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Thanks for making this how to! Unfortunately it didn't quite work for me. I don't know if it's supposed to work on every ATI card? I have a X700.

What happened was that after "SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz" The whole screen went completely white! It was obvious that the programs was still running "behind" the white, because I could see the cursor changing when I moved it around. And Compiz was running, because when I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Down the cube "unfolded", and I saw the skydome in the background, but the desktops was still completely white. Do you know how to fix this?

its is really?????

its a really link of the driver ati?

because if you paste in the explorer http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-in...

so download

sorry for my english

I did it,but the desktop effects is not enable.

Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting kde-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 4
Resource id: 0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 4
Resource id: 0x0

What did I do wrong?

"Checking for Composite extension: not present. "

and

"/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension "

compisite is disabled in you xorg.conf, you need to enable it.

i have the same problem as boerge,i have radeon 9550 card.Do you know how to fix this?

Doesn't work...

Thx for this nice how to.

Compiz is working, also cube runs good. But in Firefox or other Tools scrolling is very slow... and some things like that.. ?!

Do you have an answer for me?

Thanks

I have the same scrolling problem. Any ideas?

andrew.barlow@gmail.com

obsi@ubuntu:~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

What's wrong in that line second from bottom? I can't open compiz settings tool :C

for whitelisting
in gnome

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager

in KDE

sudo kate /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager

add this line at the end

WHITELIST=fglrx

this is a FAKE

this driver is not real!!!!!

fglrx 8.42.3 even not is available. Check this http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rs...

OK????

Regarding the link, if you try download ati-driver-installer-8.50.3-x86.x86_64.run , also download

try http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-in...

this howto is very TRUCHO!! xDDD

Your instructions worked a charm... almost. When I enable compiz with compiz --replace, window borders disappear briefly, then compiz seems to start. Virtual desktop switching and wobbly windows are very clearly working, but there are a LOT of corrupted artifacts. There is pink-green snow on the konsole (I am in KDE) and the buttons on the kicker bar are mostly covered in white.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Nice guide man. I still got a strange problem:
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
(--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kByte, Type: DDR2
(II) fglrx(0): PCIE card detected
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported

Just to follow up:
I had modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/fglrx.ko': No such file or directory

after sudo ln -s /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/fglrx.ko
sudo modprobe fglrx
but sudo lsmod | grep fglrx is still empty...

Final news ;) Now:
(II) fglrx(0): ATI Video BIOS revision 9 or later detected
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection

So it seems like the driver is loaded but DRI is not there...

@ZeQk: I don't think so...

look at:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&i...
http://www.formatds.org/ati-8423-is-out-aiglx-s...

I've fixed it :) Just reinstalled everything...

Anyway am I the only one who has semitransparent AMD logo with Testing use only Unsupported hardware?

It sort of pisses me of a bit :)

Sorry, Its is true!

i do, and works perfectly

sorry for my mistake

This method enables Compiz-fusion correctly on laptop Toshiba Satellite M40-281 with ATi Mobility Radeon X700.

Thank you so much !!!

Had some problems getting it to work from my Feisty upgrade Gutsy so I re-installed from scratch, followed this guide and SUCCESS!

Thanks mate!

I was able to install the driver for my ati x600 and didn't required me to insert anything on my xorg.conf, but I did have to create SKIP_CHECKS=yes doc for compiz-manager. After that I was able to run compiz-fuxion via aiglx, but it seem to slow down firefox scroll.

Works ! Metacity won't move any window, i search the bug ...

did everything as in the article

glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300 / X1550 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator

(gtk-window-decorator:5961): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap

(gtk-window-decorator:5961): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension

What can a problem be in?

edit:
/etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager

and add:
WHITELIST="nvidia intel ati radeon i810 fglrx"

then it should work... and check if you have edited:
/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

with
DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx"

Another very good Wiki is the "Unofficial Wiki of ATI":
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_I... (Ubuntu)
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page

I can confirm that it works with a x600 Mobile on a Kubuntu 7.10 laptop.

Just followed the tutorial ... that's all. Maybe I should note my previous attempts with the older driver version and xgl,which screwded my X. I did NOT make a clean install, just deactivated the fglrx.

