hi , i am sort of newbie to linux,i recently installed opensuse 11.2. i also installed nvidia card via 1 click install…
after install compositing didnt work,it said “someother program is blocking it ,type alt ctrl f12 to enable” after i hit that,my screen was stuck at blinking cursor,
so rebooted went to init 3, typed sax2 ,it showed me the options ,it passed the test screen,but after reboot didnt work
rebooted and hit sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia,again showed me option ,but didnt work.
everytime i login i see nvidia logo flashing up,but after login compostiting is still not enabled ,i have no idea what is wrong help please…
my other option is to type nvidia-xconfig to
my config,
nvidia 6150 card,opensuse 11.2 32 bit,amd turion,
Maybe compositing is enabled in your window manager and you should rather disable it because it doesn’t work well with that graphic card. I have a couple machines with GF6150 (on board). On those machines I only get garbage with compositing enabled either in KDE or Metacity (specially in KDE).
i used compositing on many occasions without any hitch, infact i used opensuse from 11.1 and updated to 4.3 kde and everytime it was perfect(well not kde 4.1), i even played games like smoking guns,
this problem occured out of the blue few days back and since i had little stability issues, wanted to do a clean install of 11.2 and still the problem persists.
my main grouse is that i am so used to having slick kwin, i’m having hard time not having compositing.:mad:
i set the kwrite option to true, but after reboot it keeps getting back to false,
and opengl could not be used for compositing,is there any driver confliction?,am i using the proper driver?,because the sysinfo identifies my card as NVIDIA geforce go 6150 , and for the driver it shows “unknown”.
Of course, it will edit the profile of the user running the command. If you do that as root and login as user, not seeing any change is normal.
To be more precise typing:
is the equivalent of replacing the line Enabled=false with Enabled=true in the [Compositing] section of the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc. Those *rc files use the same syntax as Windows .ini files.
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 190.53 Tue Dec 8 20:47:42 PST 2009
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 190.53 Tue Dec 8 19:16:02 PST 2009
(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)
(**) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 6150 (C51) at PCI:0:5:0 (GPU-0)
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.51.28.53.15
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce Go 6150 at PCI:0:5:0:
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0)
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): 310.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): LPL (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x768"; removing.
(WW) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x720"; removing.
(WW) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x600"; removing.
(WW) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1024x600"; removing.
(WW) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "768x576"; removing.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): "1280x800"
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): "1024x768"
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): "800x600"
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): "640x480"
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 800
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (98, 96); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): option
(==) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x800"
(II) Jan 24 20:13:11 NVIDIA(0): Initialized OpenGL Acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
(II) Jan 24 20:13:11 NVIDIA(0): Initialized X Rendering Acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "PreferredMode" is not used
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First off, you have not identified what specific card you are using. Second, it would be much more relevant to see a print out of the systeminfo display section. Does it correctly identify your card and what driver does it show?
I recently did the same thing you did, the one-click thing after swapping out an old, and not linux friendly ATI card for an Nvidia card (7950gt). One of the problems with one-click is it does not give any feedback on the install or what to do next. Even windoze will ask, in order for the changes to take effect you must reboot. Do you want to reboot now. Oh, yes. Windoze is for sleepy heads. I knew I needed to reboot and did that. Everything has worked great since then.
SO, give us the exact card model and the system info. I am sure this can be fixed.
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 190.53 Tue Dec 8 20:47:42 PST 2009
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
**(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 190.53** Tue Dec 8 19:16:02 PST 2009
(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)
(**) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): **NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 6150 (C51) at PCI:0:5:0 (GPU-0)**
(--) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
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He’s using the latest nvidia driver. And rpm -qa | grep nvidia would/should output (on a 64 bit system) :
nevermind,not planning to use the card,i reinstalled 64 bit system, will be content with nv for now, will wait for the next driver release and give it a try then…
According to your logs, everything looks fine. That’s probably why nobody could give you an answer. You are using the Nvidia proprietary driver. You have te latest version installed, the Nvidia kernel module is loaded (type : lsmod | grep nvidia to make sure ) and the driver is used by Xorg.
I have the same gfx card on one machine and, as I already mentionned I guess, I do NOT use compositing on that one. Unfortunately I cannot test yet since it has a dual monitor and Xinerama, and that’s definitely not going to work with compositing. But more likely this gfx card (probaly an onboard chip according to that :
(II) Jan 24 20:13:09 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 6150 (C51) at PCI:0:5:0 (GPU-0)
is just not good enough for compositing.
You will gain nothing by using the nv driver.
yep,i am pretty happy now, well i can adjust with no compositing, nv does its duty quite well…
one thing i noticed and which was my main problem with previous install(32 bit) was that flash sucked, it hangs on full screen. needed to wait around 2 minutes or so just to exit full screen.
But the 64 bit version is pretty good, good response, :)well theres only 2 or 3 second delay from exiting full screen,but am happy since i use this comp mainly for the net,and with out full screen flash is a like helllll…
I was sceptical initially because i have only 1.5 Gigs of memory,i know it wouldnt make much difference in speed, but i notice much more stability from native 64 bit flash.
another quick question, my 32 bit system used a baseline RAM of about 200MB on regular startup which was very impressive and :O. And my 64 bit uses around 300MB.is there always that much difference between these two.
yes ,its an on board graphic card with 128 MB of shared memory, But i d say its one hell of an ‘on board card’, better than those of intel and ATI, few years back i even played call of duty 2 and that too with a puny 512 MB of system ram,overall pretty good one from nvidia.
Yes. 64 bit instructions are twice bigger. It doesn’t mean that a 64 bit system will use for every task the double amount of memory, but what you describe is perfectly normal.
hey thanks Knurpht, I will give it a try may be at a very much later version may be after 195.x.x .I have compiled it through the hard way few times when i was in opensuse 11.1,and many times i did go for the 1 click install.and believe me all the 1 clicks worked perfectly for me,except for one time (i may have done more than five time :).,i was distro shopping,difficult to find the correct one for newbies)
but even in 11.2 i did was 1 click and it installed,this failure of graphics card was sudden, I was browsing and suddenly it turned off compositing,and i tried one other distro before putting suse back,it was sabayon and yes the same result.
overall am more ‘at home’ with suse, maybe because i used it long enough to tweak it. I will stick with suse as always will keep waiting for the next release…