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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: [HOWTO] ATI Mobility Raedon + Compiz-Fusion + AIGLX |
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What I'm going show you is the correct modern way to get Compiz-Fusion working on a laptop with an ATI Mobility Raedon card. This has been tested namely on the x600 series but it should work for latest and greatest. But before I start I'm going go dispel all the xorg.conf myths. You don't need all those silly options. Keep it short and sweet like so:
| Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "ServerLayout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# fonts commented out as they are not relevant
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "HP"
ModelName "Oh who cares?"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection |
Like they say, K.I.S.S. The only thing you really need to add is the DRI section. AIGLX is enabled by default and all other options are obsolete or useless.
So what do else do you really *need*? Really, just get ati-drivers and compiz-fusion. The versions I used are
| Quote: | * x11-drivers/ati-drivers
Latest version available: 8.471.3
Latest version installed: 8.471.3
Size of files: 52,180 kB
Homepage: http://www.ati.com
Description: Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets
License: AMD GPL-2 QPL-1.0 as-is
* x11-wm/compiz-fusion
Latest version available: 0.7.4
Latest version installed: 0.7.4
Size of files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://compiz-fusion.org
Description: Compiz Fusion (meta)
License: GPL-2
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So do this:
| Code: | | emerge -va ati-drivers compiz-fusion |
Then do a:
| Code: | | sudo eselect opengl list |
If you see this:
| Quote: | Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] ati
[2] xorg-x11 * |
Do this:
| Code: | | sudo eselect opengl set 1 |
And this:
| Code: | | sudo modprobe fglrx |
Once inside Gnome (or whatever), open your terminal of choice. Punch in:
If you get this:
| Quote: | display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.7412 Release) |
do this too:
| Code: | | glxinfo | grep rend |
and if you get that as well:
| Quote: |
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 |
then do this:
| Code: | | env LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace ccp --sm-disable & emerald --replace & |
No magic, but there might be bugs. If you use Gnome, try opening an application such as Calculator. Is it greyed out? You need to either
do this (disable integration):
| Quote: | | System -> Preferences -> CompizConfig Settings Manager -> Preferences -> Backend -> Untick Enable integration* |
or this (switch backends):
| Quote: | | System -> Preferences -> CompizConfig Settings Manager -> Preferences -> Backend -> Select Flat-file* |
This bug also occurs with specific themes.
Anyway, you should be all set. Compiz might be a bit slow in some cases but hey, you have wobbly windows and that's all that matters eh? 
If it worked for you too, great. If it didn't, remember, this isn't a support forum (I might help you if you ask nicely in a pm, resulting correspondence will be added to this howto if needed).
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