compiz problem [Solved]

[dunsurfin]

Another thank you micia. I updated my laptop (Dell Studio 17 with Intel graphics running SLx86 6 K, fully updated, kernel 3) today and found the same problem as well as some curious black areas before menus appeared. Your fix has worked for me using the pic flag and emerging the latest mesa. It cured the black areas too. Thanks also for the information about ignore-spm-downgrades which I didn't know about and have now enabled.

[micia]

I think that the one to thank should be DanAlucard that had the patience to solve this issue

However today I found mesa-7.11 on entropy, maybe this version will solve the issue on entropy based systems too.

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equo search mesa
>>  @@ Searching...
>>      @@ Package: media-libs/mesa-7.11 branch: 5, [sabayonlinux.org]
>>         Available:     version: 7.11 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>>         Installed:     version: 7.11 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
>>         Description:   OpenGL-like graphic library for
>>                        Linux
>>         License:       LGPL-2 kilgard


[DanAlucard]

@ micia: sorry for the late reply, but as we've solved this, i forgot to keep track of the post

answering your question about the pic flag, I haven't enabled/disabled any USE flag. Just installed mesa from portage with "emerge -1av mesa", and it worked.
I've thought trying to install it with default config first, and then try other flag enabling/disabling if default don't work... but that wasn't necessary

I'm glad to see that this is useful for someone else

I'm performing now a global update. After that i will install the entropy version of mesa and see if the problem persists. If it doesn't, then i will edit the main message to show everyone with this problem that upgrading mesa from entropy is the solution. But only if that works

EDIT: it seems that mesa 7.11 from entropy works just nicely. no need to use portage now.

Thanks a lot for your help on this micia