showing no window in Ubuntu

happilylazy · Post by **happilylazy** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:49 am

Hi. Here's one quickie.
Why when i run (windowed) with EDT_SOFTWARE mode i get a nice window with x in the top and everything, and when i switch to EDT_OPENGL the window disappears?
It has the game running but no window, no caption, and upon exiting the picture lags on screen until I refresh manually.

sp00n · Post by **sp00n** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:14 am

What model of videocard do you use? Do you instal a right drivers for it (it needs for correct OpenGL working, especialy if you use ATI)

randomMesh · Post by **randomMesh** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:32 am

You have to disable Compiz.

happilylazy · Post by **happilylazy** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:33 am

OK, I installed blender and it is broken too, so I think it's drivers or OpenGL error.

My video card is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrate
d Graphics Controller (rev 10)

Sucky, I know but it should be running OpenGL OK.
I'm running Ubuntu with standard modules
Qt 4 OpenGL module
freeglut3-dev
glutg3-dev

But what about drivers, can you help fix these?

happilylazy · Post by **happilylazy** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:38 am

randomMesh wrote:You have to disable Compiz.

Whoa, how did you know.
It works!

But as I programmer I am I have to ask what causes clash between Compiz and OpenGL. How to make them work together.
Yey another problem to solve.