Compiz - nvidia

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Hi there
I have recently converted from Ubuntu to Open Suse 11.2 x64 (gnome). So far I am liking it, but there are some things that aren’t quite so easy as is the case with Ubuntu. One thing is Compiz. I have the latest Nvidia drivers and composite enabled (created the xorg.conf file manually using SaX2), but I just get “desktop effects are not supported” when I go into ‘control center’ and ‘desktop effects’. I have tried various hacks found here and there but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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various hacks? Thats rather worrisome. I hope when they did NOT work you put everything back EXACTLY as it was before.

Can you do some quality checks?

Take a look inside /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and confirm it is the ‘nvidia’ and not the ‘nv’ nor ‘vesa’ driver that you have running. You can do that with:

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and look for many occurences of something like " (==) NVIDIA(0) " or " (==) NVIDIA(0) "

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Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

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Hi
So when you ran sax2, was the 3d checkbox marked and greyed out? Are
you using the nvidia driver direct from their site or the one from the
repositories?

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Thanks for the replies.
Here is the xorg.conf;

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2010-06-25T11:23:22+0200.

Version: 8.1

Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005

Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users&gt;

Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dbe”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “kbd” will be disabled unless ‘Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”’

is set in “ServerFlags” section.

Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “no”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “mouse” will be disabled unless ‘Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”’

is set in “ServerFlags” section.

Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “13”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Microsoft Nano Transceiver v1.0”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
DisplaySize 331 207
HorizSync 30-94
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “HT009 154WU2 LCD MONITOR”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1920x1200”
VendorName “LGD”
VertRefresh 43-60
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1920x1200” “1900x1200” “1920x1080” “1600x1200” “1680x1050” “1600x1024” “1600x1000” “1400x1050” “1600x900” “1280x1024” “1440x900” “1280x960” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1920x1200” “1900x1200” “1920x1080” “1600x1200” “1680x1050” “1600x1024” “1600x1000” “1400x1050” “1600x900” “1280x1024” “1440x900” “1280x960” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1920x1200” “1900x1200” “1920x1080” “1600x1200” “1680x1050” “1600x1024” “1600x1000” “1400x1050” “1600x900” “1280x1024” “1440x900” “1280x960” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1920x1200” “1900x1200” “1920x1080” “1600x1200” “1680x1050” “1600x1024” “1600x1000” “1400x1050” “1600x900” “1280x1024” “1440x900” “1280x960” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “Quadro NVS 160M”
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
VendorName “NVIDIA”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “on”

tried with “true”, but didnt help

EndSection

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Guess this explains it?

From the xorg.log file;
(EE) Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.(EE) NVIDIA GLX: No supported server extension ABI found(II) UnloadModule: “glx”

Although, it says the following too;

(II) Module nvidia: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 195.36.15 Thu Mar 11 22:01:49 PST 2010
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
() NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (–) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
() Jun 25 11:42:55 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) Jun 25 11:42:55 NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) Jun 25 11:42:55 NVIDIA(0): enabled.

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Interesting.

Clearly the NVIDIA driver is installed, and it is being used. But the log file is suggesting you re-install the driver.

Perhaps you should remove the proprietary NVIDIA driver and re-install it as suggested by the log file.

I’m curious, do you have a stock kernel ? ie what is the output of:

uname -a
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Composite is not enabled. Instead of writing those options yourself, you should use tools such as SaX2 or nvidia-xconfig that do so to avoid typos or (as in this case) wrong options.

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"

…should rather be…

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"

Use the following commands to set composite and some other necessary options:

nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --allow-glx-with-composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
nvidia-xconfig --damage-events

…then restart the X-server.