[indiana-discuss] Lost compiz after upgrade to 2008.11 ?

[Mark R. Bowyer]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:15 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Mark R Bowyer wrote:
> > Well, I just hit this - wish I'd found this thread before I image-updated. =O(
> > 
> > Before, with the initial install, to get compiz to work on my Ferrari 3400 (with ATI 9700 graphics) I had to install Minskey's nv77 radeon driver, then reinstall the compiz from Erwann's blog, --with-experimental-ati-support.  Then it worked.
> > 
> > After the upgrade to 2008.11, I found compiz couldn't start again - same "no AIGLX, so this wont work" error.  So once again I add the radeon driver and reinstall compiz, and this doesn't change anything.
> > 
> > And now I don't know even how to get back the 2008.11 binaries to try something else =O}  I didn't realise before that the compiz install replaces the xserver binary too, for instance.
> > 
> > Can anyone provide some advice?  It's all working great on my U20 with NVidia.  I'd just like it working again on my ATI based laptop. =O}
> 
> The radeon DRI drivers are integrated into nv_90 - I was able to run compiz
> on my Ferrari 4000 (not well, but it started) after doing the pkg image-update
> without having to change or tweak anything.

OK, well I'm using the Package Manager to remove and reinstall the
compiz, SUNWxorg-graphics-ddx and SUNWxorg-server packages, to try to
get back what I had, and will try again.  But I'm not sure why it failed
before, or if, for instance, I still need the radeon/dri kernel modules
- these seem to only have the Xserver modules in?

Ta,
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