unstable compiz

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Hi there,

I am quite new to Linux but so far I make a huge progress in understanding and get knowning about the system.

However i faced some issues with compiz the last couple of days.

I installed openSuse on my Lenovo Notebook T61p with 4GB RAM and everything works quite fine. I was able to set up avant windows manager in combination with compiz on a Nvidia Geforce Quadro 570 graphical interface. So far so good. When I boot my notebook I can work and AWN is doing exactly what it supposed to do

2 Days ago I installed also VirtualBox. Since then I have a strange behaving of compiz.

When I start VirtualBox compiz is just continuing doing its job on the system. When I close VirtualBox, AWN is just terminating and a Popup Window appears which says:

Warning: Screen isn’t composited. Please run compiz (-fusion) or another compositing manager.

All I can do is then re-boot my computer, or start compiz manually. But even the manual startup does not bring the system in the state it used to be before I started Virtual Box (screenlets are broken and still look funny after re-start compiz).

As I wrote I am running openSuse 11.1 64bit, Nvidia Quadro 570 M graphic card with Nvidia Graphic driver for Gforce 6xxxx or newer CPU 180.29_2.6.27.18_0.3-0.1, AWN 0.3.2, compiz 0.7.8-9.1 and VirtualBox 2.1.4-8.5.

I tried to re-install everything but still no change in the behaving of my sytem.

Thanks

Joerg

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The Warning you told us here seems to be caused by some broken parts of compiz…

I´d recommend you to do the following: Save your VB-Box. UNINSTALL VirtualBox AND Compiz Fusion completely.
Do a clean reboot and install VirtualBox FIRST. Reboot. Then install Compiz Fusion and reboot again. Long way to go - but it should work.

Please report back - glad to have you here. :wink:

TheMask.

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Thanks for the warm welcome :).

I did what you recommended this morning. Unfortunately nothing changed. I still get the termination of compiz when I close VBox.

Could there be a version conflict?

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Please tell us which version of NVIDIA and compiz you are using. As far as I know there an error were compiz crashed on virtualbox on ubuntu, but that was 2008 and has been fixed by now.
I´ve tried to reproduce your error, but as for me everything works flawlessly…

TheMask.

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I’ve currently intalled compiz 0.7.8-9.1 (x86_64) with the following additional packages (for some them I don’t even know if they are required however all of are available in the latest version of open SUSE 11.1):

  • compiz-bcop (0.7.8-1.21 (x86_64))
  • compiz-branding-openSUSE (0.7.8-9.1 (x86_64))
  • compiz devel (0.7.8-9.1 (x86_64))
  • compiz-emerald (0.7.8-2.4 (x86_64))
  • compiz-emerald-devel (0.7.8-2.4 (x86_64))
  • compiz-emerald-themes (0.6.0-1.53)
  • compiz-fusion-plugins-extra (0.7.8-2.13 (x86_64))
  • compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-devel (0.7.8-2.13 (x86_64))
  • compiz-fusion-plugins-main (0.7.8-2.13 (x86_64))
  • compiz-fusion-plugins-main-devel (0.7.8-2.13 (x86_64))
  • compiz-gnome (0.7.8-9.1 (x86_64))
  • compiz-kde (0.7.8-9.1 (x86_64))
  • compiz-manager (0.0.1_git080201-52.1)
  • compiz-plugins-dmx (0.1.0-8.7 (x86_64))
  • compizconfig-settings-manager (0.7.8-1.42 (x86_64))
  • libcompizconfig (0.7.8-1.44 (x86_64))
  • libcompizconfig-backend-gconf (0.7.8-1.42 (x86_64))
  • libcompizconfig-devel (0.7.8-1.44 (x86_64))
  • python-compizconfig (0.7.8-1.44 (x86_64))
  • simple-ccs (0.7.8-11.6 (x86_64))

Initially I’ve installed way less packages. But after the re-install I thought I might have missed some packages so I just installed all of them which made somehow sense to me.

The Nvidia Drivers have the following version (as I mentioned above I have the Nvidia Gforce 570 Quadro Graphical interface):

  • nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default (180.29_2.6.27.18_0.3-0.1 (x86_64))
  • x11-video-nvidiaG2 (180.29-0.1 (x86_64))

Thanks for your help.

joe

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I solved the problem. Since this morning I can open and close the Virtual Box without any issues. Compiz is running much mor stable now.

After you asked me about the Version numbers of my packages I got suspicious about that. So I was searching for a newer version of compiz. I found a repository which I added to the software installer.

So I just upgraded compiz to the version 0.7.8-46.1 (before 0.7.8-9.1).

Thanks anyway for your replies.

Cheers joe

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No Problem - that´s why we are here. Don´t forget to press the “Reputation-Button” if you want to give people your appreciation. :wink:

TheMask.