On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:48 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:34 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Roger,
/dev/nvidiactl is a tool for individual (non-root) users to control the function of their NVIDIA card. To make it accessible to everybody I set the access mode to 666.
Try it out - I think that could fix your desktop effects problem.
Unfortunately, no. The ONLY desktop effect I get is when I click on the top border of a window, it becomes semi-transparent. It stays this way while I move it. Nothing more. I have tried a new user just in case something is odd in my directory. Nothing works.
I am convinced the window manager is the problem. It is kwin (4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4) "release 2"). The card is an NVIDIA "GeForce 9400 GT/PCI/SSE2" running NVIDIA driver "3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.14".
You could be right, it could be the window manager or something else in the KDE. If you don't mind wasting some time, potentially, you might try playing with the newest KDE, KDE 4.3 (OpenSuSE has it under "Factory", I think).
I was thinking of doing that. I would like to sort out the set of repositories that should work together as a unit: X11 Qt KDE For a new NVIDIA card supported by the current NVIDIA driver, should X11 be Xorg or Xgl? Or both? There is the one-click install, but that does not obsolete older repositories. Or even change the priority of the stuff installed to be greater than whatever was already there. I have: /repositories/X11:/Compiz/openSUSE_11.1/ /repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.1/ /repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42/ /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42/ /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.1/ /repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory/ http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1 All with a priority of 99. The 11.1 original distribution and updates have a priority of 100. Anyone have this sorted? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org