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[01micko]

I should start another thread for the compiz biz.. I want to build a record of systems that are running it successfully, CPU, graphics card and driver, RAM etc. .. so until I do, can you post those specs.

[8-bit]

I have a 10 year old Toshiba Satellite Laptop 1.8ghz 512megs ram Slacko loading from USB flash drive.

I just installed Compiz on it and it is very speedy with good graphics and no flashing or studder.
So that is getting down toward the low end of the scale as to computers.
I currently have Seamonkey, AbiWord, and a terminal open with free displaying memory usage as well as the boot desktop with rxvt.

My free on this PC, still speedy, is:

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 497644 480224 17420 0 32044
Swap: 1052376 3096 1049280
Total: 1550020 483320 1066700
#

Now that is pretty impressive.
I dare someone with Windows to show me any desktop graphic effects even close to being comparable.

It would come up with some lame graphics rating that would say I would have to upgrade my PC to some unreal specs.

[rhadon]

Well done Mick.

Works fine and fast on my EeePc900.
Even the camera in Skype works.

OK, some small issues, but not so important. The basics are working.

As I mentioned often during the years, if the Super key isn't working, use keyboard model pc-104 or 105 instead of pc-102 (could happen with non english keyboard layouts).

I tried to use simple-ccsm. Installed flawless witout missing dependencies, but fails to run. See attachment, please.

The mesa driver seems to be a little bit problematic for me (also without compiz).
Glxgears runs with ~300 fp5s and there seems to be a lot of sand between the gears. A little bit forward, a little bit backward, forward, backward... .

With xorg high in lupu-525 I get ~1500 fp5s.


On my Gericom laptop (see sig.) no go with Compiz.

Glxgears run with ~620 fp5s (gears turning fine).

With xorg high in lupu-525 I get ~3500 fp5s.

Attached output of compiz-check.

Any idea?

For my Eee it's like a christmas gift. Thank you.

Rolf

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Ran the Compiz Helper pet..
Failed 4 of 5...
And I am running Compiz...

[01micko]

Hi Rolf

Well 1 out of 2 isn't too bad.

I want you to try something with the Gericom. Copy your Lupu xorg.conf over Slacko's. Restart X. Try the test again. If the test passes then try compiz.

I will have to see if simple cssm works in my Slackware installation. I couldn't get it to work with (IIRC) similar errors to what you post in Slacko. I didn't bother chasing it too hard.

Good luck, and Merry Christmas.

[01micko]

WTF?

[Iguleder]

Re-uploading my repository, all packages were rebuilt with many fixes.

Here's the full list of changes:
- Added UnNetHack.
- Changed the default rxvt-unicode font to Terminus.
- Added Yad, with /opt/bin/zenity, a backwards-compatibility symlink for Zenity.
- Moved Terminus to /opt/share/fonts, this requires a change in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
- Fixed the missing menu icons problem with vitetris, bs, cmus and NetSurf.
- cmus no longer sets itself as the default audio player.
- Removed an unneeded icon from the wbar package.
- Prevented Moon-buggy from writing stuff to /opt/com.
- Removed the libelf dependency from GNU Screen.
- Added /opt/bin/rxvt, a symlink to urxvt.
- Added /opt/share man to the man pages search path, through man.conf.
- Removed the man pages for urxvtc and urxvtd.

[rhadon]

[8-bit]

I just wanted to mention that if one is running with the Compiz SFS file, a taskbar selection called "Close all open windows" can cause a lockup as it also closes the dummy xwin started using the terminal.
Is there a way around this one can try?

Is the openbox wm compiz compatable?

Have you started a Slacko Compiz thread yet?

Oh, Merry Xmas.

Figured that was appropriate for running xwin.

[CatDude]

Hi

Computer.


Make/Model: Acer 5552 (laptop)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II P340 Dual-Core Processor
Memory: 4GB
Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
Graphics driver: fglrx





Code:

# glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 16002 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3199.591 FPS 16895 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3376.747 FPS 16900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3379.946 FPS 16888 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3376.651 FPS 16900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3377.999 FPS 16435 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3285.071 FPS





Code:

# fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 2953 frames in 5.0 seconds = 590.600 FPS 3538 frames in 5.0 seconds = 707.600 FPS 3540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 708.000 FPS 3538 frames in 5.0 seconds = 707.600 FPS 3536 frames in 5.0 seconds = 707.200 FPS 3535 frames in 5.0 seconds = 707.000 FPS

Everything is wobbling along nicely.

CatDude
.

[8-bit]

I have began to have problems that may be attributed to the mouse.
Anyway, I had Slacko with Compiz running and went away from the computer.
When I returned to a black screen, the power save had kicked in, Slacko came back with the rxvt window that starts it in the middle of the screen and it then moved to its home position of the upper left of the screen.
Clicking on the menu button did not work although clicking on the terminal icon on the desktop did.
I went back and tried the menu button again and still no go.
So is it a problem of "If Compiz is already running" that the startup using rxvt is trying to run it again when exiting from the power screen saver?
I do not know and am just guessing here.

What window managers are compatible with Compiz?
I would like to try one of them other than dummy (no window manager) and xfce4.
Surely there is a nice window manager that would give me a desktop comparable to the default one that Slacko uses.

Also, maybe that is part of my problem in trying to run Slacko with no desktop manager.
In a case like that, what is being used for a desktop manager?
Is it Emerald?

I am open to trying a compatible desktop manager with compiz and short instructions on starting both compiz and a desktop manager without a lockup of one or the other.

So jump in with suggestions if you can.

[01micko]

[rhadon]

Hi Mick,

thanks for paying attention to my problem.

I changed modeset=0 to 1 but the same error message appears:

[01micko]

Compiz helper update .. scroll down VVVVVVV

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[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Sorry, slow reply...
Running Compiz 82 on Lupu 2.6.38.4..
Failed nearly every test, but works fine..
Have Cairo stuff too, maybe explains it???