[LUNI] Trying to run Coetmpiz Fusion on Dell D600 with Kubuntu.

[Samir Faci]

I tend to have a sadistic annoying habit of installing the latest
bleeding edge software no matter how much pain it ends up causing me
in the long run (which some people claim is the reason I use gentoo).
The current release of compiz fusion works pretty nicely, the first
version I was running was crawling compared to beryl.

I do have Compiz-fusion running, latest svn release, but be careful,
it's not even beta yet, it's still an alpha release and most of the
devs don't recommend for the avg. end user to run it yet.  I'm not
familiar with the Ubuntu/Kubuntu setup, but most likely you'll have to
a compile from source.  I had issues having both Beryl + Compiz-fusion
installed concurrently.  Compiz uses a newer version of emerald that's
not compatible with beryl (emerald is the program you run that handles
the theme management and ends up drawing the borders on the windows as
well).

(in other words, beryl works fine, it's just all your windows don't
have borders.

I could help you more if you can tell me where you got stuck at.  I
presume you got your 3d Acceleration working and glxgears works fine
when you run it.  Are you using ubuntu repositories to install it, or
are you trying to do a source install?

--
Samir



On 7/12/07, Michael Salsman <msalsman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     I've been wrestling with running Compiz Fusion on a Dell D600.  To
> date, I have been successful with things like TrueType fonts, wireless
> with ndiswrapper, but setting up the merged Compiz/Beryl code has me
> stumped.
>
> In general, I am getting a white background, and the display seems to
> only use 2/rds of the display for the window manager, with the tops of
> the application windows being clipped.  The "cube" works, rotating the
> full display, but in all cases ... each virtual desktop exhibits the
> same symptoms.
>
> The physical display supports a 1400 x 1050 display resolution, with a
> "max texture size" of 2048 x 2048" from Kubuntu.
>
> The display chip appears to be an ATI Radeon 9000, and I've followed
> different instructions found by Googling .... but with no resulting
> change in behavior ...
>
> Has anyone successfully been able to get this particular configuration
> operational?
>
> Thanks for any and all advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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