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3.4 on Dell X300 laptop = Compiz issues

Postby RandallRaines » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:23

Hello.

I'm new to sabayon and i'm experiencing some weird problems.

With the live dvd, everything works fine. Compiz works, my screen is at the correct resolution (1024x768).

So i installed it (very ultra long install on my laptop btw lol), and now, compiz doesn't work and my screen is using a weird resolution (1152x768).

I check in the screen resolution menu, i can't even select 1024x768, it doesn't show.
I tried to choose 800x600, the screen stays black :(

Any help/advices please ? I've search around but i couldn't find anything :(
My video chipset is Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
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Postby wolfden » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:29

reboot the livedvd back up and copy the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your hard drive install
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Postby RandallRaines » Thu Jul 26, 2007 17:32

Well i wanted to try your method, but ran into a lot of trouble...

First, my keyboard doesn't work with the live dvd...

Second, it's slow... very slow and somehow i can't click on anything beside the icons on the desktop

Third, although compiz works with the live dvd, the screen resolution bug is still there, 1152x768 and no 1024x768 in the display menu :(

Any other idea ?

I installed by using the menu option "graphic install", not booting under kde then start the install, could it be the reason of my issues ?

Thx
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Postby Dark_MaGe » Thu Jul 26, 2007 17:35

when you boot live press f5 and add res=1024x768
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Postby RandallRaines » Thu Jul 26, 2007 18:19

Ok i succesfully copied the xorg.conf from the live dvd to my install partition.
Now compiz works but there's a lot of error when it loads.
Also, i can't find the option to not have the cube transparent.

I still have the screen resolution issue. I try messing with xorg.conf, removing every other choices and leaving only 1024x768, didn't work :(
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Postby edgevision » Thu Jul 26, 2007 18:29

Could you please post your current xorg.conf file?
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Postby RandallRaines » Thu Jul 26, 2007 18:41

Here it is.

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Section "Files"


    #FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify
# which run-time loadable modules to load when the X server starts up.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Module"

    Load   "dbe"
    Load   "i2c"
    Load   "glx"
    Load   "ddc"
    Load   "type1"
    Load   "freetype"
    Load   "extmod"
    Load   "synaptics"
    Load   "vbe"
   Load        "dri"

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.  This contains various server-wide Options.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"

     Option    "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier      "Synaptics1"
    Driver      "synaptics"
    Option      "SendCoreEvents"   "true"
    Option      "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
    Option      "HorizScrollDelta"   "0"
    Option      "SHMConfig"      "on"
    # For ALPS/MacBook TouchPads
    #Option      "MaxSpeed"      "0.7"
    #Option      "MinSpeed"      "0.18"
    #Option      "AccelFactor"      "0.08"
    #Option      "TopEdge"      "120"
    #Option      "LeftEdge"      "120"
    #Option      "BottomEdge"      "830"
    #Option      "RightEdge"      "650"
    #Option      "FingerLow"      "25"
    #Option      "FingerHigh"      "30"
    # MacBook touchpad
    #Option      "MaxTapTime"      "180"
    #Option      "MaxTapMove"      "220"
    #Option      "MaxDoubleTapTime"   "180"
    #Option      "VertScrollDelta"   "20"
    #Option      "HorizScrollDelta"   "50"
    #Option      "TapButton2"      "3"
    #Option      "TapButton3"      "2"
    #Option      "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"

    # Do you keep moving the mouse while typing? Try this trick.
    #synclient TouchpadOff=1 disable your synaptics touchpad
    #synclient TouchpadOff=0 enable your synaptics touchpad
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier   "Keyboard1"
    Driver   "kbd"
   
    Option   "AutoRepeat"   "500 5"
    Option      "XkbModel"      "pc105"
    Option   "XkbLayout"   "fr"
    Option      "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    # Macintosh keyboard
    #Option   "XkbOptions"   "lv3:rwin_switch"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom1"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom2"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "wacom3"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier   "Mouse1"
    Driver   "mouse"

    Option   "Device"   "/dev/psaux"
    Option   "Protocol"   "ImPS/2"
    Option   "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
     
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Mouse2"
    Driver   "mouse"
    Option   "Protocol"   "ImPS/2"
    Option   "Device"   "/dev/input/mice"
    Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier   "Generic Monitor"
    #Option      "DPMS"

    VertRefresh 43 - 60
    HorizSync   28 - 80
   
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA"
    Driver      "i810" # do not remove vesa
    #Option "RenderAccel" "on"
    Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "BusType" "PCI"
    #Option "ColorTiling" "on"
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Screen"

# The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present

    Identifier   "Screen 1"
    Device   "VESA"
    Monitor   "Generic Monitor"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

# The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection


EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present

    Identifier   "Main Layout"
    Screen 0    "Screen 1"
    InputDevice   "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice   "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Synaptics1" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom1" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom2" "SendCoreEvents"
    #InputDevice "wacom3" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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Postby Dark_MaGe » Thu Jul 26, 2007 18:57

Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA"
Driver "i810" # do not remove vesa
#Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "BusType" "PCI"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
in this section add Option "NoDDC" "Enabled"
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Postby edgevision » Thu Jul 26, 2007 19:01

RandallRaines wrote:
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    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection



Remove the #'s from the Modes lines in this section. You're cancelling them out by keeping them there. Then save, restart X, and tell us what happened.
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Postby RandallRaines » Thu Jul 26, 2007 19:08

Dark_MaGe wrote:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA"
Driver "i810" # do not remove vesa
#Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "BusType" "PCI"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"

in this section add Option "NoDDC" "Enabled"


Should I remove the # in front of Option "RenderAccel" "on" also ? Maybe that why compiz while work but with a lot of error and a lot of options missing...
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