Compiz in 11.2

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Hello Folks,

Great job on 11.2. Snappy, beautiful and stable.
I am having some problem with compiz. When I try to activate compiz from ‘Desktop Settings’, it says, ‘Compositing is not supported on your system.Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available.’ Any ideas what is this about.

I did recompile and install nvidia drivers. I am running 64 bit OS.

Thanks in advance.

Nittin

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Is this kde or gnome?
What video card do you have?

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Sorry, I see nvidia now

You say you installed the driver - was that manually?
Did you also run sax2 -r from a su terminal?

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caf4926 wrote:

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> Sorry, I see nvidia now
>
> You say you installed the driver - was that manually?
> Did you also run sax2 -r from a su terminal?
>
I finally got this working. I deinstalled all compiz rpms. still had above
message about XDamage and XComposite after a reboot. Then found the
following link:

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=10337

I followed the instructions for change to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Deleted:

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “off”
EndSection

Added:

Section “Extensions”
Option “Damage” “true”
Option “Composite” “true”
EndSection

Most effects I select now work.

Hope this helps.

Russ
[openSUSE 11.2 (8 2.6.31.5-0.1-default x86_64] KDE 4.3.2 release 2, Intel
Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)

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Thanks a ton. It works for me.

Thank You

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hitechchef wrote:

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> Thanks a ton. It works for me.
>
> Thank You
>
Your welcome, not sure if that’s a bug or something intended.

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Russ
[openSUSE 11.2 (8 2.6.31.5-0.1-default x86_64] KDE 4.3.2 release 2, Intel
Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)