[Debian] Installation with an Intel 915G Express

[jpmonette]

Hey

I'm trying to execute : compiz --replace in my console (using GNOME), but this is what I get:

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2582 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator

My motherboard is an Intel 915G Express (http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/index.htm) and my computer is an old HP Pavillon a603n.

When I run the command I mentioned above, every window's header (with the title) dissapear and nothing else happen. I need to restart X to get them back.

Thanks.

[adamk]

Well according to that output, compiz is starting up. Can you navigate the menu system from the gnome panel? Can you alt-click on any windows and drag them. On Ubuntu, the compiz wrapper script automatically uses the ccp plugin, but that might not be the case with Debian, so does using 'compiz --replace ccp &' make a difference?

Adam

[jpmonette]

Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2582 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: SmcOpenConnection failed: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Impossible de charger le thème « Clearlooks » : Impossible de trouver un fichier valide pour le thème Clearlooks

/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'ccp'

Same thing, the titles dissapear... I cant ALT+Click because there's not title bar.

[adamk]

A) It would appear that you're running compiz as some user other than the one logged into X.

B) If it can't load the 'ccp' plugin, you don't actually have the libcompizconfig package installed. Where did you install compiz from?

Adam

[jpmonette]

From the Debian unstable repository:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main

[adamk]

That's probably *not* compiz fusion, just a release of compiz by itself. Is libcompizconfig available in that repo? I've not used it myself, but I understand that Shame has an up-to-date repo for compiz fusion:

http://shame.tuxfamily.org/repo/?cat=11

[jpmonette]

libcompizconfig isn't available, same for compiz-manager... I'll try Shame's rep.

[jpmonette]

Wahhhhh, it's working yahooo! I can start it with: compiz-manager.

Thanks a lot adamk! =) Happy Holidays