[openbox] Video overlay / nvidia-drivers weirdness

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 23 April 2014 17:36,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> [14-04-23 04:35]:
>> On 19 April 2014 14:40,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> [14-04-19 14:32]:
>> >> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:44 AM, <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am runnig Gentoo Linux on a AMD64 machine using openbox
>> >> > as my preferred windowmanager.
>> >> >
>> >> > Recently with an update of the system beside other things
>> >> > the nvidia-drivers and the xorg-server were updated.
>> >> >
>> >> > Versions:
>> >> > (tried all of them)
>> >> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121
>> >> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12
>> >> > x11-wm/openbox-3.5.2-r1
>> >> > x11-wm/openbox-9999 (Gentoo nameing for "developper snapshot)
>> >> >
>> >> > Openbox is started via slim (login manager), which executes
>> >> > autostart.sh, which (beside other things) mutt in a urxvt
>> >> > terminal.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Do you run a compositor in your autostart like xcompmgr or anything like
>> >> that?
>> >>
>> >
>> > No...pure ol' openbox. The one. The only :)
>> > Before update this setup has worked for a looooong time...
>>
>> I had the same problem with the 334.21 drivers. However, it seems it's
>> not possible to use that driver with xorg 1.14 nor 325.15 with xorg
>> 1.15. I only had the problem with the xorg 1.15 + 334.21 combo. The
>> bug is either in xorg 1.15 or the nvidia driver.
>
> Why is all fine if replacing openbox with fluxbox?

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.15-branch&id=eec04d76a39a7334de4e00ef9f0f6e44c92b3d91
This commit looks suspiciously relevant. I haven't tried it yet, but
if you have time, please test xorg-server 1.15.1 and report back.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson