Compiz Fusion causes my system to freeze completely

[Renan]

Hello,

I have the following system:

Pentium 4 3.0GHz
512MB RAM
GeForce FX5200 with latest NVIDIA drivers.
Arch Linux with all latest updates

I installed compiz-fusion on it, but when I try to run it my machine freezes hard (requiring the RESET button to restart it, because both the keyboard and mouse lock hard).

My xorg.conf is as follows (comments stripped):

Section "ServerLayout"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"
# Load "dri"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "xtt"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
Option "XkbLayout" "br"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "AOC LM520B"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
VideoRam 131072
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Identifier "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "nv"
Monitor "AOC LM520B"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Coolbits" "1"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

This is the Xserver version:

renan@passion:~$ X -version

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux passion 2.6.21-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 11 23:47:51 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 31 May 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present


How can I fix that?

Thanks.

[Jupiter]

You don't need any of the DRI stuff in your xorg. Also did you
install from this repo?
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=638 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=638)

[Renan]

I have had this xorg.conf for ages, so I haven't removed the DRI stuff, I might remove it later, though. I installed Compiz-fusion from nesl247's repo.

renan@passion:~$ cat /etc/pacman.conf | grep fusion
[compiz-fusion]
Server = http://arch.nesl247.org/compiz-fusion/i686

But I solved the problem by running 'compiz-manager' rather than 'compiz-icon':

renan@passion:~$ ps axu | grep compiz
renan 5809 0.0 0.2 4724 1072 ? S 17:27 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/compiz-manager
renan 5812 0.0 0.0 4724 496 ? S 17:27 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/compiz-manager
renan 5816 6.1 2.5 49176 13180 ? SL 17:27 2:52 compiz --loose-binding --sm-disable --replace ccp
renan 7254 0.0 0.1 3684 836 pts/1 S+ 18:14 0:00 grep compiz

[Jupiter]

I have had this xorg.conf for ages, so I haven't removed the DRI stuff, I might remove it later, though. I installed Compiz-fusion from nesl247's repo.

renan@passion:~$ cat /etc/pacman.conf | grep fusion
[compiz-fusion]
Server = http://arch.nesl247.org/compiz-fusion/i686

But I solved the problem by running 'compiz-manager' rather than 'compiz-icon':

renan@passion:~$ ps axu | grep compiz
renan 5809 0.0 0.2 4724 1072 ? S 17:27 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/compiz-manager
renan 5812 0.0 0.0 4724 496 ? S 17:27 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/compiz-manager
renan 5816 6.1 2.5 49176 13180 ? SL 17:27 2:52 compiz --loose-binding --sm-disable --replace ccp
renan 7254 0.0 0.1 3684 836 pts/1 S+ 18:14 0:00 grep compiz

Excellent Renan. Am glad yo got it going. When prefixing the thread [SOLVED], please
do it in your first post of the thread so it shows up in the thread title rather than a post
title. I will change it for you. And thanks for at least trying to do that.

Thanks
Jupiter