Compiz Segmentation fault or white screen

qw1478 · 2010-08-21 04:41:17

Hey guys, new to Arch linux but let me say how great it is. I have a problem with compiz, I have searched the forums, no solutions working for me. I have Intel Intel® 82845G Chipset Graphics card. For this I have installed xf86-video-intel driver. I have no windows manager, when I try to run compiz as the wiki says, I either get the black terminal screen with "segmentation fault" or sometimes a white screen. I even tried creating an xorg.conf file from other users suggestions no help. By the way I am on LXDE. Please help thanks.

karol · 2010-08-21 04:56:16

You have a pretty old card that doesn't really work with xf86-video-intel driver. I will crash and burn and there's not much you can do about it, compiz or not.

cesura · 2010-08-21 05:08:45

Don't take this in a bad way, but you have a really old card that isn't capable of running Compiz (either at all, or at an extremely sluggish, unusable speed).

Even Dell has dropped support for it (in 2005!) :
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/i … 021350.htm

karol · 2010-08-21 05:12:17

I have this card but I've never tried to run compiz on it - I use dwm. If you have a 32-bit system, I can e-mail you an old xorg that won't crash and you can try to use it with compiz - but of course you need old mesa etc.

qw1478 · 2010-08-21 08:23:41

Thanks a lot guys for clearing this up. One more thing with this xf86-video-intel driver, youtube videos in full screen lag a lot. Is there an alternative driver for this graphics card, not for compiz, just in general for better performance.

karol · 2010-08-21 11:24:59

The correct driver is xf86-video-intel-legacy (but you won't find it in the repos, because it's not compatible with the current X server), with your current driver sooner or later your gpu will hang and you will be left w/o hardware acceleration. Flash on linux is generally very bad: slow, choppy, high cpu usage. Fullscreen flash is in many cases a joke. Without hardware acceleration you will be watching a slideshow, not a movie.

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Compiz Segmentation fault or white screen

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