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[37fleetwood]

ok, here you go, let me give a little more detail.
step one:
start up computer and go through the regular puppy stuffup to the xorg wizard.
step two:
tab down to 1440x900 24bit hit enter
step three:
always hit test! and go through that. after everything looks good it's off to the compiz fusion wizard thing.
step four:
on this one I have tried auto, I have tried manual, in manual I have tried all the available options. (do you know what a bother it is? you have to go through the whole xorg wizard thing to get back to the compiz wizard, and to get to the xorg wizard you have to start in vesa and go to the xorg wizard from xfce and start all over )
step five:
I have gone back and tried all the different resolutions and color depths and all the refresh rates in xorg hoping that one would work. (on other puppies I can get xorg working at 1440x900 24bit color and 56 refresh)
step six:
in the compiz fusion wizard I finally chose start xfce without compiz-fusion. and here I am!!

now here is what I have been getting. the setup looks good but when the desktop starts the pointer looks fine but the desktop looks scrambled like the refresh rate is wrong even though when testing the setup in the xorg wizard everything was fine. the only thing to do is to hit ctrl alt backspace and go back to the xorg wizard. when the desk top starts you can see the xfce box come and go and then you can see the icons pop on and if you right click you can see the start menu and if you go to the top the bar comes down and everything is working great it is just like when I was a kid watching playboy channel without paying for it. it's all running fine just scrambled!

right now I'm running in xorg 800x600 24bit and ran the thing you asked me too and here it is, hopefully it helps but I'm not in compiz fusion and there isn't really a crash per say. I apreciate your time and trouble helping me.
Scott

[37fleetwood]

ok, I'm beginning to think it is something to do with the xorg, after posting the last post I tried to get xorg restarted with a more favorable resolution than 800x600 and can't get it working at all. I have other puppies that work fine with xorg but this one doesn't seem to. the next possible issue is that the monitor is hooked up via the "digital" cable (DVI) rather than the regular vga cable. would it help to do another dump running one of the other puppies with xorg running fine? let me know.
Scott

[tombh]

Okay, I think I see the problem, and it's one that's coming up gain and again -- a bug in cfwizard that won't let you override Xorg's generic vesa driver (different from the Xvesa server). I've already promised to fix this for the next release.

To fix this for now, set up Xorg exactly as you want, then choose to "start xfce without compiz-fusion". Then find and open your xorg.conf in etc/X11

Half way through the file there is a section labelled -- Section "Device"

In that you will see a bunch of commented out options, you will need to add these 2 options,

[ragaman]

Hi guys.

After I added some Emerald themes, Emerald Theme Manager would not start. I tried starting it using the Command Line and I got "Segmentation Fault". Is there any hope of reviving ETM? How?

Thanks.

[tombh]

@ragaman: What exactly was the package(s) you installed?

[37fleetwood]

Hi again,
ok I'm here again running in vesa. the problem I'm having is the xorg wizard works fine but the compiz-fusion wizard changes something. when I did as you said I got xorg working fine and then I chose the manual setup and then chose the xfce without compiz fusion and it started up exactly the same as before, the mouse pointer works fine but the desktop is scrambled. I'm going to try altering the lines you mentioned and see if I can restart x
Scott

[37fleetwood]

ok, for some reason, going back and trying to set up xorg through the wizard doesn't work. if you boot the computer the xorg wizard will set up correctly, if you go back to it from running in vesa it will not configure properly at any setting (always the scrambled screen). I set xorg to a setting that I know works on boot and ignored the fact that it fails the test and continued on to the compiz manager and same result as before. all this after altering the file as described. so I'm thinking first thing to address may be getting me going in xorg without compiz and then trying to get it working next. now I have a few other puppies that work fine with xorg, it's just this one. all this is running from the cd as I'm not to confident about installing it while it doesn't work yet. I have a small hard drive if that would make it easier to work on i could do an install.
thanks for your help I'm hoping you can still figure this out.
Scott
P.S. am I the only one having this problem? I mean I know that this is tricky to set up with an ati card but the scrambled screen, is it common?

[ragaman]

I installed the following Emerald Themes:

TruGRN
Zwurgh
Glassy
italy
87898ice

Solved this by removing above themes.

[tombh]

@37fleetwood:

Okay, let's try it this way round. Here's what your xorg.conf should be, the only thing you may want to change is the resolution about 7 lines from the bottom.

[37fleetwood]

here's the problem, I cant get it going in xorg at all. as soon as I get through the xorg wizard successfully, the compiz wizard thing shows up and changes something and then there is no setting in xorg that will work.
I tried pasting what you had into the xorg.conf and reboot from vesa but it came back in vesa, if i go to the xorg wizard it will rewrite what I just wrote won't it? and even if I get through that, the compiz thing will just change it again and we're back where we started. I tried starting with a clean disc of puppy 4 dingo and installed xfce4 with no problem but when I started installing and bug fixing the 3d accelleration it did the same thing we're having here. could it be that the compiz wizard thing is starting x with 3d accelleration enabled when my settings for it are wrong? and even if I try to start in xfce43 without compiz the wizard still tries for 3d accelleration? I'm just guessing but that's where it seems to go bad.
Scott

[37fleetwood]

ok, I went on my instincts and from the xorg wizard I deleted these lines from xorg.conf

# This loads the direct rendering module needed for hardware accelerated graphics
# Needed for Compiz-Fusion to function
Load "dri"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension

I am now running in xorg at 1440x900 24bit!
so now we know the problem is the 3d accelleration so maybe you can help me from here, tell me what to do.
Scott

[jtouso]

"...a bug in cfwizard that won't let you override Xorg's generic vesa driver (different from the Xvesa server). I've already promised to fix this for the next release."
Yes, waiting new version but...when?

[tombh]

@Scott: Oh dear, it's tough isn't it! We'll get there though. So you tried getting DRI going in Puppy 4, if you're up for it I think you'd be better off going down that root. The How To I wrote for Compiz-Fusion in Puppy 4, is basically everything that the CFwizard tries to do automatically in wNOP, so if you can follow the How To, we'll have a lot more control over the process. We just want to be concentrating on everything before actually getting Compiz-Fusion going, therefore just getting DRI going. How does that sound?

@jtouso: How have you got on with the How To yourself?

[37fleetwood]

sounds fine but remember I'm very new to this stuff. I deleted both dri, and dbe because i wasn't sure at the time but I have since put dbe back in place without any adverse reactions. so I am agreed and have already burned Dingo and installed the ati drivers etc and installed xfce4. I also had to delete the Load "dri" now that the 3d accelleration software is in place. now to get it working. this I expect is going to be tricky since running it makes the screen impossible to read. shall I post over there or do you want to continue here?
Scott
P.S. perhaps the lack of 3d acceleration compatibility is something that could be addressed in future releases of puppy as I really think you are onto something with Compiz-Fusion. it is just too cool to pass on for eye candy!

[tombh]

Yeah, I agree Cf is certainly about more than eye-candy! It's rethinking the whole way we interact with a computer, and seeing as so many people spend so much time doing so much important stuff with a computer pushing the boundaries a bit must be a good thing.

Yeah let's take it over to the How To thread. My first question would be, what do you mean by "installing the ati drivers"? You don't mean the proprietary FGLRX driver do you? Because they'd almost certainly be responsible for the garbage screens you get.