compiz - Jun 2008 - Many thanks for compiz-0.7.6, but 1 box now experiences WSOD

Danny, All

	Thanks for a great compiz-0.7.6. The cylinder takes a little warming up to, 
but is really cool. Of all the boxes I have updated, I have one that now 
experiences the White Screen of Death (WSOD) when compiz is started. Killing X 
with ctrl+alt+backspace or ssh from remote and kill compiz and emerald is the 
only way out.

	The box was working fine with fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE103-8.476-1 and compiz-0.7.4. 
After update to compiz-0.7.6., the black white cube appears. I have updated the 
fglrx driver to 8.493-1, but the same white cube appears.

	Compiz starts, but just before, or during the splash screen, the desktop turns 
white.

	What do you suggest I check? Is there anything I should change in the 
Default.ini file? Thanks for your help.

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Hi,
> 	Thanks for a great compiz-0.7.6. The cylinder takes a little warming up
to,
> but is really cool. Of all the boxes I have updated, I have one that now 
> experiences the White Screen of Death (WSOD) when compiz is started.
Killing X
> with ctrl+alt+backspace or ssh from remote and kill compiz and emerald is
the
> only way out.
> 
> 	The box was working fine with fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE103-8.476-1 and
compiz-0.7.4.
> After update to compiz-0.7.6., the black white cube appears. I have updated
the
> fglrx driver to 8.493-1, but the same white cube appears.
> 
> 	Compiz starts, but just before, or during the splash screen, the desktop
turns
> white.
> 
> 	What do you suggest I check? Is there anything I should change in the 
> Default.ini file? Thanks for your help.
A white screen is an almost sure sign of broken / improperly installed
drivers. Most likely, the wrong libGL is used by Compiz (the Mesa one,
not the FGLRX one), so that binding the pixmaps to textures fails.

I don't know how to solve that for OpenSuse, but that's the direction I
would search in.

Regards,

Danny