Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Lol, installation finished.

I grabbed the netinstaller and did an fresh install on the 780G+4850e system.
fglrx drivers are in use, compiz is installed, now i need to modify xorg.conf.

bbs.



Few hours later: In short, I understand what you mean.
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
I'll get back to ya with more time...

My WD Phenom HD [thoroughly tested as perfect as you see above] just randomly died on a P35 MB. The trigger was adding a PATA and SATA drive together, killed the drive totally and all my work 10 mins before backup schedule

I use an 16GB USB stick as result storage while overclocking and copy that stuff on a regular basis to my local fileserver. If I'm not at home i can access my local network via a pptp tunnel.
Can you access the drive with dd_rescue?

I installed debian/lenny yesterday on my 780G test system.
For installation i use the "expert" modus. I downsized the wxp partition to 250GB and created a 4GB swap partinion and a 246GB system partition.
During installation I only installed the basic system without desktop stuff.
Lenny uses grub2 now, did not know there is a second version available. Seems to be able to use higher resolution graphic modes.
After the installation finished i used aptitude to install "Desktop" and "Gnome-Desktop" stuff. Took ~6min's to get all the packaes from the net over my 16GBit connection. (Had used a 3GBit connection last time so i was impressed).
"Desktop" and "Gnome Desktop" meta packages do not include xdm or gdm, which is a good thing if the card does not work out of the box.
I installed the fglrx packages and module-assistant.
I started module-assistant, made and installed a fglrx-kernel package. Afterwards I simply replaced "vesa" with "fglrx" in the Display section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I started X and fgl_gears (or so) worked and looked accelerated in terms of speed.
All that took aprx. 30minutes.

Then I installed the compiz stuff with synaptic package manager.
My current Desktop system for some strange reason did not boot my lenny install (had it installed on the M3A and moved it to the M2A-VM).
I moved that systems hd to my 780G setup and tried to customize xorg.conf.
In short it did not work and I went tru dozends for forums and tried all types of modifications without luck.
I booted my other desktop's system which succesfully ran compiz on the M3A (not sure if i had used the hd2600xt or the hd2400pro that time).
compiz did not work here also. I also had beryl/emmerald installed on that system before. I was able to start berly but the emerald window decorators did not show up (guess some stuff got overwritten from compiz/compiz-fusion). However if I opened or closed windows i saw 3d-effects.
Will try to sole the problem more systematic later (after at least 8 hrs of office work) today, all above testings where AIGLX related, i have not tried XGL yet.