Desktop Effects

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Hi,

Running opensuse 11.

Got a GForce 9600 graphics card. Installed drivers through YaST.

Enabled 3D acceleration is checked.

But when i go to “enable desktop effects” i get:

“Desktop effects are not supported on your current hardware / configuration. Would you like to activate them anyway?”

What do i have to do?

Any changes to my xorg.conf render my system in command line / safe mode and i end having to revert to a previously saved version of the conf.

This is driving me nuts - why is it so hard? SO many posts on getting gnome to work.

Thanks for any help.

Regards, Sam

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Don’t know what you’ve done to your xorg.conf but my advice is to use nvidia-settings to configure your video. Start your favourite Gnome console, enter “sudo nvidia-settings”, enter your password, and off you go. When finished, nvidia-settings will write a xorg.conf which should work. If not, post it here and we’ll see what we can do.

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Hi gminnerup,

Many thanks for your help.

When i run that i get:

"The control display is undefined; please run nvidia-settings --help"

Which isn’t a lot of help. As i’m not sure what i am meant to be doing with this command anyway.

Thank you for your advice.

Regards, Sam

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Post result of

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings

nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Wed May 27 01:59:40 PDT 2009

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2009-06-15T17:17:25+0100.

Version: 8.1

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

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

Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

#Section “Monitor”

Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”

DisplaySize 340 270

HorizSync 31-64

Identifier “Monitor[0]”

ModelName “1680X1050@60HZ”

Option “DPMS”

Option “PreferredMode” “1680x1050”

VendorName “–> VESA”

VertRefresh 50-60

UseModes “Modes[0]”

#EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Mouse[3]” “SendCoreEvents”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
EndSection

Section “Files”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
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”
EndSection

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

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
Option “Xinerama” “0”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Driver “kbd”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “gb”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Driver “evdev”
Option “InputFashion” “Mouse”
Option “Name” “Logitech Media Play Mouse”
Option “Pass” “3”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “evBits” “+1-2”
Option “keyBits” “~272-287”
Option “relBits” “~0-2 ~6 ~8”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse[3]”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

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

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
VendorName “–> VESA”
ModelName “1680X1050@60HZ”
UseModes “Modes[0]”
DisplaySize 340 270
HorizSync 31.0 - 64.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 60.0
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1680x1050”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “DELL E207WFP”
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVidia”
BoardName “GeForce 9600 GT”
Screen 0
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce 9600 GT”
EndSection

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

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Device0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “0”
Option “metamodes” “1680x1050 +0+0; 1400x1050 +0+0; 1280x1024 +0+0; 1280x960 +0+0; 1152x864 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0”
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

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

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In the line before last, it should say:

Option “Composite” “enabled”

That’s all. The driver is installed, the desktop is simply not told to use the Composite extension, needed to have the desktop effects.

You can change this by opening a terminal/console window, and doing
kdesu ‘kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf’

Enter rootpassword when prompted for, change mentioned line, save, reboot and you should be fine.

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Hi Knurpht,

Thank you for that. I will try it. I have edited this file before and changed it to “on” - and it always screwed-up my system.

So i shall try it with “enabled” instead and see if it works.

Regards, Sam

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You’ve just made me more happy than you realise!

Massive thank you.

Yay for desktop effects and wobbly stuff.