Composite extension

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:09 pm

If I click desktop effect in Cassandra I get "composite extension is not available", now I'm guessing as I have an ATI card its been disabled in xorg.conf?

Should I manually change it?

Although, having a look at my xorg.conf reveals

//
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0"
EndSection
//

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:36 pm

Do you have the right driver - fglrx?
It can be installed with Envy, but according to some posts in the forum you may have to do it over and over again...

You could always try to change to "1" - if you know your way with a terminal as you may have to use rescue mode to change it back.....
Computers....
D1Wayne is right - there's some bug with vendor ID as well.... forgot about that, not so many questions about it yet but this may soon change

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:26 am

Husse wrote:Do you have the right driver - fglrx?

I think so - I used the restricted divers option to install - maybe I'll use Envy and try it again

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:32 am

D1Wayne wrote:post the driver and display section of the xorg.conf file we can see if there is a solution.

Funnily enough it is a Radeon 9550.
I'll have a little tinker this morning, and see if I can suss it.
If not I'll post my xorg.conf here a bit later.

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:07 am

Just tried desktop effects on my laptop which has shared graphics mem, seems to work ok.

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:01 am

D1Wayne wrote:I take it it has more than 256mb memory

Nope - its set to share a up to 128Mb from the 512 of main ram.

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:21 pm

256 is a bit low for Gnome I guess.

I have an old laptop with 256Mb, I was hoping to put Mint on that - but it doesn't have a CDROM anymore (broken).

I would have had the same issues with desktop effects with that too I reckon.

thedeerhunter270 · Post by **thedeerhunter270** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:38 pm

D1Wayne wrote:on the cheap get an external 5.25in external usb drive case slap in cdrw drive

I bought an external DVD writer partly for the purpose of booting my old laptop - it wouldn't have it unfortunately.

It will boot a USB stick - thats the way I got XP installed. So far Linux has beaten me as I can't boot a CD.

Having said that, I did get it to boot and install DSL via the USB stick - but I need something that I can wifi on that is easier to setup that DSL.