Its that time again folks. I searched the forums and tried some of the fixes suggested but they didnt seem to work or i didnt understand them.
I have opensuse 11.1 64Bit
Core 2 Duo @ 3GHz
2 NVIDIA 7900 GS w/ sli bridge
1TB Barracuda SATA
500GB Barracuda SATA
350GB Barracuda SATA
4GB DDR 2 RAM.
The problem i have is i cant seem to be able to get compiz fusion working on opensuse 11.1. Im running Gnome ( the new kde has its own composite manager ) and i have the composite option turned to “on” in my xorg.conf file. I installed compiz fusion from the community repos, the latest version, and i compiled my own nvidia driver ( using the latest version from the nvidia site ). Any help would be awesome. Thank you in advance!!
Hi,
When you say you can’t get it working, does this mean no effects work whatsoever, or that only some effects work, or you have no window decorations? Please be a little bit more specific.
Ian
It means, when i turn it on the window decorator bar is gone, and no effects are in place. I tried re-installing the driver afterwards ( it was the fix in 11.0 ) but that didnt work so…any advice?
Hi,
Windows Decorations are easy to fix. Open up the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM). I guess I probably should have asked what version of compiz you were using. You can get this by opening up terminal and typing
compiz --version
Regardless, under Window Effects, if there isn’t already, put a check next to Window Decoration. Click into Window Decoration and where it says command type
emerald --replace
Then restart and see if that’ll clean up the missing title bar part.
Hope this helps,
Ian
And also could you post your xorg.conf on here?
It’s located at /etc/X11/
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-04-10T00:07:54-0700.
#
# 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 "Files"
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"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "evdev"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Pass" "3"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftnek4k"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "evBits" "+1"
Option "keyBits" "~1-255 ~352-511"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
DisplaySize 408 255
HorizSync 30-83
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "HP W1907"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"
VendorName "HWP"
VertRefresh 43-76
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1440x900" 106.00 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce 7900 GS"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
What worked for me (same problem, about the same specs) was to delete all c-f and re-instaal the Git version, that did it.
Hi,
First you’ll need to add AIGLX to your xorg.conf.
hit alt+f2 then type
gnomesu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Add this under the “ServerLayout” section.
Option "aiglx" "true"
Also, under the Section “Module” erase this
Load "dri"
Save it then try running these commands as root in a terminal.
su
enter root password to become root.
nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
Then restart your computer and see if the effects work.
Good Luck,
Ian
alright, so i did what you told me, reinstalled the driver at the end ( cause x found no screens ) and compiz works now, but emerald doesnt give me window decorations i had to select metacity. But now however, sound doesnt work! This had never happened so i dont know how to fix it. Any input on how to fix both these issues?
Hi,
Not sure on the sound. You’ll have to wait for caf4926 to pick this thread up or post a new thread with your sound problem.
Make sure that CompizConfig Settings Manager has Window Decorations on and that the command under that plugin is
emerald --replace
Good Luck,
Ian
After a lot of things i got everything working.