No OpenGL acceleration = no Compiz Fusion!

[hecia13]

@GrantTLC - I had the same problem as you do. In desperation I switched to Beryl and it works all right. I don't know why Sabayon has problems with Compiz-Fusion, I used it on OpenSuse, and it worked perfectly (well, almost ). Perhaps it the fact that it's still in beta stage ...

[GrantTLC]

@Hecia13 - Glad to see it's not just me having this trouble! Beryl was running very well on 3.3, not perfectly, but well enough to amaze onlookers which was the main thing.

I'll keep at this for a day or two, I think, and see if we can't get a result, but if that fails then it may be back to Beryl. Failing that, I might consider trying to get a cheap nVidia card off eBay...they seem to have far fewer problems!


@edgevision - sorry for the delay, I'll post the required info later on tonight when I get back home.

[GrantTLC]

http://pastebin.com/m6e391b3c

Done.

[GrantTLC]

update

Following the advice in other threads on this forum, I've emerged the updated Desktop-Acceleration Helpers, and have repeated the steps suggested above. No joy.

What is odd, not sure if this means anything, is that every time I uncomment the line in Xorg.conf (remove the #, yes?), something changes it back! What's doing this?

[edgevision]

Are you sure you're editing it as root?

[GrantTLC]

Are you sure you're editing it as root?

Absolutely, and saving multiple times in each instance, just to be sure. I log in as root to do most of this stuff (Don't know how to edit the files from my User account).

[hecia13]

After two days of pains and hard work I finally managed to activate compiz on Sabayon... (don't ask me how, I just can't tell, I tried everything I came across on the web) It works fine except for two issues: it starts with two fusion icons (I don't want to start with an empty session, because then my Superkaramba does not load) and I can't start emerald - I have to use kde decorations. The good thing is that it is definitely faster than beryl.

[GrantTLC]

Congrats, man! Pity you can't share how you did it. Still, I shall persevere.

I actually removed Fusion last night and replaced it with Beryl which, as you said, worked fine from the very first. However, something during that process broke my Arts server so now my sound is borked.

Interesting to hear Fusion is faster though: performance improvements are exactly the incentives I need to keep me battering away at it!

I'm going to reinstall tonight, start from fresh. I've resisted the temptation to apply any settings beyond those I've needed so I'm losing nothing. With any luck the magical combination of code will miraculously sort itself in the process.

[tpcforever]

Congrats, man! Pity you can't share how you did it. Still, I shall persevere.

I actually removed Fusion last night and replaced it with Beryl which, as you said, worked fine from the very first. However, something during that process broke my Arts server so now my sound is borked.

Interesting to hear Fusion is faster though: performance improvements are exactly the incentives I need to keep me battering away at it!

I'm going to reinstall tonight, start from fresh. I've resisted the temptation to apply any settings beyond those I've needed so I'm losing nothing. With any luck the magical combination of code will miraculously sort itself in the process.

idem for me
If it's work with you fresh install, explain me please !!

[GrantTLC]

@tpcforever

Sorry, my friend. Fresh install, same old problems. Sigh. Although...this time around the Compiz Fusion Icon was in my system tray from the start. - that never happened last time!