June 6, 2008
it’s a really bad combination. not so long ago the driver changed default from XAA to EXA, thus my fonts disappeared. after the last update, now compiz just keeps telling me it cannot load cpp plugin and fails to start.
guess the compiz guys put this chip(8086:2992) in their blacklist for a reason. […]
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May 15, 2008
It turns out the default AccelMethod of xdriver “intel” has been changed to EXA, and it’s a known issue that EXA does not work with compiz. So I force the AccelMethod to “XAA” and compiz works again now.
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May 12, 2008
I’m using debian testing (lenny) and after the latest update my xserver no longer display fonts. This is not totally true because I can still see the fonts on gdm, but after logging in, no fonts whatsoever. It turns out the i810 Xorg driver is messed up and I have to set NoAccel […]
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November 18, 2007
Repository:
Visit http://shame.tuxfamily.org/repo/
I use debian testing (lenny), compiz unstable repo. You need compiz-gnome (or compiz-kde). You might need compiz-manager if you want to make compiz your default window manager.
Related settings in xorg.conf:
Section “Device”
Identifier “ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM [Radeon 9100]”
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November 16, 2007
I wrote several posts about the Linux support on Toshiba Protege 2000.[1][2][3][4] Actually I’m still using this elegant laptop to write this article now. It turns out Ubuntu has done quite a impressive work to support laptops. After I installed Debian to replace Ubuntu, the function keys stopped working because no ACPI […]
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