Getting Compiz Fusion to work on Dell Latitude D630 with AIGLX (965GM; X3100)

Preparing the system

Preparing Xorg:

The important parts are in bold.
The bold parts that begin with a # are options you can experiment it... but this was the way I got my Compiz Fusion working.
PS: be sure you have a backup.


Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,be"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "intel"
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
# Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
# Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
# Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
Option "aiglx" "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0660
EndSection

After doing these changes you need to restart your Xorg.
This is accomplished with the key combination CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.


Preparing for Compiz Fusion installation:

First we need to add a repository to aptitude.
Change the line according to what release you have, (go to the directory for your release in your webbrowser and copy that location) mine was Lenny.
Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/stable/ ./


And add the certificat to prevent an apt warning.

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/A42A6CF5.gpg -O- | apt-key add -

And eventually update the package database:

apt-get update

Installing and test-run:

Lets now install Compiz Fusion :D :

apt-get install compiz-fusion-kde

And Emerald which has some nice themes:

apt-get install emerald

To run it, in a terminal you type:

emerald --replace

If you loose the window decorations you should put focus on your shell and type

kwin --replace

or just

kwin

Starting Compiz Fusion automatically at logon:

Create the following file with your favorite file editor (mine is VIM):

vi ~/.kde/Autostart/compiz.desktop

In this file you put this:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=compiz –replace & emerald &
GenericName[en_US]=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-autostart-after=kdesktop


THATS IT :D

In the beginning I had some problems with shadows which where shown as white borders around menus.
If I recall correctly, I turned of the Menu shadows in the KDE Control Center.


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Skype on Debian Lenny AMD64 (testing; x86_64)

First I tried to install through the package manager:

apt-cache search skype

This didn't gave any result.

So I went to the skype website and looked for a debian package.
I found one, but it was for i386 architecture so installing it fails.
Still we can force it to install:

apt-get install --force-architecture skype-debian_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb

Then I tried to run it but got an error saying that libsigc-2.0.so.0 is missing:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I thought, I have an unmet dependecy, lets install libsigc package:

sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-0c2a

Now I have the library but still the same error message so it seems that there is another problem.
After some googling I had an explanation why installing the libsigc package did not solve it: skype for i386 architecture needs the 32bit library, not the 64bit library.

Eventually I found a small script that solves these issues:


#!/bin/bash
lib=`skype 2>&1 | awk '{print $7}' | cut -d':' -f1`
echo "lib: $lib" pkg=`dpkg -S $lib | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d':' -f1 | sort -u`
url=`wget -qO- http://packages.debian.org/lenny/$pkg/i386/download | awk '/ftp\.br\.debian\.org/' | cut -d'"' -f2`
file=`echo $url | awk '{n=split($0,a,"/"); print a[n]}'`
if [ ! -f deb/$file ]; then
wget -q $url
mv $file deb
fi
ar -x deb
libfile=`tar ztf data.tar.gz | grep ${lib}$`
tar zxf data.tar.gz $libfile
sudo cp -d $libfile /usr/lib32/
if ls -l $libfile | grep -qF ' -> '; then
lnlib=`ls -l $libfile | awk '{print $10}' | cut -d':' -f1`
libfile2=`tar ztf data.tar.gz | grep ${lnlib}$`
tar zxf data.tar.gz $libfile2
sudo cp -d $libfile2 /usr/lib32/
fi

Source: http://www.debian-administration.org/users/figjam/weblog/1
Note that there is an error in the original script


Now after putting this into a file and making it executable:

chmod +x script

Lets run it:

./script
./script
lib: libQtGui.so.4

Now you will see that each time you run it, another library dependancy get solved (libQtGui will change).
You have to RUN IT MULTIPLE TIMES (this is in CAPITALS for copy-paste people who don't read).

If skype starts, then all librarys are available. From now on you can use "skype" on the command line or launch it from your favorite desktop environment.

Have fun!

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