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bdptcob

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Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 34

[Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

I've had compiz fusion running for awhile but I haven't use it due to short pauses/hesitations/freezes. It only lasts 1-5 seconds but often enough to make it too frustrating to use. I thought it might be due to me only having a 1g of memory but this theory was made invalid when I upgraded to 2g today. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? My laptop is a gateway mt6451 with 128mb for the video card. I'm also posting my xorg.conf. Thanks in advance.

Section "ServerLayout"                          
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"           
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0                
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"       
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"   
    Option        "AIGLX" "on"                  
EndSection                                      

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" 
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"            
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"          
EndSection                                         

Section "Module"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "glx"  
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dri"   
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"   
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "GLESX"   
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"                                                                                                                                            
    Option      "MaxTapTime" "0"                                                                                                                                                      
EndSection                                                                                                                                                                            

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
    Option        "BackingStore" "on"
    Option        "TexturedVideo" "on"
    Option        "VideoOverlay" "off"
    Option        "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option        "Textured2D" "on"
    Option        "TexturedXrender" "off"
    Option        "UseFastTLS" "1"
    Option        "DesktopSetup" "single"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "RENDER" "Enable"
    Option        "DAMAGE" "Enable"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by bdptcob (2008-10-12 04:19:42)

neowolf

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 105

Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Problem in the most recent driver, searching the forums several times got me the fix. Add "nopat" to your kernel call in grub. For example...

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/58b9fc6a-2e07-4870-b5aa-48da4864b976 ro nopat
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

bdptcob

Member

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Problem in the most recent driver, searching the forums several times got me the fix. Add "nopat" to your kernel call in grub. For example...

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/58b9fc6a-2e07-4870-b5aa-48da4864b976 ro nopat
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

Yep, seems to have done the trick. Thank you very much.

fr3d0

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Just wanted to add confirmation that this fix resolved the skipping and pauses with compiz fusion and my "ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]" on an Acer 5050 with proprietary catalyst drivers.  Thanks for the fix, I wasnt able to pin it down using google.

Rydgel

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From: France

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 166

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Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Thank you guys, works too with my ATI 200M.

aneiser

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 59

Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Yep, seems to have done the trick. Thank you very much.

Would you please mark the thread as [SOLVED], that helps other people to find useful threads for them.
Thanks!

synorgy

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From: $HOME

Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 272

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Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Wow - this fixed a problem I've had since about August. Thanks!

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flako

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 56

Re: [Solved] Compiz Fusion, Ati and pauses

Nice, this fixed my problems too, ATI X1950XT here.