Re: [ALUG] Linux Mint Help Please - main

8 Aug 2010

      Martin
I shall look for some info for OpenBox rather than LXDE. I did find someone with the same problem on the same machine using Xubuntu, but there is an option in Xubuntu that resolves this, there isnt one Ican see in LXDE.
The chipset is a SMI LynxEM+ which is Silicon Motion.
I dont think it is a Xorg configuration problem, as I copied someone elses who runs Xubuntu on their 240x and I dont get it in Ubuntu.
It has to be a WM/DE thing.
Simon Royal
PS. Thanks for your help earlier. I have been using it for a couple of hours and it is ripping along without a power supply in.
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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:24:13 +0100
Subject: Re: [ALUG] Linux Mint Help Please
From: mobile.sea@gmail.com
To: simonroyal@live.co.uk
I have no experience with LXDE but try opening up a terminal and typing:
compiz --replace
Assuming compiz is installed that should enable display compositing
BUT here is a quote from a user forum:
##QUOTE###
Does Compiz work on/with LXDE?
Compiz is a window manager. LXDE is a desktop enironment, meaning it's
a collection of software that makes up a 'desktop', including a window
manager, Openbox. Installing Compiz on top of LXDE will simply discard
Openbox in favour of Compiz. Mind you, Compiz will drag som many Gnome
dependencies in with it that you might as well have installed Gnome
but as Troy McClure said to Dolores Montenegro in "Calling All
Quakers": "Have it your way, Baby!!"
###END QUOTE###
Maybe you should google again your display problems but replace LXDE
with Openbox. As I assume the display problems are an Openbox issue
rather than an LXDE issue. It could of course be your xorg
configuration. Is it a SiS graphics chip? You could also google on the
chipset as that might give you some xorg parameters to try?
Good luck.
Martin
On 8 August 2010 17:30, Simon Royal  wrote:
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Martin
Thanks for that. Excellent. I found the option in the BIOS and it has sorted it.
Simon Royal
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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:40:10 +0100
Subject: Re: [ALUG] Linux Mint Help Please
From: mobile.sea@gmail.com
To: simonroyal@live.co.uk
The slow down when running off battery is (from distant memory), a power saving function of those IBM 240s where it underclocks the processor to half it's original speed. I think it can be turned off in the BIOS. Many kernels ago there may have even been a driver in the kernel for this.
Rgds,
Martin
On Aug 8, 2010 12:30 AM, "Simon Royal"  wrote:
Hi
Can someone offer some help on my problems using Linux Mint LXDE?
I installed it on my ThinkPad 240x via another machine. Initially I had some X problems, but I have resolved them. However, I am still getting some odd screen problems where it is drawing multiple icons and buttons - like the maximise/minimise buttons - all over the screen.
You can 'wipe' them off by moving a window, but they randomly pop up.
I found one other person who had this problem, however he was using Xubuntu. I too had the same problems under Xubuntu 9.10, but not under Ubuntu 10.04.
He resolved them by 'enabling display compositing' under xfce 4 settings manager, but Mint Linux uses LXDE and I cannot find anything in the menus for this.
He also mentioned that when running off battery the whole machine was slower - very noticeably slower - than when it is running off power adapter. Everyone else on the forum said this wasn't possible, but I have been experiencing this too.
I would really like to get over this graphics problem without switching distros as I like Mint.
Simon Royal
--- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal.
--- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP Home - Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4.

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