I can also confirm the Firefox scrolling problem. Nice effects, but KDE4 is ante portas ...

I did everything like in this manual, but when I decided to check the driver. And here is it:

roman@roman-laptop:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

What's wrong? It came back to mesa driver...

I think it's necessary to add to this manual:

"and after this it's necessary to turn ATI driver on through restricted driver manager"

Now I've got:

roman@roman-laptop:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

(before last line look like
"8.37.8")

and

roman@roman-laptop:~$ glxgears
14909 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2981.661 FPS
15061 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3012.090 FPS
15059 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3011.716 FPS
15071 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3014.052 FPS
15068 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3013.552 FPS

What, I believe, not really bad for ancient Radeon 9600 :)

Author, REALLY thanks :)

Well, here works OK, no problem at all.

where should i put
SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz
should i open a file?

Thank you very much for these informations!

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# Driver package
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/bin/fgl*" "usr/bin"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig" "usr/bin"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/sbin/atieventsd" "usr/sbin"
dh_installman -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/share/man/man8/atieventsd.8"
# amd64 needs some library redirection
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/*.so*" "usr/lib"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri" "usr/lib"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/linux" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/*.so" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/*.a" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib/*.so*" "usr/lib32"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri" "usr/lib32"
cp: cannot stat `./usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri': No such file or directory
dh_install: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary] Error 1
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.sH6586

What did i do wrong ?

moi1392 (Anonym) vor 10 Tagen

"Checking for Composite extension: not present. "

and

"/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension "

compisite is disabled in you xorg.conf, you need to enable it.

How I can enable it?

kubuntu 7.10 acer 1692 x700 if not write in xorg.... # Set up the driver

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Make sure "fglrx" is set for the Driver in the Section "Device".

And if present, remove (whoohoo again)

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "0" # or "Disable"

EndSection

As well as

Section "ServerFlags"

Option "AIGLX" "off"

EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
Option "XkbVariant" ","
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Универсальный монитор"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Centermode" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)"
Monitor "Универсальный монитор"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

works (as a) (see above like without brakes) the truth when starting writes about errors
skull1980@ubuntu:~$ SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Blacklisted PCIID '1002:5653' found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Info: Loading filter negative (item negative).
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Info: Loading filter negative-green (item negative-green).
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Info: Loading filter blueish-filter (item blueish-filter).
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Info: Loading filter sepia (item sepia).
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Info: Loading filter grayscale (item grayscale).
/usr/bin/compiz.real (colorfilter) - Warn: Tried to load 5 filter(s), 3 succeeded.

Hey Forlong ! I'm a newbie to Linux and your blog has helped me so much, appreciate all your trouble on making those. Anyways I have a question... I did a fresh install of ubuntu 7.10 and have a RADEON 9200 ATI and it didn't ask for the restricted driver... compiz works fine and fast (unless I start making to many effects like playing around with fire and then some other stuff FPS drop down to 12 or something but I think thats the graphic card capabilities) I have the radeon open source driver (I think) should I install this new driver ? Is it better to have the ATI driver or the open source ? and how can I see which specs is my graphics card with ? "fglrx" on terminal tab ? thank you and sorry for bother

Forlong,

I have the exact same card (Radeon 9600 XT) and it seems that no matter what technique I use or what tutorial I follow, I can never get direct rendering to turn on, which is a pain in the butt. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Works for me!!
I cut and pasted each command in your guide.
When I rebooted I had a black screen :(
So I rebooted in Restore mode and checked
/var/log/xorg.0.log.1 where I saw (EE) saying
depth was not supported, this was because I was running
'default depth 16' in xorg.conf I changed that to 24 and
rebooted and VIOLA!
For compiz I read other comments and found a reference to
setting 'WHITELIST=fglrx' and now compiz works as well.

Thank you!!!!

is ATI x1650Pro supported with this driver? or only HD cards ?

