Hi,
i want to use compiz on my gnome desktop opensuse 11.1
But everytime i want to enable compiz, i get the message : Desktop effects are not supported on your current hardware / configuration. Would you like to activate them anyway?
Why aren’t desktop effects not supported and what do i have to do to make it work?
Probably because you have not installed the graphics diver or don’t have hardware support for effects.
tell us about your graphics hardware and any steps you have taken if any to install drivers.
I have a Nvidia Geforce 6100 AsRock graphic card. With a Samsung Syncmaster 910MP Monitor.
And i installed nvidia driver from the opensuse website
Go to Yast Hardware Graphics and Monitor
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What is yours showing.?
If you open a terminal and do:
glxinfo
post the first part of the output
also try:
glxgears
What happens?
This is what happens:
/home/Nathan/Monitor
/home/Nathan/1.png
/home/Nathan/2.png
This is what happens:
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in your second screen shot your still using the mesa drivers not the nvidia drivers
did you add the nvidia repo?
When i type the codes in now, this happens:
Hey Knor,
I used to have this problem on an older version of OpenSUSE. As Havoc pointed out, from your second screenshot, the vendor of your graphics driver is Mesa, as opposed to Nvidia. Although you downloaded the driver from the OpenSUSE website, you may not have the Nvidia repository added on your system. It’s actually pretty easy to add the repository because OpenSUSE by default has it as a default community repository. Simply following the steps below:
Once you add the repository, the next step is to update your Nvidia driver (or at least check if it is). To do so, open a terminal window and run the following command and enter the root password of your system when prompted:
su -c ‘zypper up x11-video-nvidiaG02’
If you receive the message “No update candidate for ‘x11-video-nvidiaG02’.” then you have the most recent version of the Nvidia driver package. This terminal snippet above assumes you have a pretty recent video card (6xxx or greater) because you will have to change the name of the package if so. If you receive a message of “Package ‘x11-video-nvidiaG02’ is not installed.” just let me know and I will help you find the name of the package for your driver. Otherwise, if you have any more general questions about installing drivers, this page and feel free to ask anymore questions you have.
Hope this helps! 
Hey Unseen-Ghost,
Is there somewhere a manaul to get the nicest effects of compiz?
It works well now.
Thanks for the advice!!
Hi,
The compiz wiki should help you learn more about compiz and all of its effects.
Take Care,
Ian
Hi again,
Compiz worked well om my desktop.
But i really want the special effects from compiz fusion.
So i tryed to install compiz fusion from the site of opensuse.
But every time i try to install it, i get the following screen:
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I hope sommebody is understanding it, otherwise i try to translate it.
I marked 2 times the first part by hand, and installed it.
But now nothing of compiz is working anymore.
What did i do wrong?
Hi,
could you please open up a terminal and post the output of:
rpm -qa --last "*compiz*"
It’s very likely you have mixed compiz packages.
Take Care,
Ian
This is the result:
nathan@linux-olf9:~> rpm -qa --last “compiz”
compizconfig-settings-manager-0.8.2-3.2 di 07 jul 2009 18:37:04 CEST
python-compizconfig-0.8.2-2.1 di 07 jul 2009 18:36:59 CEST
compiz-plugins-extra-0.8.2-1.6 di 07 jul 2009 18:36:54 CEST
compiz-plugins-main-0.8.2-9.57 di 07 jul 2009 18:36:28 CEST
compiz-manager-0.0.1_git080201-58.1 di 07 jul 2009 18:35:10 CEST
libcompizconfig-0.8.2-8.1 di 07 jul 2009 18:35:09 CEST
compiz-0.8.2-79.5 di 07 jul 2009 18:35:01 CEST
compiz-gnome-0.8.2-79.5 di 07 jul 2009 18:34:54 CEST
compiz-branding-openSUSE-0.8.2-79.5 di 07 jul 2009 18:34:30 CEST
Alright, well, for one thing, you’re missing emerald. So open Yast Software Manager and search for emerald. You’ll want to install compiz-emerald-0.8.2 (something to that effect). Then in the compiz-config settings manager make sure Window Decoration is checked. Then click into it, and next to the line “command” type
emerald --replace
Then close the compiz-config settings manager and try to enable desktop effects again.
Take Care,
Ian