Enabling Compiz eZoom desktop plugin for our partially sighted and low vision users hit a snag. Compiz refused to work as Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 chipset is blacklisted in Ubuntu 8.10 Jaunty. This tutorial describes how to override and enable compiz on blacklisted hardware.
You need to add SKIP_CHECKS="yes" at the end /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager. That should fix it.
$ SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Blacklisted PCIID '8086:2a02' found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
# Edit the following file and add at the end of the 'SKIP_CHECKS=yes'
$ sudo nano /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager
# restart compiz and try enabling compiz again.
$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Blacklisted PCIID '8086:2a02' found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
running under gnome seesion, checking for gnomecompat
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
Starting gtk-window-decorator
The latest change to the compiz package caused a "denial of service" wrt to compiz due to being blacklisted (my desktop machines have
ReplyDeleteATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] and ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] cards) although it was working fine for me; is there any simple way to override the blacklist other than recompiling the package?
compiz (1:0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low
* compiz breaks rs480, and we don't have the granularity to blacklist
individual chipsets right now. Blacklist ati.
Matthew
The Browser Buddy