It turns out the default AccelMethod of xdriver “intel” has been changed to EXA, and it’s a known issue that EXA does not work with compiz. So I force the AccelMethod to “XAA” and compiz works again now.
May 15, 2008
May 12, 2008
fonts disappeared
I’m using debian testing (lenny) and after the latest update my xserver no longer display fonts. This is not totally true because I can still see the fonts on gdm, but after logging in, no fonts whatsoever. It turns out the i810 Xorg driver is messed up and I have to set NoAccel to true to avoid it.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "NoAccel" "true"
# Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection
BTW I can use compiz without NoAccel before if I delete the device id from the blacklist in compiz start up script.
