Comments on: Compiz Beta – Part 2

By: Clean6eR

Clean6eR — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:05:28 +0000

hi,

i set my grub to always boot from the correct kernel and then followed your instructions here, it boots and 3d will display but it is doing it using that software emulation opengl thingy, xgl? mesa? the name escapes me.

can the webbook support hardware 3d? so i can play supertux2 or 1 in opengl mode and at a reasonable framerate(glxgears is like 140fps and supertux2 is like 2fps)

Regards,

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:07:42 +0000

I would settle for 8.10 for a while. Have a play with it now you have it working again. Install some applications, mess about. We will get Compiz running somehow at some stage. LTS releases happen every 2 years. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/ubuntu/release-cycle It might be important for a corporate deployment to stick to LTS releases to help with configuration management, personally I like to go for the new shiny stuff. The 6 monthly releases are certainly not betas, they are releases. The first alpha of 9.04 is already out, but it won’t be released until end of April 2009.

By: BlueBird

BlueBird — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:58:08 +0000

Ok, thanks for all your help!!

I’ve now got the dilemma of re-installing 8.4 for Compliz or leaving 8.1 on there and settling for that. lolz. I think i’ll go buy a Dummies guide for ubuntu before I start any other major changes.

One final Q, If i stick with 8.10, I had changed the Update setting sin software sources to be for normal releases instead of LTS releases. Are there any real adifferences (i.e. the normal releases less stable/beta’s?)?

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:56:53 +0000

ah, /home is the general location for all home directories. /home/phil is your one. The # prompt rather than $ means you are root (you probably typed sudo su to get that.) When you are in your home directory the prompt gives your location as “~” because that is an alias for your home directory. You can do cd ~ to go to your home directory if you like.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:52:23 +0000

Great, glad you got it working! 8.10 is perfectly stable once installed, I use it on loads of desktops laptops and servers without issue. Compiz would be nice though and I am talking to some folk at VIA about that (not entirely sure they are listening, but we are talking).

By: BlueBird

BlueBird — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:10:35 +0000

I used cd .. to get into home , as before i was just in phil@webbook:, but using the cd .. it put me into something like phil@webbook:home#.

I’ve followed the above, and check the file and it’s the same as the online file you reference. Seems that i didn’t copy the correct spaces/word alignment when I did it manually (didn’t think it would effect it) as i checked the spelling letter by letter (Upper/Lower case too).

Not it loads as it should (even with the annoying screen flicker as it clears out the memory from last time).

Cheers for your help,
I’m guessing since everyone i’ve spoken too has told me 8.10 is not stable i should revert back to 8.04, with the bonus being i can then put on Compliz too. Any ideas how?

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:42:35 +0000

OK, well that seems like there is something not quite right somewhere in your xorg.conf. You can check through it carefully to see what is missing, but lets try a bit harder to download the one from here and replace your one.
Try going back to a console and type the following. The first cd command makes sure you are in your home directory. We then download the xorg.conf into your home directory, check it is right, then copy it over the one in /etc/X11 (we need to be superuser to do that bit) finally check that it looks right again and reboot.

cd
wget http://webbookblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/xorg.conf
cat xorg.conf
sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
shutdown -r now

By: BlueBird

BlueBird — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:13:35 +0000

Ok, since trying it for a second time still didn’t resolve, i’ve written them in manually. Ubuntu logo appears and then i get a blank screen for abour 3 seconds before getting a warning box that appears that says:
“Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode.
The following error was encountered. You many need to update your configuration to solve this.
(EE) Problem parsin the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file”

I can then click ok, and i’m given 3 options:
1) Run Ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just this session,
2) Reconfigure the graphics,
3) Trouble shoot the error.

Where should i go from here?

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:27:40 +0000

Actually II just means informational so most of the lines would start the same for VIA or CHROME. Given you have an emptyish xorg.conf I think there will be a few lines at the top of the log file starting with (–) to say it probed for the settings as opposed to what we want which is to override them with settings from the config file (**) The full list of markers is:
Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational
You are quite right, the wget line should have overwritten that file, maybe try it again? If that doesn’t work you can edit the file by typing sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf, (ctrl+x to save and quit).

By: BlueBird

BlueBird — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:52:10 +0000

Right, ok I think i found the issue, less /etc/X11/xorg.conf didn’t display half the information in the Device, Monitor and Screen sections. This is what i see:

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSubSection
EndSection

So, i’m guessing i need to re-download a file that will overwrite ths one with the full information needed? Although i thought thats what the wget line I did earlier would have done?

I’ve alos checked the log file you suggested, the lines all start with II so it’s using chrome and not Via i’m guessing??