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Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Compiz Fusion Choppy

I have gnome and compiz fusion installed, and animations tend to be choppy.  On the same computer using Linux Mint animations are much smoother.  Obviously the computer is not slow, so there is just some special configuration I might need to do?

Please advise.

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

you probably need to enable DRI.. you have any xorg.conf? what is the output of glxinfo | grep direct ? What graphics card do you have?

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

It's a crap shoot here with the first system in my sig. Note that it works fine with my laptop (second machine).

Could you give some specs for your system? If you're using an nvidia card, you should install the non-open nvidia drivers from the repo. If ATI, probably the same, but I don't have one so I can't help there.

Also, are you using compiz-fusion from GIT or the latest release. I had issues with the release version that were fixed in the latest GIT version.

Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

you probably need to enable DRI.. you have any xorg.conf? what is the output of glxinfo | grep direct ? What graphics card do you have?

Here's the output:

direct rendering: Yes

It's a crap shoot here with the first system in my sig. Note that it works fine with my laptop (second machine).

Could you give some specs for your system? If you're using an nvidia card, you should install the non-open nvidia drivers from the repo. If ATI, probably the same, but I don't have one so I can't help there.

Also, are you using compiz-fusion from GIT or the latest release. I had issues with the release version that were fixed in the latest GIT version.

Nice desktop iBertus, here's mine:

Asus P5N-E SLI 650i motherboard
nVidia 8800GT 512mb
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 @ 2.8ghz
4gb DDR2-800 5-5-5-12-2T
Sceptre 22" 1680x1050

I'm using the nVidia 169.12 drivers from the repo.  How can I check which version of Compiz I have?

Yesterday I was playing around with it and I tried a different theme and the stuttering isn't as noticeable anymore.  It's still there tho.

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-11 16:32:41)

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I'm using the nVidia 169.12 drivers from the repo.  How can I check which version of Compiz I have?

I would just check my packages with 'pacman -Q' and see if you have the compiz-fusion-git installed or just compiz-fusion. It should tell you the package version also when you do that.

Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

Here are the compiz packages I have:

compiz-bcop 0.7.2-1
compiz-core 0.7.2-1
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.7.2-1
compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.7.2-1
compizconfig-backend-gconf 0.7.2-1
compizconfig-backend-kconfig 0.7.2-1
compizconfig-python 0.7.2-1

How do I install git?

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-11 19:41:30)

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

Someone on the forums had posted a compiz-fusion repo that had both stable and git versions. You should search the forums for that thread and add the repo to /etc/pacman.conf. Then you can pacman -Sy compiz-fusion-git to install.

Gauvenator

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Registered: 2008-04-03

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I added the repo, but when I go to install it it wants to remove compiz-core, but won't because other programs are dependent on it.  I'll go through and remove those, but first, I'm curious, what's different about compiz-fusion-git?

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

The GIT version is the latest source tree for compiz-fusion. That makes it much newer than stable versions, typically. Oh, and you can use the -Rd pacman switch to remove packages regardless of deps.

Gauvenator

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

Will the dependencies be satisfied by compiz-git most likely?

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-12 02:07:32)

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I would that most packages that depend on compiz would be replaced with -git versions. For example, emerald would be replaced by emerald-git and so forth. The two groups should conflict if the PKGBUILDs were done correctly.

Gauvenator

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I've now installed compiz-git, and it seems about the same.

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-12 04:07:55)

Perry3D

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Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 553

Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

How do you start compiz? Try the --loose-binding option. On my nvidia-card that option doubles the framerate.

There are some tweaks for the xorg.conf: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Hardware/ … 8d4d6cd6ed

Compiz has a problem with the 8xxx generation. The reasen is a power save mode: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=101161

Gauvenator

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I don't think it's the powersaver thing, unless it is more exaggerated on lower end cards.  Compiz is definitely usable for me, just not silky smooth.

I'll check out that loose-binding option, and if that doesn't do the trick some of those xorg tweaks.  Thanks.

Gauvenator

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Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

Loose binding helped some.  Maybe I'm just being too finicky.  I'll upload a video so you all can see maybe....what program should I use to take it?

Perry3D

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Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 553

Re: Compiz Fusion Choppy

I saw compiz on nearly the same machine like yours. Also a 8800GT - also very choppy. Read the thread in the nvnews forum. There are people with a 8800GTX, who have this problem.
I think the problem is the power save mode.

But tell me, if it is another problem.