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K'niyl

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 6

Cheese & Compiz conflicting ?

Hello,

I've recently installed Arch on a new laptop with integrated WebCam. In order to test its detection I installed cheese from the [extra] repository. All worked fine.

When I finished the installation (especialy after pacman -S compiz), I tried using cheese again. Unfortunately, the GUI closed before loading anything from the webcam. Launched from a terminal, cheese produces the following output :

The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error.  
This probably reflects a bug in the program.  
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.    
(Details: serial 63 error_code 11 request_code 132 minor_code 19)    
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;     
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.     
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line     
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful     
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

It appears that, if I disable Compiz, all work fine again under metacity.

Is there something to do or is it a know issue and the only way to fix it is not to use either cheese or compiz ?

ArchSoarer

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From: Cho-fu-sa

Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 23

Re: Cheese & Compiz conflicting ?

Well, I don't know how it was for you, but I'm having the same error without compiz (it's not even installed). It must be some lack of compatibility between packages, but I don't have any idea what packages.

After I installed gnome, gnome-extra groups and networkmanager gnome-network-manager and cheese (and all its dependencies), this was working perfectly. I thought that was it, but after installing openoffice, gimp, inkscape, gmusicbrowser, zsnes, etc. I didn't know what package conflicts.

Any ideas?

Last edited by ArchSoarer (2010-02-18 22:21:49)