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STKD
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:05 pm 
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See, I learned something there! ;) I did indeed assume that was only relevant to PCI cards.
Thank you very much for taking the time to help with this, and for the explanation because it'll help me in the future to remember that no doubt. I blitzed through the rest of the tutorial after getting that sorted and had absolutely no issues getting Compiz working.
I've been wanting to try this with the EFIKA since I first saw the pictures you took with it running. Thank you for writing such a nice little tutorial on it! :)
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Chain-Q
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See, I learned something there! ;) I did indeed assume that was only relevant to PCI cards.
Well, funnily enough, it's only relevant to AGP cards. Because in most cases PCI cards are detected correctly as PCI ones, so they don't need to be forced to PCI mode with that option... :)
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Thank you for writing such a nice little tutorial on it! :)
I'm glad that you found it useful. :)
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lugduweb
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:49 am 
I followed the tutorial, step by step and everything worked on the first trial.
Well done !

Too bad it's quite slow :-(
Now I must find a tutorial to configure all the compiz effects (on Ubuntu/x86/gnome I remember having a gfx interface for this...).

Missing notes in the tutorial:
The .cache dir is in your home directory. For example in /home/tux if your username is "tux".
To clean the /home/tux/.cache, you must exit from xfce:

- Log out from your session
- Kill X :
Go to the console CTRL+ALT+F1 (This can be done while your are in the gdm coneexion window by opering a text terminal : CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to X ).
Then, do a
Code:
ps -edf|grep gdm
and kill all gdm processes and X server.
- Search and remove the .cache dirs (with X shuted down):
Remove /home/tux directory (if your username is "tux"):
Code:
rm -f /home/tux/.cache
Remove root cache dir :
Code:
rm -f /root/.cache
- Restart X :
Code:
startx

- It works !


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Chain-Q
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Missing note in the tutorial :
To clean the /home/yourusername/.cache, you must exit from xfce
Which is not missing. The tutorial says this:
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After this, log out, log in into a non-X console, and delete your .cache directory, where xfce4 keeps some session-specific variables cached.
Maybe it's not too clear, and not too specific about how you should do that, but it definitely mentions the fact. On the other hand, thank you for the additional notes tho', as they're helpful :)
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lugduweb
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:27 am 
That was clear for me, but somebody asked me explanation about that point ;-)
Anyway, it's a good tutorial. It worked fine for me :-)
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Chain-Q
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That was clear for me, but somebody asked me explanation about that point ;-)
Ah, right. BTW, i think it's a better habit to restart X with command:
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/etc/init.d/gdm start
than to start it with startx, as user, as your notes say. But i admit that this is really only nitpicking. :)
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bbrv
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In any case, thanks for posting this Karoly! 8)

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MacMiga
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:49 pm 
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I have used Beryl on Mac PPC and x86 before and really prefer it to the old version of Compiz as it has a manager icon for the system tray (beryl-manager), and a theme manager (emerald) for applying different themes. Wioth DRI and Compositing enabled for Compiz I decided to take a shot at Beryl, and (no real surprises) it works great!

I'm using a fresh install of Xubuntu Feisty and the window acceleration is damn fast for such a modest machine, although mine dies have a GeCube Radeon 9250/128MB AGP card. I didn't get this good performance from a 1GHz PIII with a Radeon 9200 PCI card!! I suspect the Ubuntu radeon drivers for Xorg are significantly better performance. It certainly bodes well for when Ubuntu 'gutsy' is done for the EFIKA.

The only thing that takes a lot of time is enabling and disabling the various features in Beryl, due to the CPU and I/O tax.

Compiz Fusion is effectively a better version of Beryl (it's a merger of the two older engines) - I need to figure out if it's available on PPC yet and get that working too.

Beryl screenshots to follow :)

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eliot
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:10 pm 
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Ok,

ie got the same prpblem, direct rendering does not work.
Here is my xorg.config:
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Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
# Load "int10"
# Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:lwin_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standardgrafikkarte"
# Driver "fbdev"
Option "BusType" "PCI"
Driver "radeon"
# BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
# Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Standardbildschirm"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-100
VertRefresh 70-75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Standardgrafikkarte"
Monitor "Standardbildschirm"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
It's looking good, but no direct rendering :(
I am using a Radeon 9250 fromClub3D

regards

eliot
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SoundSquare
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i could never make direct rendering work on ubuntu with my club3D radeon 9250 but it worked nice on Debian :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXioGhnbmi8
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eliot
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i could never make direct rendering work on ubuntu with my club3D radeon 9250 but it worked nice on Debian :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXioGhnbmi8
Fine, but i am using Debian?!

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eliot
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Chain-Q
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ie got the same prpblem, direct rendering does not work. Here is my xorg.config: *snipp* It's looking good, but no direct rendering :(
Your Xorg.0.log file should give some more clues. Examine the output of the following command, to see if there are any errors reported:
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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -B5 -A5 "^(EE)"
You can even paste that output here, if you need further help.
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eliot
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Hello,

thank you you for helping.
It was really simple:

I forgot to install the package "libgl1-mesa-dri",
so the r200_drv.so was missing.

Now everything is fine!

regards

André
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