Resize window = crash/resource hog (radeon hd3870)

[mattetjus]

Hi all,

love the new Mageia
(though i do miss some packages from the massive manny-repositories)

I have the following problem:

Any window that i want to resize causes the size of the window to, seemingly, get infinitly large.
Example:
i open "konsole" via [alt+f2], the terminal open 600x400 in size; as soon as i grab any of the window borders, the instant i click, before i even have time to move the mouse pointer, the konsole windows right and bottom sides "run away", bottom side keeps going downwards and the right side keeps going right until the system gets inresponsive or i quickly manage to exit the program.

fglrx 8.881 (proprietary drivers)
Kde 4.6.5
kernel 2.6.38.8-desktop-5.mga
x86_64
compiz 0.8.6
kde4-window-decorator
xorg.conf:

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Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "False" # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
    #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Generic"
    ModelName "Flat Panel 1360x768"
    HorizSync 31.5-48.0
    VertRefresh 56.0-65.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeon/fglrx)"
    Driver "fglrx"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection


the graphics does work properly (all compiz effects, flash video, video, games (wine->wow), fgl_glxgears,...)

i will turn compiz off and restart to see if that avoids the problem.
the built in effects in kwin(?) does not work properly btw.. but since i prefer compiz, i havent experimented with it.

my guess is that the window decorator malfunctions (which has been hugging the resources), but, could also be some other problem causing the window bug and the decorator just "follows along"...

any other suggestions?
google:
- Bug 1352 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352
is similar, except without compiz and nvidia instead of amd/ati radeon...
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116544
interresting read, cant find any solution though (not only konsole, all windows have trouble resizing for me)

Cheers
/Mattias

[doktor5000]

Are you using compiz directly or KDE's desktop effects? Have you tried disabling those, does the problem stay the same?

EDIT: Sorry, overlooked that sentence in the middle. Yes, you should try with compiz disabled and report back here.

I've only heard of this problem related to some older nvidia drivers, recently they fixed those resizing problems with KDE
desktop effects in all of their driver series.

[mattetjus]

Compiz disabled (and no KD effects) does work (in the sense "not crashing by resizing"), however, the performance is so-so; very slow window redraws and the window deco blink on and off...

edit//addition

kde4-window-decorator or compiz-window-decorator makes no difference (are they even different window decorators?)

[mattetjus]

haven't tryed so hard, but i am still having this problem...
only thing that "helps" to change in the compiz settings is to uncheck the "scale windows" utility (eg. cant resize anything by accident)