pwanchope

I've since had a quick go with compiz 0.9 using GLES. The internet had led me to believe that this wouldn't work. In fact it works better than compiz 0.8...

Compiz 0.9 compiled with open gl (GLES turned off) works even better. The black rendering of menus is completely gone. Still being thrown out of X or locking up fairly...

I have seen memory allocation messages before, but testing 0.8 today I had the desktop lock up twice without them. I'm hoping to get a rpi 3 to do further...

Booting with cma=128M@128M (no idea what this really means) Compiz 0.8 exited unexpectedly (fallback to other window manager). dmesg output: [ 733.274087] vc4-drm soc:gpu: failed to allocate buffer with size...

@indiandragon sounds to me like the vc4 driver is not being used. Have you got the necessary bits in config.txt? Or maybe the system is still trying to use xserver-xorg-video-fbturbo...

compiz 0.8 definitely works better at lower resolutions. At high resolutions window movement is not smooth although cpu usage is very low for me. Whereas compiz 0.9 and kwin are...