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#1 2010-07-31 06:05:37

FathisAeril
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Registered: 2010-07-02
Posts: 82

Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

Its late, im tired, im cutting to the point smile

Gnome is the Desktop Environment, I've got catalyst installed and running perfectly, direct rendering is reporting its working fine. I went to install compiz-fusion, its installed fine. Did compiz-check, and it says:


Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Arch Linux 
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
 Driver in use:         fglrx
 Rendering method:      None

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

 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)


My xorg conf:  (its a standard xorg conf that was done with Xorg -configure, and then later aticonfig --initial. Thats it, no custom edits except for resolution)



Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    #DisplaySize      340   270    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "CMO"
    ModelName    "CMC 17"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"                # [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"          # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"                # <i>
        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AGPSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"             # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FBTexPercent"           # <i>
        #Option     "DepthBits"              # <i>
        #Option     "PCIAPERSize"            # <i>
        #Option     "AccelDFS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CustomEDID"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"        # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"       # <freq>
        #Option     "ColorTiling"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"              # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
        #Option     "ScalerWidth"            # <i>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "ClockGating"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"            # <str>
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectorTable"         # <str>
        #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceTVOut"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVStandard"             # <str>
        #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTVDACAdj"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Int10"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EXAVSync"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ATOMTVOut"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "R4xxATOM"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceLowPowerMode"      # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicPM"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NewPLL"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZaphodHeads"            # <str>
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon HD 3200 Graphics"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


not sure what else I could post, I was under the understanding that fglrx/catalyst enabled compositing and composite effects by default, so I can't figure out why the rendering is failing.

Thanks in advance guys, you've all be extremely helpful in the past.


Edit: Under Device, past the long list of commented lines. Theres a line that says to load the radeon driver? o.0 wtf?

Last edited by FathisAeril (2010-07-31 06:10:41)

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#2 2010-07-31 07:55:39

ChemBro
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Registered: 2008-10-22
Posts: 703

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

There are two lines. One with ""radeon", one with "fglrx". Obviously, you have to "out comment" (is that the right word?) the line with "radeon".

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#3 2010-07-31 13:56:22

schen
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Registered: 2009-06-06
Posts: 468

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

ChemBro wrote:

There are two lines. One with ""radeon", one with "fglrx". Obviously, you have to "out comment" (is that the right word?) the line with "radeon".

Lol, its "comment out"

Back on topic, try following instructions from this wiki article:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Composite

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#4 2010-07-31 17:49:59

FathisAeril
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Registered: 2010-07-02
Posts: 82

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

Thanks for the input Chem, I did comment it out, but that made zero difference. I ran glxgears just to see (out of curiousity) if there was a diff, and I got about the same markers are always.So Im thinking it was just ignoring that Driver "radeon" line.

Schen, I've already been through that wiki. And it says, and I quote

fglrx/Catalyst driver

ATI's proprietary fglrx driver enables compositing by default. If for some reason you would like to manually disable compositing, you can do so by adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

So we're still back to my original question -- why is catalyst not rendering? Is it a xorg.conf issue? Bug in catalyst? Missing package?

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#5 2010-08-01 06:25:19

FathisAeril
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Registered: 2010-07-02
Posts: 82

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

minibump

Edit: remade my xorg.conf, humoring schen by attempting to enable AIGLX as it described for the open source drivers, compiz-check still says its failing on AIGLX, and XGL.

My new xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
    Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group 0
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Last edited by FathisAeril (2010-08-01 06:45:59)

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#6 2010-08-02 05:11:33

FathisAeril
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Registered: 2010-07-02
Posts: 82

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

bumpity bump bump, bump bump

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#7 2010-08-02 06:19:21

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Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

FathisAeril wrote:

bumpity bump bump, bump bump

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … te#Bumping

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#8 2010-08-25 17:50:26

scenox
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Registered: 2010-07-19
Posts: 63

Re: Catalyst + Compiz = fail?

compiz-check is at the moment unmaintained and out-of-date, it shows partly wrong results (e.g. rendering is fine for me, but fails in the check).

try to start compiz, enable window decoration and other essential features in ccsm and see what happens.

Last edited by scenox (2010-08-25 17:51:17)

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