Originally Posted by
sanderj
FWIW: I just activated XMir on my 13.10
Code:
sudo apt-get install unity-system-compositor
sudo restart lightdm
and after the fresh login I have a functional desktop (not anymore the annoying second mouse pointer) and:
Code:
sander@HPtje:~$ grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 1552.710] (II) LoadModule: "xmir"
[ 1552.711] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libxmir.so
[ 1552.716] (II) Module xmir: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 1552.726] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 has no monitor section
[ 1552.726] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output XMIR-1
[ 1552.726] (II) intel(0): Modeline "XMIR mode of death"x60.0 72.00 1366 1408 1440 1520 768 771 781 790 +hsync -vsync (47.4 kHz eP)
[ 1552.726] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 connected
[ 1552.727] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 using initial mode XMIR mode of death
sander@HPtje:~$
sander@HPtje:~$ grep -i loadmodule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 1552.710] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 1552.710] (II) LoadModule: "xmir"
[ 1552.719] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 1552.719] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 1552.720] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 1552.720] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 1552.723] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 1552.723] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 1552.723] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 1552.727] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 1552.760] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 1552.768] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
sander@HPtje:~$
sander@HPtje:~$ ps afx | grep unity-system-compositor
12258 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor.sleep --from-dm-fd 11 --to-dm-fd 14 --vt 7
12261 tty7 Ssl+ 0:11 | \_ /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor --from-dm-fd 11 --to-dm-fd 14 --vt 7
14394 pts/8 S+ 0:00 | | \_ grep --color=auto unity-system-compositor
sander@HPtje:~$
That means XMir is correctly running, doesn't it?
FWIW: Intel CPU & GPU.
Another way to validate that mir is working:
Open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t
THEN
type in 'top' at the command prompt. You should see u-s-c in rack.
Code:
%Cpu(s): 4.5 us, 2.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1025960 total, 763148 used, 262812 free, 29872 buffers
KiB Swap: 1301500 total, 0 used, 1301500 free, 394424 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2136 ventrica 20 0 111m 30m 6816 S 6.3 3.0 0:00.19 evolution-calen
1127 root 20 0 99.4m 25m 13m S 2.7 2.5 0:05.72 Xorg
1009 root 20 0 195m 26m 9376 S 1.0 2.6 0:02.68 unity-system-co