Compiz Fusion not working on OpenSUSE 11.1

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#1

Hello

I’m new to OpenSUSE, but I have used Mandriva and Ubuntu.

I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 GNOME on my PC, with the GNOME LiveCD.

The PC has 1 GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9200 PRO graphics card.

I use the opensource ‘ati’ driver with this graphic card which provides full 2d and 3d acceleration.

I want to use Compiz Fusion with OpenSUSE.
Compiz Fusion works fine on Mandriva and Ubuntu.

I enabled Compiz Fusion from the Desktop Effects option in Control Center.

Compiz Fusion worked for a short while, but then my entire desktop froze and I couldn’t Ctrl+Alt+Backspace either, so I have to reboot the computer.

I think this may be because the wrong graphic card driver for my graphic card is selected.

I can’t find an option in YAST to change my graphic card driver.

Please help me.

#2

HowTo
ATI - openSUSE

The driver repo:
http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.1/

#3

Thank you for the website links but this isn’t what I want.

On Mandriva and Ubuntu I use the open source ‘ati’ driver with my video card.
OpenGL and Compiz work perfectly on these two distros out of the box with this driver.

I don’t know what driver is currently being used, but the command glxinfo says direct rendering is working.

However, Compiz is not working properly.

I want to know how to change my video card driver.

Please help me.

#4

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 01:16 +0000, xlr wrote:
> Hello
>
> I’m new to OpenSUSE, but I have used Mandriva and Ubuntu.
>
> I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 GNOME on my PC, with the GNOME LiveCD.
>
> The PC has 1 GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9200 PRO graphics card.
>
> I use the opensource ‘ati’ driver with this graphic card which provides
> full 2d and 3d acceleration.
>
>
> I want to use Compiz Fusion with OpenSUSE.
> Compiz Fusion works fine on Mandriva and Ubuntu.

I use Compiz-fusion, using one click install, using KDE 3.5
(and that’s important) under openSUSE 11.1 64bit, without
issue.

So… install KDE 3.5, install compiz-fusion (I installed
KDE 3.5 via links in my Software Manager of YaST, and compiz-fusion
latest via one click install from a link I got from the wiki).

Then login via KDE 3 session and go to the Session Manager config
via Personal Settings -> KDE Components and tell it you want
to use compiz as the Window Manager.

I haven’t seen any huge issues… some stuff related to the
Intel xorg drivers (I haven’t tried any Nvidia or ATI based
machines yet).