John Martin wrote:
> Trygve Laugst?l wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I just LiveUpgraded to b87 was hoping to get Compiz running. I went
>> through preferences -> appearance preferences -> visual effects and
>> found that it couldn't enable visual effect because "Composite
>> extension enabled". This was a bit surprising as I get this in the
>> Xorg logs:
>>
>> (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled
>>
>>
> I just tried this on a b87 system with FX 3500 and compiz worked. The only
> difference is my system was a full install and yours was a LU.
>
> Just for grins, try renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf to disable it, restart
> the desktop
> and then try starting compiz.
Ok, that certainly helped, it's working now. I tried a few different
options and played around a bit and it looks pretty nice. However, I had
to disable Xinerama which is a bit of a PITA as I now have two desktops
without the ability to move windows from one to another. Is there any
way to get that feature back?
Another question or note. It seems like all the window decorations of my
windows are gone. I also got a core file in ~ with this backtrace:
[13:12:50][trygvis at telestes:~]$ file core
core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from 'gdb'
[13:12:52][trygvis at telestes:~]$ gdb `which gdb` core
GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-11-23-cvs
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.11"...(no debugging symbols
found)
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gdb --batch --quiet
--command=/usr/share/bug-buddy/gdb-cmd /usr/bin/gt'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libcurses.so.1...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcurses.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libsocket.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libthread_db.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libthread_db.so.1
#0 0x0815b8da in dwarf2_read_section ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x0815b8da in dwarf2_read_section ()
#1 0x08154afc in dwarf2_build_psymtabs ()
#2 0x08154e55 in dwarf2_build_psymtabs ()
#3 0x081548af in dwarf2_build_psymtabs ()
#4 0x08150691 in read_pe_exported_syms ()
#5 0x08117c65 in syms_from_objfile ()
#6 0x08117e77 in new_symfile_objfile ()
#7 0x08118032 in symbol_file_add_from_bfd ()
#8 0x0811805b in symbol_file_add ()
#9 0x080bc92b in master_so_list ()
#10 0x08328f78 in ?? ()
#11 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#12 0x08834318 in ?? ()
#13 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000008 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#17 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#19 0x08046848 in ?? ()
#20 0x080af264 in catch_exceptions_with_msg ()
#21 0x080af264 in catch_exceptions_with_msg ()
#22 0x080af0d9 in throw_exception ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#23 0x080af2a8 in catch_errors ()
#24 0x080bcbe6 in solib_add ()
#25 0x080e3094 in mi_valid_noargs ()
#26 0x080a9fb6 in find_default_attach ()
#27 0x08122467 in attach_command ()
#28 0x080af2cf in catch_errors ()
#29 0x080af264 in catch_exceptions_with_msg ()
#30 0x080af0d9 in throw_exception ()
#31 0x080af2a8 in catch_errors ()
#32 0x080af319 in catch_command_errors ()
#33 0x080a7cd7 in main ()
(gdb)
The graphical performance was also 10x what I had before. I was going to
write another email asking about that but it seems to be related to me
disabling Xinerama. Previously opening a new folder in Thunderbird could
take 2-3 seconds and changing a tab in Opera up to 5 seconds with a tab
showing a news page.
> Also, can you compile the following code and let me know the result?
Format 0x80cfd90
details: red shift 0x10, mask 0xff
green shift 0x8, mask 0xff
blue shift 0x0, mask 0xff
alpha shift 0x18, mask 0xff
Found suitable RENDER visual 0xa6(166)
Format 0x80cfd90
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Trygve
