[arch-general] No Compiz with current Kernels - but compiz with Linux alchemy 2.6.32-lts OK - Huh?

[Allan McRae]

On 12/07/10 14:12, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 09:32 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> On my box I continue to have problems with the current kernels on,
>> booting lts
>> works fine with compiz - how is that so? IIRC - lts used to be cli
>> only, now it
>> boots into runlevel 5 just fine.
>>
>> Any thoughts on why compiz won't run on 2.6.34-2 or 2.6.34.1-1?
>>
>> I'll keep tinkering, but any help would be appreciated...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Here is a bit more information:
>
> I don't do anything different when booting or starting Arch with any of
> the kernels or the radeon driver. I am totally confused why compiz works
> great with LTS, but white-screens with the current kernel. For both
> kernels, I don't use an xorg.conf and the modules loaded look the same:
>
>
> 23:07 alchemy:~> kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 23:08 alchemy:~> uname -a
> Linux alchemy 2.6.32-lts #1 SMP Wed Jun 2 10:23:08 UTC 2010 x86_64 AMD
> Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 23:09 alchemy:~> lsmod | grep rad
> radeon 566427 2
> ttm 35663 1 radeon
> drm_kms_helper 22278 1 radeon
> drm 151569 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
> i2c_algo_bit 5031 1 radeon
> i2c_core 18070 4 i2c_piix4,radeon,drm,i2c_algo_bit
>
> Allan, anybody, can you think of a reason compiz would be
> white-screening with the current kernel and working fine with LTS?
>

Anything relevant in you Xorg log file?