Hi guys,
I recently dropped openSUSE 11.1 RC1 on a Dell XPS laptop just to see how it
was faring for Compiz support on opensource drivers.
I ran into a couple problems; some stupid and minor, and some just odd..
* I installed the system with KDE4.1 and got a working system out of it. The
display resolution on this laptop (which is the size of a small house) is
1920x1600 - I noticed to start, the default KDE splash theme has a grey bar
which is not wide enough to fill the screen all the way! This is the minor
part! :)
* Clicking Enable in Desktop Effects did not do anything.
* Some investigation drew me to try running compiz --replace manually and this
did not work - it complained about the driver not being in the whitelist.
Question: Where is the whitelist?! And why isn't the X.org "radeon" driver in it?
* I set SKIP_CHECKS=yes in ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager as a lot of websites
and wikis suggest and this enabled it to work just fine and ignore the whitelist.
* However they also say "use kde4-window-decorator --replace" instead, which I
tried, and was told by "command-not-found" that compiz-kde4 package was needed
for this command. This is quite odd. Anyway after installing that package it works
a little better, too, and I started testing with kde4-window-decorator.
* Clicking Desktop Effects Enable does not do anything, still. It certainly
does not turn on and off Desktop Effects.
I am going to run through sometime this week or weekend and collect these
problems into bug report(s) but I wondered if I was simply doing anything
wrong. Considering desktop effects is meant to work out of the box I was
curious to say the least that compiz-kde wasn't installed at all.. and I
can't find any reference at all to the compiz system in any startkde4 or
kwin script or wrappers for compiz (if indeed there are any, SUSE seems
not to employ them as Ubuntu and Gentoo to).
Can anyone tell me what I did wrong here? Once I have it sorted on x86 I am
going to run off and build something on PowerPC..
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Matt Sealey