Compiz Fusion on an integrated Intel 865G graphics chip under Debian Lenny
December 14th 2007
This YouTube video shows Compiz Fusion running on my work computer. It has a fairly decent CPU (P4 3.00GHz), but no “useless” things like sound cards or (more relevant for this issue) graphics card. The only thing it has is an Intel 82865G graphics chip integrated in the motherboard. We are talking about an integrated chip (not dedicated graphics card) released in May 2003.
Judge the performance for yourself (take into account that the actual performance is higher, since the recording program to make the video also uses up some resources):
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NS17BuLMus]
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Amila on 28 Feb 2008 at 16:41 pm #
Hi,
I’m using debian lenny on my HP dv2132ea lap and recently i’v installed compiz-fusion-kde.
My graphc is onboard intel 945GM express family.
I still couldn’t have any of the compiz effects for my lap.
”
hal:~# fusion-icon
-su: fusion-icon: command not found ”
”
hal:~# compiz-manager
Checking for Xgl: xvinfo: Unable to open display
not present.
xset: unable to open display “”
xset q doesn’t reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Window manager error: Unable to open X display
”
I could get the CM to seperate window and can setup the effects but still no effects are appearing.
I’ve used the following repos to get the packages..
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
I’ve edited the xorg.conf as..
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “enable”
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller”
Driver “intel”
BusID “PCI:0:2:0″
Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”
EndSection
Please help me to get this thing working
thanx..
isilanes on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:24 am #
You can install fusion-icon with:
% aptitude install fusion-icon
Incidentally, the package that contains the fusion-icon executable is called “fusion-icon” too. When you want to find out what package contains a given file where the above is not true:
% wajig whichpkg filename
For that, you need the wajig package first:
% aptitude install wajig
To see if you are able to run CP, please tell me about the output of:
% glxinfo | grep render
(glxinfo is in package mesa-utils)