I have just set up compiz on several machines with Nvidia graphics cards,
and it is cool.. Ok so it's kust eye candy, and a huge waste of CPU cycles
:-)

So, I have a laptop, and a number of Sun 2100's that have ATI cards for
graphics. Is there a way to run compiz on them? Here is the line out of
xorg.conf for one of the 2100's:

Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"

and it is presently using the "ati" driver.

Can I do this? if so how?

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Am Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:11:22 -0500
schrieb stan <stanb@panix.com>:

> So, I have a laptop, and a number of Sun 2100's that have ATI cards
> for graphics. Is there a way to run compiz on them? Here is the line
> out of xorg.conf for one of the 2100's:
>
> Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
>
> and it is presently using the "ati" driver.


Well... not having tried it, I want to keep myself from stating that
it's impossible. However given it's really a Rage XL, I think chances
to get this done are rather bad - used to own one of these cards ages
ago, AGP2x, 8 megs of graphics RAM, no real 3D acceleration, wonky
drivers. If these display adapters really are what xorg.conf say, guess
I wouldn't give it a try. But maybe your /var/log/Xorg.*.log is a
little more verbose about that?

Cheers,
Kristian

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stan wrote:
> I have just set up compiz on several machines with Nvidia graphics cards,
> and it is cool.. Ok so it's kust eye candy, and a huge waste of CPU cycles
> :-)
>
> So, I have a laptop, and a number of Sun 2100's that have ATI cards for
> graphics. Is there a way to run compiz on them? Here is the line out of
> xorg.conf for one of the 2100's:
>
> Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
>
> and it is presently using the "ati" driver.
>
> Can I do this? if so how?
>

not with that card.

you need better hardware, and then either to run the xgl-server (btw
which ubuntu are you running? gutsy i assume...) or get the 8.42+
drivers from ATI which have AIGLX support.

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On 14/02/2008, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
> I have just set up compiz on several machines with Nvidia graphics cards,
> and it is cool.. Ok so it's kust eye candy, and a huge waste of CPU cycles
> :-)
>
> So, I have a laptop, and a number of Sun 2100's that have ATI cards for
> graphics. Is there a way to run compiz on them? Here is the line out of
> xorg.conf for one of the 2100's:
>
> Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
>
> and it is presently using the "ati" driver.
>
> Can I do this? if so how?

Here is my xorg.conf file. I've got an ATI X1400 in a Dell Inspiron
6400 with Compiz-Fusion running.

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1680x1050"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Module"
load "GLcore"
load "glx"
load "dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
# Option "Composite" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection


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