Congrats, Hope my blog was some kind of help.
Sorry about the single -, wordpress for somereason does that, maybe I should update the blogs, I will also update to include the new repository (I now use the SUSE XORG:XGL one also. As for updating Xorg did you try updating to newer 7.2 packages? Or did you just go straight to 7.3? Again.. glad you got it working.. Compiz is pretty good.. Ben On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:00:54 am Art Fore wrote: > I got compiz-fusion running on both 10.3 and 10.2 X68-64 dual core and > without xgl. It was a 4 day battle, but I won in the end. Here is what > I did. > > 10.2 > I pretty much followed http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=66, which did not > work completely.. Then I changed the repository to > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/xorg73/openSUSE_10.2, upgraded > the compiz-fusion, xorg, & mesa rpms. (These had all been upgraded > before but the 7.3 repository had slightly later versions). The > copoy/paste of > #! /bin/sh > compiz –replace ccp & > emerald –replace ccp & > > from http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=65 > did not work right. Ended up I had to change the - to --. > > I also added the nvidia repository and had already installed the invidia > kernel drivers previously. > > 10.3 > > First, adding the 10.2 nvidia repository did not work. I would not > recognize the drivers as they were for the wrong version of kernel. I > downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run and ran it with > the -q option. The -q is a must. Ended up that I needed to do this again > after I updated xorg for some reason or another, so you might want to do > this last. > > Used the XGL:/X11 repositories first, the the xorg73 repositories. in > Yast. Most of the packages were not upgraded, even though they were in > the repositories. I ended up downloding those that did not upgrade and > installed them manually. If fact, I had to get the emerald-themes from > the suse 10.2 repositoy. > > Hopefully by the time 10.3 is released, this will all get straightened > out, otherwise, it is really a big hassle. > > As far as the nvidia-config line from > http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=65, again another copy paste error on > the -, but it still did not work. Unrecognized --compite etc. Ended up I > had to do each option individually, then it worked. my xorg config added > lines are as follows: > > Under screen > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen[0]" > Device "Device[0]" > Monitor "Monitor[0]" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" > Option "RenderAccel" "True" > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" > SubSection "Display" > > and at the end > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Enable" > EndSection > > Compiz is much faster and the compiz setting application is very nice. > Have to play around with all of the plug-ins and see what I really want > to use. > > Both CPUs are running 4 to 6 %. If I rotate the cube, etc., 1 cpu will > jump up to about 16% for only a short time while I am rotating the cube. > Now I will have to install this on my laptop at work where I have WinXP > running under parallels on Suse 10.2. Hopefully parallels will work with > it as I do max out the 2 cpus on it quite often with a simulation > program that only runs under winxp. > > Thanks to all that helped on the mail list. > > Art -- How much can you know about yourself, you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars. So come on; hit me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
