What are you doing now?

lupusarcanus · 03-11-2010, 09:01 PM

My weekend project was to install Arch -- again -- on a reiserFS partition and try to get Compiz and Emerald to be my Standalone WM on an LXDE environment. (I would go KDE, but...thats Difficult...).

lupusarcanus · 03-11-2010, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

Yep, sure do...

Code:

[mrcode@archie ~]$ glxinfo | grep -i "direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes

[mrcode@archie ~]$ glxinfo | grep -i "renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2

I'm not sure what went wrong, though — I checked Xorg.0.log, but there was nothing unusual there, and I checked errors.log (for some odd reason you need to be root to view it...?), and I found this:

Code:

Mar 11 09:39:26 archie kernel: pci 0000:01:02.0: BAR 6: address space collision on of device [0xfea00000-0xfea3ffff]
Mar 11 14:10:54 archie kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Mar 11 14:10:54 archie kernel: [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
Mar 11 14:10:54 archie kernel: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Mar 11 15:12:52 archie kernel: pci 0000:01:02.0: BAR 6: address space collision on of device [0xfea00000-0xfea3ffff]

Do you suppose this might have something to do with the fact that the GPU on this thing is integrated (and therefore shares system memory)? I can re-install Compiz and start a separate thread in Linux - Software if need be...

Hey MrCode...When I finally got Compiz to work on my Arch box, it was because of some really obscure rendering problem -- like yours. Check out the Arch Wiki: "Compiz Troubleshooting'...and check out the Intel article..

smeezekitty · 03-11-2010, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by leopard

Hey MrCode...When I finally got Compiz to work on my Arch box, it was because of some really obscure rendering problem -- like yours. Check out the Arch Wiki: "Compiz Troubleshooting'...and check out the Intel article..

Have you tried my compression program yet?

lupusarcanus · 03-11-2010, 09:27 PM

I have school, so I don't have (too) much time.

I just downloaded it; and ran those commands. (In the RLEPACK directory)

How do I use your program?

smeezekitty · 03-11-2010, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by leopard

I have school, so I don't have (too) much time.

I just downloaded it; and ran those commands. (In the RLEPACK directory)

How do I use your program?

Just type ./compress or ./decompress to get usage information.

lupusarcanus · 03-11-2010, 09:43 PM

It worked. I uploaded the compressed file as .txt. (Thats the only way I could upload it...)

smeezekitty · 03-11-2010, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by leopard

It worked. I uploaded the compressed file as .txt. (Thats the only way I could upload it...)

That had a total compression of 2%
I had 25% compression by compressing lsof output.

lupusarcanus · 03-11-2010, 10:49 PM

*lol*

@smeezekitty

I got a segmentation fault when I tried to compress the entire plain text version of the book "War & Peace". LOL. That's like 600+ pages of just words... LOL.

Could you fix that?

smeezekitty · 03-11-2010, 10:59 PM

It seems to be an overflow limiting to input to 639K, i am fixing now.

smeezekitty · 03-11-2010, 11:02 PM

Fixed!

barboolian · 03-12-2010, 04:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

And that seemed to work out fine. But when I brought up the Xfce Run dialog and did compiz --replace, it would leave me without window management. No frames, no Alt-dragging to move windows, nothing; just the display areas of the windows already on screen. I could bring it back with xfwm4 --replace, however.

I get the same thing.

XavierP · 03-12-2010, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by minrich

@XavierP - looks like I promise to pay the bearer etc., however I have to ask, are you cheating by using a UK keyboard or do you have some magical power?

I am indeed cheating - I have set my keyboard to be the International 104 key keyboard and the locale to be the UK. I will hand in my foreign passports at the border.

adamk75 · 03-12-2010, 04:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

Well, I got all the packages for Compiz via the following:

Code:

[root@archie mrcode]# pacman -S compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra ccsm

And that seemed to work out fine. But when I brought up the Xfce Run dialog and did compiz --replace, it would leave me without window management. No frames, no Alt-dragging to move windows, nothing; just the display areas of the windows already on screen. I could bring it back with xfwm4 --replace, however.

As I said before, I can start a separate thread for this issue...

'compiz --replace' only works on linux distributions that use the compiz-manager script as 'compiz' (Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives). Install compiz-manager and use that to start compiz. Of course, make sure that the necessary plugins are enabled in ccsm first, too.

Adam

MTK358 · 03-12-2010, 06:51 AM

I don't know, if you are using Xfce (or just Xfwm) maybe try this:

Code:

$ killall xfwm4
$ compiz

damgar · 03-12-2010, 07:58 AM

I am thinking this thread has become too procuctive.