Black windows with compiz-fusion on

Bug #225625 reported by paulcross
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

New opend windows became black with compiz-fusion on.But when you scale those windows to a smaller size, the content of it appears again.

Right now , the only solution is switch-off the compiz-fusion.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
 We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Thomas Silvestre (silvestre-t) wrote :

I've got the same problem.
After login everything is ok, but after opening/closing windows (let's say after one or two hour), I have to restart compiz because every new window is black.

So how to reproduce the symptom: fire up a lot of windows (for me ~700 xlogo)
for ((i=0;i<700;i++))
do
  xlogo &
done
killall xlogo

Here are some additional informations:

sudo lspci -v -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. Unknown device 53c3
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 17
 Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

compiz version: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu7

lsmod | grep nv
nvidia 7825536 34
i2c_core 24832 1 nvidia
agpgart 34760 2 nvidia,intel_agp

cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008

Following the last comment in this thread seems to help:
"mjamesd February 18th, 2008, 11:00 AM
I'm on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with nVidia 6800 GT (I think) and compiz-fusion. I edited the /usr/bin/compiz file, line with COMPIZ_OPTIONS to be this:
COMPIZ_OPTIONS="--ignore-desktop-hints --indirect-rendering --replace"
and I stopped getting black windows. Good luck, everyone."

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Nick Booker (nmbooker) wrote :

There was no activity since June last year, so I've set to Invalid for now.

paulcross could you tell us whether you are still having this problem, and if so post more information as per the first reply.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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