I'm trying to get desktop effects to work in KDE 4.1.3 (openSUSE 11.1 x86_64) and not having much luck. I'm curious if any of you have have similar hardware and are having any luck. I have it working on a laptop with a 256 MB nVidia card, and it runs really slick. But in the desktop, I've got a DELL Optiplex GX620, which came with an ATI Radeon X600 video card. I've not had good luck with ATI on Linux... openSUSE setup detected the card and installed drivers that are fairly satisfactory for 2D. With the desktop effects in mind, I went to ati.amd.com and downloaded the latest Linux x86_64 driver (i.e ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run). Once the ATI driver had installed, I ran 'aticonfig --initial' as root and rebooted. I tried enabling KDE 4's desktop effects and got this: -------------- Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values. Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type. -------------- I've checked my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, which doesn't show any sort of error that I can see. The aticonfig command reports that there is a 'fglrx' section, and I can attest to that. This is what I have in my xorg.conf file (among a few other things, of course): -------------- Section "Device" Identifier "Device[0]" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE)" Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection -------------- At this point I'm thinking that maybe my video card isn't supported, I am missing some dependencies of some kind, or that my xorg.conf file needs some tweaking. Anyone willing to take a shot at this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org