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[tex]

Compiz is working, but I cannot configure it. I am missing libtk8.5.so and libtel8.5.so which belong to: usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so. I too have looked and cannot find any info. I really appreciate this great how to!

[tombh]

@cb88: I've never tried that myself, but thanks for mentioning it.

@aoiyamoto: Great news! Thanks for persevering, it will inspire others I'm sure. The dbus error is just a warning and nothing to worry about, if you autostart CF at boot time then you won't see any errors. As far as I know the only other window-decorators, as they're called, that you can have with CF are the gtk-window-decorator and the kde-window-decorator, neither of which are included with my CF dotpet -- they need to be configured in at compile time. However, forum member wow has a CF dotpet for Puppy 4 that does have the gtk-window-decorator with it.

@tex: This is great news too! What graphics card do you have?

I'm going tohave to look into these missing python deps as I've not come across the problem before -- though I suspect it is to do with the fact that my How To links to the Puppy 3 version of Python. Ah! stevenbinion has compile python and essential modules for Puppy 4. You will need the python-cairo, python-gtk and python-gobject modules too remember. I think they'll already be included if you decide to use stevenbinion's SFS. I'm not sure whether installing this newer version will overwrite the older version. Please let me know how this goes, so I can update the How To, if there is success.

[aoiyamoto]

Still missing those two files after installing all of his .pets.
Also, I don't know if I should or not, but I don't have a " /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/" directory.

[Max Headroom]

My Card is NVidia GeForce FX5200, does that mean it is Gf5?

[tex]

I have a Dell 700m system with Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller. I am using SkinnyPup 4.0a. I installed XFCE-442-Dingo.pet and it needed zlibsCups.pet. I followed all your suggestions for installing Compiz. Adding modprobe -n i915 to rc.local fixed my dri problem.
Thanks again!

[aoiyamoto]

Okay, so I managed to fix everything, or at least 90% of it by just taking the lib files I needed and other files I needed from wNOP. Anyway, I need help with a few things.

First off, when I have my windowmanager text file set to startxfce4 it loads up my icewm than my xfce4m also, it paints the icewm screen until I press a buttion, or until I click something. This does not happen if I type startxfce4 at the prompt though. So is there a way I can have it call startxfce4 instead of startx?

Secondly, Where do I put the line "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp &" ?? I need to know exact placement, cause I didn't know where near the top to place it.

Thanks for all your help so far, by the way.

[tex]

I was wondering where on the menu ccsm should be? It is not on my menu and will not start from the terminal with the ccsm command. Is that because of the missing python files? I uninstalled python for ccsm and installed the .sfs from Steve Binion, but that did not cause ccsm to work and my windows became huge. I tried installing all the .pets, but I came up with other missing files, libORBit-imodule-2.so.0 and libORBit-2.so.0. Compiz runs at start, but I cannot configure it.

Aoiyamoto, my .xinitrc file starts like this:
!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp &
sleep 3

[37fleetwood]

ok, I'm here. I have an unaltered wNOP cd on my computer.what do we need to do first? tell me exactly what to do and I'll do it and we'll get this thing working. first order of business is to get 3d accelleration working without actually running it. I can either boot in with vesa or I can edit xorg.conf from the xorg wizard and remove

[tombh]

@aoiyamoto: I reckon those missing files are part of the Tk toolkit (a widget library like GTK) which Barry stopped supporting by default in Puppy 4. I wonder though whether just installing all stevenbinion's pets will automatically replace the old python. What do you get when you type

[37fleetwood]

ok, running nop4.0 with xorg 1440 x 900 @24bit color boots fine.
installed "xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3.pet" and made changes to "findhostbridge" and "rc.local" as directed, also made the changes to "xorg.conf" as directed.
saved to hard drive so I could still use the disc later after however many tries this takes. upon reboot same scrambled crap I've been getting with wNOP v0.2
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and restart x in vesa.
downloaded "glxinfo" (which is a .pup by the way and NOP doesn't have the stuff to allow it to be installed, and I didn't feel like wading through all the forum to find it! it worked withought it anyway I think.)
ran

[aoiyamoto]

Okay, I almost got everything 100%, but there are a few problems.
If I load compiz on it's own at start up, than emerald doesn't work.
If I call emerald --replace before startxfce4 than startxfce4 doesn't work.
If I call startxfce4 before emerald --replace, than emerald --replace doesn't work.

Now after I get xfce4 running I caqn go to a terminal and type emerald --replace and it works. but than it gets stuck so I can't use that terminal anymore and have to open another one. I'm about 80% sure that the stuck terminal is the reason xfce4 doesn't work at startup. Anyone know how to fix that?

[dinky]

Hi tombh, couple minutes free between babies and house-duties...lol...

here's the Xorg.0.log attached. What can you tell me? No longer working from unleashed, using Puppy 4 instead. The support for the eeepc screen res isn't bad... anyway, decided it's going to be much easier rebuilding once I figure how to get compiz-fusion running without making any changes. So followed your how too to a tee, and can't get thi running on the eeepc. Keep in mind this is the same laptop I built eeetiger for, which runs beautifully on it. That's basically a remaster of your wNOP.

My portable hard drive went kaput, so I've been unable to play around much. Oh yeah, and my daughter was born last Saturdat, computers are a very loow priority. Thinking about getting a 4Gb
flash card today, so should be a bit easier to play around. anyway, here's the log, what can you tell me?

p.s. can't seem to attach it. Have posted it on:
http://www.curiouslegends.com.au/tigerpup/Xorg.0.log

[wow]

@37fleetwood: Try to change screen resolution to 800 x 600 @24bit, I'm not sure about this but seems that Open Source drivers can't get DRI working at 24bbp (except for intel and ati gpus) or higher resolutions.

[37fleetwood]

@wow:
Ok, just tried and no go. I had tried all resolutions and all color depths and all refresh rates before but did it again because I hadn't tried it with puppy 4. any other ideas?
Scott

[tombh]

@aoiyamoto: I don't think that WINDOWMANAGER text file is supposed to be edited, my impression is that it is automatically updated when a new window manager is used in order to remember it for next boot. Thus it should suffice to exit to X, type startxfce4 then never do anything again because the new window manager has automatically been saved to the WINDOWMANAGER text file which is checked by the script at every boot.

Now, as for your emerald dilemma, what you want to do is open up CCSM, goto Window Decoration, then type in the "Command" field, "emerald --replace". This will automatically start emerald for you each time CF is started.

@dinky: A new little person, how exciting! Mmm, makes Compiz-Fusion look boring now. Anyway, you need to manually fetch the i915 module from zdrv_400.sfs. It's pretty easy to do, just type