[opensuse-kde] opensuse 11.2, kde 4.5.1, nvidia (proprietary) and desktop effects
After updating to kde 4.5.1, desktop effects stopped. I see that if I request XRender instead of OpenGL, some effects return. But most are disabled. Checking that some checks should not be done makes no difference. Previous to this update, all was working fine. I have: kdebase4-4.5.1-178.1.i586 and the rest of the kde that comes with that, as well as x11-video-nvidiaG02-256.53-16.1.i586 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-256.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-15.1.i586 The repos are as suggested on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories At the time of this e-mail, the repos are listed under "Factory (KDE SC 4.5)". At the time I did the update (Friday) I am sure it was not called "SC" - that was a different heading. Life in the KDE fast lane. I did not see anything unexpected listed in log files. Oddly, glxgears says that the RENDER extension is not enabled, even though the X startup log file and the xdpyinfo command both claim that it is enabled... This has happened on both systems where I have installed this update. Both are different nvidia hardware. Anyone else seen this? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Op maandag 20 september 2010 08:26:03 schreef Roger Oberholtzer:
After updating to kde 4.5.1, desktop effects stopped. I see that if I request XRender instead of OpenGL, some effects return. But most are disabled. Checking that some checks should not be done makes no difference. Previous to this update, all was working fine.
I have:
kdebase4-4.5.1-178.1.i586
and the rest of the kde that comes with that, as well as
x11-video-nvidiaG02-256.53-16.1.i586 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-256.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-15.1.i586
The repos are as suggested on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories
At the time of this e-mail, the repos are listed under "Factory (KDE SC 4.5)". At the time I did the update (Friday) I am sure it was not called "SC" - that was a different heading. Life in the KDE fast lane.
I did not see anything unexpected listed in log files. Oddly, glxgears says that the RENDER extension is not enabled, even though the X startup log file and the xdpyinfo command both claim that it is enabled...
This has happened on both systems where I have installed this update. Both are different nvidia hardware.
Anyone else seen this?
Is it really the update to KDE 4.5.1 that is causing the trouble? There was also a kernel update before the weekend and that has caused me trouble (the nvidia driver was not working anymore). Reinstalling the drivers solved the problem for me. Greetings, Cor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 20 September 2010 08:26:03 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I did not see anything unexpected listed in log files. Oddly, glxgears says that the RENDER extension is not enabled, even though the X startup log file and the xdpyinfo command both claim that it is enabled...
I had something similar recently. I recently noticed that after installing the proprietary drivers, the glx extensions were failing to load for me. After a bit of poking around (glxinfo etc) I found that some of the extensions were not in a location that my xorg.conf config was searching. I'm not sure if the location of some of the extensions has changed with more recent nvidia driver releases but here's my "Files" section of my xorg.conf. Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection Cheers, Graham -- “What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” - Christopher Hitchens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 20 September 2010 08:26:03 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
After updating to kde 4.5.1, desktop effects stopped.
Firstly compare the OpenGL vendor and renderer strings output by glxinfo to the blacklist entries in ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc. If that doesn't give you a smoking gun, try enabling debug output with kdebugdialog and restarting kwin in a shell (kwin --replace) to see its reasoning (lines with KWin::CompositingPrefs in them). In 4.5.0 some effects that required hardware shader support worked although they were not supposed to, because a software fallback took over, but AFAIK this only affected the intel driver. I think this loophole was closed for 4.5.1 because the Mesa fallback was slow. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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