OS 11.0, OpenGL screensavers not full screen

velocidex · June 21, 2008, 1:17am

Hi all,

After a default installation of opensuse, then installing the nVidia driver, and then enabling the screensavers, I find that the openGL screensavers do not run full screen, but instead run in a box in the top left corner (probably 1/4 screen), with the rest of the screen white.

Does anyone know a solution to this?

user · June 21, 2008, 9:38pm

velocidex,

works fine with the driver from the NVidia repo on my 7600GT.
Make sure the driver used in your xorg.conf is “nvidia”
Try running the installer from the NVidia site instead of the one from the repo. There have been reports it is working better in some cases.

Uwe

snakeeyes · June 21, 2008, 10:57pm

Hi, I have that same problem as well and am planning to make a bug report.

So once I make it then please confirm it.

I will post here with the link.

snakeeyes · June 21, 2008, 11:02pm

Here is the bug report, please confirm it:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402522

velocidex · June 22, 2008, 12:22am

I can confirm that nvidia is already listed as the driver in xorg.conf

HRGargi · June 22, 2008, 2:38am

confirmed on bugzilla.

snakeeyes · June 22, 2008, 9:05am

Alright is everyone sure its cause of nvidia, anyone with a nvidia card having this? Cause they have close the bug here:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402522&GoAheadAndLogIn=1

I can’t re open it till someone without a nvidia card says he or she has this problem.

If anyone with a webcam has this problem, then please confirm it:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402242

user · June 22, 2008, 3:52pm

On 06/22/2008 snakeeyes wrote:
> I can’t re open it till someone without a nvidia card says he or she
> has this problem.

The reason for closing the bug was, they don’t fix problems with the proprietary NVidia driver. The advice was contacting NVidia.

Did you try the NVidia installer from their page, as I suggested earlier in the thread?

Uwe

snakeeyes · June 22, 2008, 4:30pm

the thing is it might not be related to nvidia but if it is then I will wait for the next beta driver then

snakeeyes · July 5, 2008, 9:41am

Alright I have to open this bug again but has anyone noticed it only happens in kde 4 and not 3.5.9 or gnome

user · July 5, 2008, 6:12pm

I have experienced this on both nvidia and ati cards. Nvidia geforce4 and the ati is radeon 9000

snakeeyes · July 5, 2008, 6:24pm

is it only kde 4 or does this happen on all desktops?

user · July 5, 2008, 6:58pm

Only with kde4.

snakeeyes · July 5, 2008, 7:22pm

alright then I will reopen it but do u have a novell bugzilla account cause people will have to give trace back and stuff…