I’ve installed Suse 11 and updated it over SuSE update. I have installed nVidia legacy drivers (i have GeForce3 Ti500)and recompiled it for my box. Everything went fine and I have 3D good and running. Checked Composite by runnin’ $grep Composite /var/log/Xorg.0.log" and it’s OK.
When I try to enable effects in “simple-ccsm”, check box to enable effects and press “apply”, checked box just unchecks itself.
Hmm… Strange. Last time, I have managed to run 7.8x compiz… somehow… I did had a lot of trouble and at the end I didn’t know what I did when it started to work.
I have reinstalled SuSE11. Didn’t make any updates. Just installed nVidia driver and Compiz from SuSE DVD (7.4.x). After enabling Compiz I’ve got a blank white screen. After pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I’ve got a window for restart, shutdown… and it was appearing and desappearing using Compiz effects.
P.S. On some forums I’ve found this error (white screen after installing compiz) and posters stated there is no solution for this.
I don’t know what repo you are using for KDE4. I’m using the Factory repo and found out how to get compiz working.
In X11/XGL repo is a new catagory. It is opensuse 11 for factory kde4. I used that repo (after disabling the others) and forced an update. Compiz started working - sort of.
I had a gtk script that was running on startup (through the Autostart in systemsettings). I had to remove that. I also had to start emerald through a konsole window the first time(emerald --replace&). After the first manual start of emerald it is working on it’s own now.