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flintmecha

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Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 41

4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

Basically I want to know if it is even possible to run compiz on my Thinkpad T400 with integrated Intel 4500MHD graphics.

First, here's what I get when I try to do compiz --replace:

[flint@arch ~]$ fusion-icon
 * Detected Session: gnome
 * Searching for installed applications...
 * Using the GTK Interface
 * Starting Compiz
 ... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp
compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Here's the relevant section of xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport  0 0
        Depth      24
        Modes     "1440x900"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

My first instinct was to add a "DefaultDepth" line to my Screen section with "DefaultDepth 24" but running X with that just gives me a messed up display and the only thing I can do is Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to quit and return to the CLI.

My second instinct was maybe that Compiz doesn't like vesa. So I tried using "intel" (xf86-video-intel). After changing xorg.conf to use the intel driver, I try starting X again.

The screen goes black for a couple seconds, then I am returned to the command prompt with some lovely error message:

(WW) intel: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Module "i2c" already built-in
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in

Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for exa offscreen

Any ideas? I want to run compiz, regardless of whether it's with vesa or intel, but I feel like I should be able to use the intel driver, and it bugs me that it gives me that error.

Slack

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From: Chile

Registered: 2008-10-27

Posts: 52

Re: 4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

I had a similar problem, but i had fixed installing compiz fusion (try it)

pacman -S compiz-fusion

also, i have a intel video card, so when i tried run compiz-fusion i had a low performance, i've fixed it with the two final steps of here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_GMA_950

hope it solves your problem (try compiz-fusion first)

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Excuse my poor english

flintmecha

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Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 41

Re: 4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

Thanks for the reply, but I've already got compiz-fusion installed. The problem is when I try to run it, I have no borders. I assume this has to do with the fact that I'm using the vesa driver instead of the intel driver, but I can't get the intel driver to work (I get the Xorg fatal server error about exa memory).

What I want is to either able to run compiz with vesa or get the intel driver to work.

Also my card is not a GMA 950.

Svlad Cjelli

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From: dusk till dawn

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 99

Re: 4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

There is a bug around there...

With the current intel-driver and the current Kernel X crashes...

So there are 2 ways 2 go:

Either you downgrade your Kernel (kernel26-2.6.27.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz or something) and use the current xf86-video-intel driver to get your system and compiz for work

or

you try to install the xf86-video-intel-driver from the testing repository.

vesa won't handle compiz-fusion...

googlah

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-11-21

Posts: 14

Re: 4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

That you don't have any borders is due to your CompizConfig Settings Manager setup. Look at "Window decorator", if you enable and disable it, they show up and goes away again. I also had the "Fatal: No GLXFBConfig" error, and I did something in my xorg.conf to make it to work. I'm on Nvidia. Hope you can get it to work though.

flintmecha

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Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 41

Re: 4500MHD - intel and compiz - Help!

I got it working by going to the latest [testing] xf86-video-intel driver. This also required me to grab the [testing] xorg-server, which in turn required me to get xf86-input-synaptics, as my touchpad stopped working. I am now having other issues, such as my top GNOME panel not stretching all the way across my screen and some keyboard shortcuts not acting correctly, but I am now able to use the intel driver and compiz is working!

I don't suppose anybody knows what to do about that panel issue..