I still have mesa !!! display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

You need to add sudo to your number 7 step for installation .
I also found this link from ATI to the Unofficial ATI wiki and instructions for installation here --> http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_I...
Neither of the installations worked for me there. I used yours before and it worked,but my effects kept dissapearing or stopped working after enabling it a few times.I had a black screen on installtion of 7.11 drivers also. the 7.10 drivers worked but not very stable. ATI had better get it's head out of the sand on fixing drivers for Ubuntu,because Nvidia is way ahead of them on compatibility and features for Ubuntu.Alot of people do NOT want to upgrade from XP to Vista and are trying Ubuntu instead whereas it has lower memory requirements and is FREE.I have bought ati vid cards for many years but I'm getting tired of playing with trying to install half baked drivers for Ubuntu.Maybe time to try Nvidia?
Even DEll is selling computers with Linux and wants better ATI DRIVERS..

Zitat:# Compile kernel module

sudo m-a prepare,update

sudo m-a build,install fglrx-kernel

sudo depmod

i enter those and i get:

"sudo: m-a: command not found"

any ideas??

ok i got past that last thing, now i have this and it still wont load:

lewis@ubuntu1:~$ SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:4153 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald

(emerald:5823): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension

Hi! First off, thanks for the how-to. It almost worked for me :)

Fist thing is that compiz is slow. It seems that I don't have 3d acceleration enabled. (~200 fps in glxgears).

Second is that desktop is completely white as another user mentioned before.

Is it possible to run compiz with any other driver?

Hey
After going trough this guide the driver stopped working and now the only driver that works is vesa. Before that I could run my radeon with 'ati' or 'fglrx' drivers.
I completely removed xorg-driver-fglrx package, but still no go. I reverted the file with module blacklist. What else do I need to revert to get my machine to previous state?

Hi,

I followed your tutorial and it worked fine till step 11. I have an HP nx6325. When i type SKIP_CHECKS = yes compiz I get following message and my screen goes completely white and I need to reboot to get back to normal. The error message I am receiving is :

Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x768) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator

Can you help me out?

I also enabled ati through the restricted drivers manager and whitelisted fglrx in /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager. Now my screen does not become white... but I get teh following error:

divya@Curiouser:/usr/bin$ ./compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
01:05.0 0300: 1002:5975 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No composite extension

(gtk-window-decorator:6850): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap

(gtk-window-decorator:6850): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap

Any help please???

I spent quite a while getting this to work. I went from compiz with low resolution, to no compiz high resolution, and finally with a combination of installing, reinstalling your way then enabling propriety in restricted drivers i managed to get compiz running with flgrx and AIXGL.

But the problem now is that i went to watch a video and all my player came out blocky, like the codec wasn't working properly? I tried vlc with all the different video output methods and the only only one that was smooth is the opengl option. The problem is that it is flickering alot when not in full screen, especially when i move it. Also i noticed that with glxgears it was flickering too. Could this be a problem with the new driver or openGL. I am pretty new to all this and have a x600 mobility card.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

YES!!!!!
It works just as described!
Thank you very much!
I had problems with somposite setting in xorg.conf, because in the beginning I didn't read carfully that these settings must be removed from file.
After removing all works OK!
Thanks again!

Oh ehm *D'OH!*
My Ubuntu 7.10 totaly crashed only low Graphics mode is still working...
I did has u told me at every step...
but anything went wrong... can you give me a hint please?

Greetings Tetrapack

Worked perfectly on Dell Latitude D810. Thank You.

Thanks a lot !
It works perfectly!!!
with GNU/Linux Mint 4.0 [~gutsy 7.10]ATI Radeon 9600 TX
nur was ist ???

Whoohoo

Google

I have installed the ATI driver via Envyng. On reboot and fglrxinfo i get the well known MESA output. The driver is installed but not in use. Any tips on how to proceed with that one man? I can't seem to even reboot because then I have to go through a long process to get the right resolutionl.

Using Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4.1 64 bit.

ATI X700 EXCALIBUR PRO 256MB

Please help me!

darek@darek-desktop:~$ su
Hasło:
root@darek-desktop:/home/darek# SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
not present.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: SmcOpenConnection failed: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: Root visual is not a GL visual
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


=>My card is Radeon9000<=

Thanks

Hi Forlong. This was my result... Any clue?

Checking for texture_from_pixmap...               [FAIL]
 Checking for non power of two support...          [FAIL]
 Checking for composite extension...               [ OK ]
 Checking for FBConfig...                          [ OK ]
 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size

Thank you