compiz (core) - fatal: No sync extension

[breakaway]

As in title.

Laptop: Dell XPS M1330
Video Card: nVidia 8400M
Driver: 169.04 (beta) for Linux x86

(I've tried 100.14.19 for Linux x86 also, and I get the same error)

When I run either


[breakaway@localhost ~] compiz
compiz (core) - fatal: No sync extension


or


[breakaway@localhost ~] compiz --replace
compiz (core) - fatal: No sync extension


Compiz won't start and throws that error.

Here is my xorg.conf:


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Nov 14 17:10:54 PST 2007

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Anyone?

I've tried google searches, and so far I haven't come up with anything.

[adamk]

Try adding this line to the Module section:

Load "extmod"

And then restarting X.

[breakaway]

Try adding this line to the Module section:

Load "extmod"

And then restarting X.

I addded that and rebooted, this is what I got:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1439/snapshot1xj1.png

[adamk]

Well, unless /usr/bin/compiz is a wrapper script that does it automatically, you probably need to start compiz with the ccp plugin: 'compiz --replace ccp &'

Adam

[breakaway]

Well, unless /usr/bin/compiz is a wrapper script that does it automatically, you probably need to start compiz with the ccp plugin: 'compiz --replace ccp &'

Adam

Alright! It works! Wobbly windows! Desktop Cube!

A couple more questions: How do I make my taskbar transparent like it was when I had Beryl many moons ago? And, how do I make Compiz auto-load on startup?

[adamk]

Alright! It works! Wobbly windows! Desktop Cube!

A couple more questions: How do I make my taskbar transparent like it was when I had Beryl many moons ago?


You can use the window matching rules to configure the opacity for any window in the general options in ccsm. You can read about the window matching rules here: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/WindowMatching (which seems to be down at the moment, at least here, so here's the google cache: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:TCabYYB05LYJ:wiki.compiz-fusion.org/WindowMatching+compiz+window+matching+rules&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera )

And, how do I make Compiz auto-load on startup?

That depends on your distribution and desktop environment :-)

Adam

[breakaway]

Thanks a ton Adam. Just wondering, is there no GUI to control Compiz behaviour?

That depends on your distribution and desktop environment :-)

Fedora 8, Running KDE. I presume I need to add that command I used to start compiz to a start up script?

[adamk]

Thanks a ton Adam. Just wondering, is there no GUI to control Compiz behaviour?



Sure there is. It's compizconfig-settings-manager (aka 'ccsm').


Fedora 8, Running KDE. I presume I need to add that command I used to start compiz to a start up script?

That is correct. You can create a script under ~/.kde/Autostart with that command in it, make the script executable, and it will automatically start compiz from now on.

Adam

[breakaway]

Sure there is. It's compizconfig-settings-manager (aka 'ccsm').



That is correct. You can create a script under ~/.kde/Autostart with that command in it, make the script executable, and it will automatically start compiz from now on.

Adam

Compiz is automatically starting itself, I didn't do anything to it. However, how do I access compizconfig-settings-manager? Typing compiz-manager crashes the system (The bars on top of Windows disappear etc)

[Deciare]

The command that launches the CompizConfig Settings Manager is "ccsm".

compiz-manager is a startup script that would normally allow you to start Compiz without bothering with passing extra parameters to its command line, but it doesn't seem to be working normally for you. ^^;

Compiz is automatically starting itself, I didn't do anything to it.
KDE's automatic session restore, which automatically restarts every program you had open at the time you logged out, probably picked it up. There are several reasons why it would be better for it not to, but if it's working for you, you can leave it for now.

[breakaway]

The command that launches the CompizConfig Settings Manager is "ccsm".

I'm getting a

-bash: ccsm: command not found

error when I type 'ccsm'. Tried it as root, even with su -. Am I missing something here?

[adamk]

Install it :-) It's probably part of a package called ccsm or compizconfig-settings-manager.

Adam