<snip>
> After "todays" updates (~130 packages?) I have now:
>
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2693.fc6, xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-40.fc6,
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-1.fc6 and compiz-0.0.13-0.27.20060817git.fc6.
>
> And still a machine which hangs on turning on compiz ...
>
> Ralph

FWIW, I have the same problem on an i386 machine with radeon 9200 
graphics card.  Hard freeze, no msgs, have to hit the ol' reset switch 
to get out of it.  On reboot, all is well without the bling.

Is there a bz to update on this?

[Ralph angenendt]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > And still a machine which hangs on turning on compiz ...
>
> FWIW, I have the same problem on an i386 machine with radeon 9200 
> graphics card.  Hard freeze, no msgs, have to hit the ol' reset switch 
> to get out of it.  On reboot, all is well without the bling.

After another update: compiz-0.0.13-0.28.20060817git.fc6,
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-43.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-2.fc6 I see it
still freezing.

But as others have mentioned: *bling* works, when I log into a failsafe
session (but throws some errors about dbus). At least it doesn't hang
the machine.
> Is there a bz to update on this?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207905 is what I
opened.

Ralph

[Alan]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > And still a machine which hangs on turning on compiz ...
> >
> > FWIW, I have the same problem on an i386 machine with radeon 9200
> > graphics card.  Hard freeze, no msgs, have to hit the ol' reset switch
> > to get out of it.  On reboot, all is well without the bling.
>
> After another update: compiz-0.0.13-0.28.20060817git.fc6,
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-43.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-2.fc6 I see it
> still freezing.
>
> But as others have mentioned: *bling* works, when I log into a failsafe
> session (but throws some errors about dbus). At least it doesn't hang
> the machine.

This used to work for me, but some very recient update fubared it and I 
get the hangs as well.

I am using an ATI 9250 card.

I also get a mass of errors when I try "system-config-display --reconfig".