one of the current quirks i have with my latitude d620 and ubuntu is when i either dock or undock i have to restart X11 in order to fix the second display (or remove it). yeah, kinda annoying… i should definantly take a closer look at xrandr to dynamically add or remove displays. [ here ]

update: apparently you have to use twinview vs xinerama…. booo.

$ compiz –replace &
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:01d7 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (3040×1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

sweet! i broke my setup. i’ll never figure out why i have such issues with laptops & docking stations. good thing i have backup xorg.confs, guess i’ll have to go back and make sure i have the right settings. i have a feeling that Xgl isn’t gonna be the only thing missing from my xorg.conf.

here’s some ubuntu/compiz/xorg.conf links
[help.ubuntu.com][ubuntuguide][technowizah][blog.anantshri][compiz/ubuntu]

On the other hand, we’ve done a lot of work over the past few weeks to get things working. Java apps, for example, should work now. We closed about 60 bugs in a week. Most of them were little annoyances, some were worse. A particularly bad one that is now fixed is gnome-screensaver not being able to lock the screen properly when compiz is running. I think we fixed the screen redraw issues after xrandr rotation but I’m not sure as my hardware does not support xrandr.

Another good thing, nVidia released the 100.14.19 driver which finally fixes the out-of-memory problems with texture_from_pixmap (black windows). Seems to also fix the problems with black screens after VT switch. All around it’s a pretty solid driver. We’ve also fixed the bug in Xorg that made nvidia+compiz+3d app crash the X server. nVidia should be working great now so long as your card is supported by the 100.14.19 driver. [here]

hrm. maybe i should grab the latest compiz build along with the nvidia driver? i have had a few issues with gnome-screensaver + compiz, although if i kill off the xserver (ctrl+alt+del) and log back in, my applications are still running. it’s almost like the 3 finger salute is only killing off compiz.real and not my actual x session?

`compiz –replace` & starting/stopping the gl desktop have fixed a few issues. still haven’t updated my xorg driver yet.

update: the latest nvidia driver does wonders for my dell laptop + ubuntu + compiz. wheee!