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linux_stu

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From: West Lafayette, Indiana

Registered: 2007-08-10

Posts: 4

fglrx (ATI Mobility Radeon x1400) + xgl + compiz

This combination is enough to give me a headache.  My graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400. Currently I have been able to successfully configure fglrx and obtain support for direct rendering.  Then when i follow the steps here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl to install Xgl, and here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl … M_uses_XGL to configure KDE + Xgl, everything gets messed up.  Whenever I enter X, the screen is rather garbled.  There are strange shapes and distorting lines that make the computer nearly unusable.  Here is a picture for your viewing pleasure http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/ … pshot2.png.

I don't know whether this is a problem with my xorg.conf, how I installed things, or something else altogether.  If anyone has found success with fglrx, Xgl, and compiz with a graphics card similar to mine, I would greatly appreciate help.

Btw, here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

#    RgbPath    "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
#    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.
#    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"

#       Load       "xtt"
#       Load       "glx"
        Load       "dri"
        Load  "dbe"      # Double buffer extension
    SubSection "extmod"
        Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
        Load       "freetype"
#       Load       "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"    # IntelliMouse PS/2
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

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

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Last edited by linux_stu (2007-08-10 22:15:40)

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: fglrx (ATI Mobility Radeon x1400) + xgl + compiz

Any reason you have the Load "glx" line commented out?

Also, this (though it looks mighty hacky) might help if you're getting the error it says: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl … ryl_on_ATI

linux_stu

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From: West Lafayette, Indiana

Registered: 2007-08-10

Posts: 4

Re: fglrx (ATI Mobility Radeon x1400) + xgl + compiz

Maybe I've made some progress somehow, I don't know.  I uncommented glx as you said, and followed the hacky guide.  When I try to do the following from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz#KDE:

 compiz --replace gconf & kde-window-decorator &

The error I get is

compiz: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0
compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
kde-window-decorator: Could not acquire decoration manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"

I googled that error and got a few bugzillas and a few forum threads with no solutions.  Hopefully this will lead me to neither of those...

Last edited by linux_stu (2007-08-11 01:44:09)

Laplace's Daemon

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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 30

Re: fglrx (ATI Mobility Radeon x1400) + xgl + compiz

Sorry for the (very) belated responce, but I've been dealing with the same issue on this computer.  I think I found a solution, which is given in the last post of this old thread about Beryl.  The one that killed it for me was disabling "Show Icons on Desktop" in the "Configure Desktop" option in the right click menu.

Hope it works for you.