My Desktop Effects have worked fine up until now. I have an nvidia 9400 gt pcie video card with the 180.29 drivers installed. When i try to enable them again i get the following error
"**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’ve googled and seen similar problems on other disto’s and i have found ones on this forum but none that help me. Does anyone else have this problem and what can i do to fix it. I dont know if this was caused by an update or what but i have reinstalled my drivers multiple times and different driver versions but all resulting in the same error above. Cannot switch to XRender either but prefer opengl as it is faster then xrenderAny help is appreciated.
jett713 adjusted his/her AFB on Sunday 10 May 2009 21:36 to write:
>
> My Desktop Effects have worked fine up until now. I have an nvidia 9400
> gt pcie video card with the 180.29 drivers installed. When i try to
> enable them again i get the following error
>
> “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’ve googled and seen similar problems on other disto’s and i have
> found ones on this forum but none that help me. Does anyone else have
> this problem and what can i do to fix it. I dont know if this was caused
> by an update or what but i have reinstalled my drivers multiple times
> and different driver versions but all resulting in the same error above.
> Cannot switch to XRender either but prefer opengl as it is faster then
> xrenderAny help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dwight
>
>
Have you checked that the composite is set to “on” in your xorg.conf??
you probably have but that is the first step I would do.
(or “on”)
included in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Anyway, the compositing probably will switch of on high process load. I’m posted it to KDE forums: LID standby disables Desktop Effects - Page 1.
Good luck.
The only other thing I can think of is that you have an effect option enabled that’s not supported by your card. Or perhaps you should try the drivers from the openSUSE Nvidia website
I myself use compiz-fusion and have no problems at all with my Geforce 4 MX 4000. But what works for one doesn’t always work for another.
It’s just really weird. Desktop effects have worked since day one when i installed 11.1 and that was back when it first came out. A few days ago desktop effects just stopped working out of the blue. I’ll try the one click install drivers and see if that works but i prefer to compile the drivers myself. I’ll report back.
I manually removed my compiled drivers with nvidia-uninstall. Re-installed with the one click method and still get the same error. Does anyone else have any ideas or suggestions?
Did you redo all those commands and stuff I told you to do when you had the manually compiled driver? If not I’d try doing that. Then restart and see if anything changes.
OK i have made some progress but i cant figure out what to do. If I create a new user the desktop effects will work. But if i use my main user account the desktop effects will not work. Any suggestions on what might cause this problem?
Deleting the user’s .kde4 folder should solve it (if you delete it all personal data what you have stored in KDE4 programs (kopete contacts, configured e-mail accounts in kmail, etc. will be deleted).