Compiz newbie

[matt5432111]

I installed them threw opensuse 1 click nvidia drivers.

[matt5432111]

I tired doing nvidia's instructions right now but when I open software management it says system management is locked by the application with pid 4592 (/us/lib/yast2/bin/y2base close this program before trying again. I clicked retry but it keeps coming up.

[FeatherMonkey]

glxinfo | egrep "string|direct"

If they come back with direct rendering yes, and you have something similar to
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

Move on to the suggestions given, you could also try the wiki for compiz-fusion should have one click. I'm not sure what you added or removed to get to this point.

Just be careful of repos added by one clicks read and decide. Sometimes it is better to just use the once, not necessarily so for compiz but is something to be aware of.

[FeatherMonkey]

Originally Posted by matt5432111

I tired doing nvidia's instructions right now but when I open software management it says system management is locked by the application with pid 4592 (/us/lib/yast2/bin/y2base close this program before trying again. I clicked retry but it keeps coming up.

Close down anything else software package or repo related like update applets etc.. Specifically y2base

[ijbreakey]

Okay. Let's try this again. What I want you to do is remove the Nvidia repositories from your list of repositories then open Software Management and search for Nvidia. Delete the two Nvidia related packages that are selected. Then choose accept and let it uninstall those drivers. Restart your computer. If the graphical user interface doesn't come up then log in and then run

sax2 -r

then reboot and it will.

If you do get the GUI then you're fine. Now it's time to install those Nvidia drivers. Open Yast and select Software Repositories. Choose Add. Select Specify URL and click next. Copy and Paste this URL:

http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/

name it NVIDIA, then click next. It will do its thing and might ask you to import a key so import that. Then click ok.

Next open up Yast Software Management. Search for nvidia.
Make sure there are checks next to these two packages

nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-173.14.18_2.6.27.19_3.2-0.1.
x11-video-nvidiaG01-173.14.18-0.1.

Then click accept. Restart computer and boot into failsafe mode. Once it's booted up, login as root and then run this

sax2 -r

Let it do it's thing, then once it's done run these commands as well one by one:

nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24

Then once everything is done restart by typing this:

shutdown -r now

Boot up normally and you should have a working GUI and be able to use Compiz.

Good Luck,

Ian

[matt5432111]

unable to open monitor... or something like that. screw this Im switching to ubuntu.



Installed and everything works good!

[ijbreakey]

Sorry to hear that. But glad that you have a working system. Good Luck with Ubuntu, perhaps someday you might give openSUSE another try?

As for my instructions, can anybody else verify if there's something wrong with what I told him? I'd like to not make the same mistake again.

Thanks in advance,

Ian

[FeatherMonkey]

Sometimes people want it to just work and now ... They eventually learn that it doesn't just work, and eventually they'll have to work something out regardless of distro. It comes down to what you can put up with and what you can't.

Many new comers have yet to discover that the experienced user is more than likely to try to fit the hardware to the OS. Rather than trying to fit the distro to the hardware.

Not a lot you can do, I just happened to notice in an earlier post the error.

By the time you begin to help people unraveling what they have done, can be tricky and sometimes is the hardest bit. Not to mention sometimes in trying to fix it themselves they break more.

As for why the one click didn't work not sure but there is no error messages to use. Then if multiple package managers open causing the other error, but afaik this is the same regardless of distro, only one app can access the db.

I think they where already trying other distro's before you posted. Some people think if it doesn't work on xx it'll work on xx as it can seem that way but it has many variables. Most of the time if it works on xx it can work on xx it just may take a little more work.

Move on, help the next one you wish to help, and the way you want to.

As for recommending hard way over easy way up to you, personally I think one click for nvidia and compiz should work 95% of the time and those repo's added should do minimal damage. Then if not to go hard way.

But I'm not you do what you want, some recommend hard, some 1 click neither is really better than the other just different ways. OK hard way you get any driver you want to choose but have to compile every kernel upgrade. Nothing to do at kernel update, but easy way has broken on a couple of early releases.

[matt5432111]

I decided to give it another try, lol. Now the gui and everything comes up, but none of the compiz animations or anything works. When I switch to IceWM and hit alt tab it switches the applications differently, but when I switch back to compiz it keeps the same settings as IceWM...

[ijbreakey]

Haha no problem. Glad to have you back. I'll need you to post your xorg.conf so I can see if you followed all those steps correctly.
It's located at /etc/X11

Take Care,

Ian