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#1

In systemconfiguration/Desktop/DesktopEffets, I check the checkbox to enable desktop effects, click on Apply and get this error message:

Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.

I tried all the various options, with the same result. Any hint as to what is wrong?

I have Xorg 8.1, on my opensuse 11 mobo with KDE 4.1.

#2

I’m having the same problem. Did you ever fix yours?

#3

As you can see on this thread, I received no help, so I still have that problem. Let me know if you fix it

#4

Thought to bump this thread rather then starting a new one. I have the latest ATI drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 for OpenSuse 11.1 (installed them by running the .run file but that didn’t fix the issue so I used the hard way but that didn’t work either). Same error when I try to enable desktop effects, which makes me think it’s not the video drivers. I tried changing Advanced Options such as Compositing Type, Direct Rendering, but no good. Does anyone know what’s wrong and how that can be fixed like, I’d really like to see these effects as well. Thank you.

#5

I checked again and I only seem to get this message for attempting to start effects with OpenGL Compositing type, but it works fine with XRender. OpenGL is much faster so I want to use that one instead… why doesn’t the OpenGL compositing type work and gives this message?

#6

I still have

Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.

whether I try openGl or Xrender makes no difference …

#7

I have the same problem here. ATI 4870.

Maybe manual xorg.conf configuration?

#8

this sucks, I had to create an account in a forum that I’ll probably never be back but anyway, the solution is to switch to ati opengl interface, I do it through eselect in my gentoo:

with the command

# eselect opengl list

it list you all the posibilities, to me, it shows this:

Available OpenGL implementations:
  [1]   ati *
  [2]   xorg-x11

to select the ati option i only have to

# eselect opengl set ati

and restart the X (ctrl+alt+back_space)

and i can set all the effects that i want.

have a happy day you all! :slight_smile:

#9

Hi, where do I find eselect? yast2 software manager can’t find it.

#10

He’s on Gentoo (another linux distro). openSUSE does not have ‘eselect’.

And this is a thread started last year, so if you have a problem, start a new thread.

#11

Thought to bump this thread rather then starting a new one. I have the
latest ATI drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 for OpenSuse 11.1
(installed them by running the .run file but that didn’t fix the issue
so I used the ‘hard way’ (http://en.opensuse.org/ATI#The_Hard_Way) but
that didn’t work either). Same error when I try to enable desktop
effects, which makes me think it’s not the video drivers. I tried
changing Advanced Options such as Compositing Type, Direct Rendering,
but no good. Does anyone know what’s wrong and how that can be fixed
like, I’d really like to see these effects as well. Thank you.

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#12

I checked again and I only seem to get this message for attempting to
start effects with OpenGL Compositing type, but it works fine with
XRender. OpenGL is much faster so I want to use that one instead… why
doesn’t the OpenGL compositing type work and gives this message?

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#13

I still have

Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration
options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced
options, especially changing the compositing type.

whether I try openGl or Xrender makes no difference …

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#14

I have the same problem here. ATI 4870.

Maybe manual xorg.conf configuration?

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