11.1 RC1 - No compiz, window effects, and broken plasma dash

[speretz]

I am having trouble with 11.1 RC1 window decorations and any of the effects provided in both Gnome and KDE4. KDE4 tells me that the X extentions (xDamage and xComposite) are not available. In version 11.0 I had no such problem, in fact, I could run CCSM with almost every plugin possible (hollywood's got nothing on this setting) beautifully.

Also, in Gnome, I always used the Molecule screensaver which I understand is opengl. On 11.1, it looks different (maybe more crisp?) and is slow as molasses.

I have a Dell precision T3400 with a quad core processor, 4 gigs of ram and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 290. I was hoping that everythign was a problem with my driver but there are no Nvidia repos to update from and I am trying to avoid manual driver installation because it seems like a major pain.

Anyone have a clue what may be going on here?

[supertimorplusfort]

Well, without the Nvidia drivers your hardware can't provide openGL, so openGL uses software emulation. That is really slow.
I installed the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and felt no pain at all. Installation runs via a simple script file. All you need ist gcc, make and your kernel sources (Did I forget anything?). Unfortunately I can't recompile the driver after a kernel update to 2.6.27.7-8-default because there are no kernel-sources provided yet.
So, if you can live without openGL until the final release or until the Nvidia repo is up and you don't want to install from the script, just wait.

[speretz]

Thank you, that makes me feel better. I am fairly new to suse and I'm not very confident in my troubleshooting skills yet and I am glad to know that my suspitions about opengl were accurate.

[speretz]

Ok, so that didn't work. I downloaded the most recent driver from NVidia "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.82-pkg1.run" to no avail. Everything that was broken, still is and it seems like everything is running a little bit more slowly. Anyone have troubleshooting tips?

[supertimorplusfort]

Hmm, strange, for me it worked. After you did the Nvidia config thing at the end of the installation the driver should be properly configured and run the next time you start your X-server. Have a look at the "Device" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There should be something like Driver "nvidia". If it reads "nv" or "fbdev" or whatever the nvidia driver is not in your X config. You can configure X to use the nvidia driver by typing sax2 -r -m 0="nvidia" in that case. You can also run glxgears, it's an openGL test programm.

[supertimorplusfort]

sorry, there is an error in my previous post. It should be sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

[speretz]

Looks like we might be having fun with this one...

The Device section looks good

Section "Device"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 290"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

I also saw the gears so opengl must be working, I wonder why I can't get desktop effects or my plasma dashboard.

[dale14846]

Whats your frame rate it should be pretty high if it only runs at around 34 fps then you don't have any acceleration.

[speretz]

303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.451 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.760 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.960 FPS

[dale14846]

Originally Posted by speretz

303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.451 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.760 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.960 FPS

Nope it should be much higher
I have the new ati driver and to build that I neede the kernel source code which must match
youre running kernel in order to build the module the pae kernel won't work you hve to use the default. If you know where your nvidia install log is look at that.
anybody that has installed the new nvidia driver HALP!