Quoting Bjarne Thomsen <bjarne.thomsen@(protected)>:


>>  If you can't live without compiz or kde 4's new kwin effects,
>> then you are in trouble :-) Is this script packaged by mandriva?
>> Otherwise I suggest reporting upstream/the script author. If
>> you can post it, or a link to it, I can also try to make a patch.
> I am using a python pipeline to reduce astronomical spectra.
> That pipeline in turn uses a python frontend, PyRAF (developed at the
> Space Telescope Science Institute) to the Image Reduction and
> Analysis Facility (IRAF) developed 25 years ago at the National
> Optical Astronomy Observatory (much used by astronomers).
> 3D effects are not really used for that work, so the code is
> probably best left unchanged.

GLX should still work correctly. Basically you only miss the
Composite extension, that makes all windows contents a texture.

Since it still fails when using depth 24 by default, it is
probably a problem that I am not aware of... You can try to
run xwininfo and click on it's windows. If it is using a different
depth than the root window, you probably will also want to change
the default depth in xorg.conf to that depth, as basically all
drivers will not accellerate windows with different depths, and
may fallback to software accel to all windows.

> My biggest problem was to try to understand the error message,
> especially since it worked on Mandriva 2007.1.
>
> -- Bjarne

Paulo