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My laptop, Elyssa & Compiz......

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:19 pm
by ElEdwards
My laptop is a Compaq Presario 2170us and with the latest Xorg, I can't get Compiz to run. I was successful in doing this in Fiesty but not in Hardy or Elyssa.

I'm using (and loving) Elyssa and if Compiz won't work, then it is what it is ;)

When I run compiz-check in Terminal, I get this:

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elwood@laptop ~ $ compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Linux Mint 
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M
 Driver in use:         radeon
 Rendering method:      AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

 Checking for texture_from_pixmap...               [ OK ]
 Checking for non power of two support...          [ OK ]
 Checking for composite extension...               [ OK ]
 Checking for FBConfig...                          [ OK ]
 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [ OK ]

elwood@laptop ~ $ 
....so it seems that it CAN run but since xorg.conf now indicates:

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection
instead of all the entries that were in the same section back in Fiesty, I don't know what to do about it.

I added:

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Section "Extensions"
	Option		"Composite"	"Enable"
EndSection
to the end of xorg.conf but that hasn't made any difference.

Thoughts? Thanks :)
El

Re: My laptop, Elyssa & Compiz......

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:47 am
by Husse
There is a new X in Elyssa/Hardy with much less in xorg.conf
But here

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    Section "Device"
       Identifier   "Configured Video Device"
    EndSection
the driver is missing - there should be something like

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Driver		"radeon"
This is a rather old video chip so you may be unable to use the ATI driver
Start EnvyNG and let it have a go - it will probably tell you that you need some legacy driver which it can install

Re: My laptop, Elyssa & Compiz......

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:04 pm
by ElEdwards
I ran EnvyBG. The automatic mode failed, so I ran it manually. After a lot of activity, the resulting xorg.conf entries were things I've never seen before :)

After rebooting, the display wanted to keep running in 640x480. I played with it some, the restored xorg.conf from a backup so I could get back to 1024x768.

I can't think of anything else to try.

El

Re: My laptop, Elyssa & Compiz......

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:58 am
by Husse
I can't think of anything else to try.
I'm sorry to say neither can I
X is different in Elyssa/Hardy than earlier versions and obviously this was "no good" for your card