Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #123263
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 123263

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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote : Re: tribe-2 has severe problems due to screen effects enabled by default

Dear Travis,

On Jul 15 2007, Travis Watkins wrote:
> Can you make sure /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/detect_outputs
> is checked in gconf-editor? If you can't get to that easily boot in
> recovery mode (option in grub) and change your xorg.conf to use the
> 'vesa' driver instead of the 'mga' driver.

I'm not in front of my computer right now, but I can tell you that if I
*boot* (not change, as you mentioned) in vesa ("safe graphics mode"),
then I don't have problems.

Also, if I go to a console and put a resolution bigger than 1280x1024,
then, I think that due to the lack of VRAM, compiz is disabled and I get
a normal desktop, without the effects.

I would like to use the 3D effects, and I bought a Matrox G400 exactly
because it is/was one of best supported cards on Linux, with
specifications for the (at the time) XFree86 developers (so that I
wasn't tied to Linux only).

I don't know if my guess regarding the resolution is correct, but it
surely seems to be the case. I will get to my computer as soon as I can
and I will try to see if */detect_outputs is enabled or not.

Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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