Hi,

I'm on an AMD64 Hp system (AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor, as
reported by Kinfo). I've switched to an ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics
card a few days ago. Everything is back to working conditions, except
compositing in KDE. I'm using Debian sid packages for kde and fglrx
(the latter built with module-assistant). System Settings says
"Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions
(XComposite and XDamage) are not available." Switching compositing type
under the "Advanced" tab results in the message: "Failed to activate
desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be
reverted to their previous values. Check your X configuration. You may
also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the
compositing type.

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has:

---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 1920 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "GLcore"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
Option "Damage" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-CRT2" "0-CRT2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-CRT1" "0-CRT1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1"
Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---

Which was produced with aticonfig and the fglrx control center for a
dual-monitor setup. Any help finding a cure appreciated.

Cheers,

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On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:58:50 -0500,
Seb <spluque@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

Doing "awk '/Composite/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log" I see:

---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
(**) Extension "Composite" is enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Sync: Separate Composite
(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension is not loaded
(II) fglrx(1): Composite extension is not loaded
---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---

which suggests the extension is being unloaded at some point, and the
lines above the third line above are:

---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
(II) fglrx(0): GLESX is enabled
(II) LoadModule: "amdxmm"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so
(II) Module amdxmm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 1.0.0
(II) Loading extension AMDXVOPL
(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension is not loaded
---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---

Any tips?

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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:37:00 +0300,
Valentin Pavlyuchenko <thevalik@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't remember exactly, but I had quite the same issues with fglrx
> on my 4870x2 at some moment. I've just switched to opensource driver
> and enjoyed faster compositing that I had with fglrx

Eventually I got this working by turning off Xinerama, and enabling
multi-display desktop. The post that revealed this to me was:

http://majantali.blogspot.com/2010/04/dual-head-setup-with-ati-radeon-hd-4650.html

Thanks,

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