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gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

Hello everyone,

yesterday I started my Arch adventure. I managed to configure pretty much everything so far.
-I got wireless working without ever connecting a network cable
-I got gnome working
-I got sound working
-I got the flashplayer
So I was really happy with arch so far, it takes some getting used to but I guess that when I get it running as I want I will be done for a while .

But I really like compiz for desktop effects and I can`t seem to get it working.
I tried to follow the wiki but installing catalyst didn`t go to well.

sudo pacman -S catalyst
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: catalyst-utils conflicts with libgl. Remove libgl? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: madwifi: requires kernel26<2.6.26

I tried to force install it. But that doesn`t solve it either. It will install catalyst but not catalyst utils.
I was wondering what the madwfi had to do with it?

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

I suppose madwifi indirectly depends on libgl.
Catalyst-utils provides libgl for ATI drivers. The following should do the trick for now

pacman -Rfd libgl
pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils

gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

Thanks for the quick responce.
Well that takes care of one of the errors .
However, the madwifi error still appears:

sudo pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: madwifi: requires kernel26<2.6.26

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

first update your system with

pacman -Syu

gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

After downloading a lot. I get a new error.

kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.alias exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.ccwmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.dep exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.ieee1394map exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.inputmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.isapnpmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.ofmap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.pcimap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.seriomap exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.symbols exists in filesystem
kernel26: /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.usbmap exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Does this have anything to do with that?

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

something weird is going on here...did you by any means install a custom kernel or so? Can you check which package owns those files with

pacman -Qo /path/to/file

gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

To make it even weirder..

sudo pacman -Qo /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.dep
error: No package owns /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.dep

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Getting composite/compiz working on thinkpad T60P

something most have gone wrong somewhere in your installation I suppose.

can you try this

pacman -Syfd kernel26
pacman -Su

that will force the kernel upgrade (which overwrites those files, the files should belong to that package), after which it upgrades your system (if no other error pops up)