[opensuse] Cannot enable desktop effects with nvidia video card
I am using openSuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2.4. When I try to enable desktop effects from "Cofigure Desktop" app I see the message: Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available. Could someone tell what else should I install ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I am using openSuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2.4. When I try to enable desktop effects from "Cofigure Desktop" app I see the message:
Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available.
Could someone tell what else should I install ?
Probably nothing... it's likely just an xorg.conf setting. Check this part of your xorg.conf file Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on" EndSection and make sure Composite is set to "on" instead of "off" C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:19:34 Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I am using openSuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2.4. When I try to enable desktop effects from "Cofigure Desktop" app I see the message:
Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available.
Could someone tell what else should I install ?
Assuming you have the nvidia driver installed you can check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the following. Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 16 July 2009 13:33:07 Graham Anderson wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:19:34 Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I am using openSuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2.4. When I try to enable desktop effects from "Cofigure Desktop" app I see the message:
Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available.
Could someone tell what else should I install ?
Assuming you have the nvidia driver installed you can check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the following.
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on"
Yes indeed I had "Composite" "off". However, from sax2 I have not been able to change this, but only by manually editing the xorg.conf file. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on"
Yes indeed I had "Composite" "off". However, from sax2 I have not been able to change this, but only by manually editing the xorg.conf file.
That is the only way I've found as well. Interestingly, on a new/clean install (ie on a system that has not had a xorg.conf around over many updates/upgrades of the nVidia driver) Composite is set to on instead of off. I've only (so far) seen this Composite off thing on older installs or installs that have had older nVidia drivers at some point C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 12:47 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on"
Yes indeed I had "Composite" "off". However, from sax2 I have not been able to change this, but only by manually editing the xorg.conf file.
That is the only way I've found as well.
Interestingly, on a new/clean install (ie on a system that has not had a xorg.conf around over many updates/upgrades of the nVidia driver) Composite is set to on instead of off. I've only (so far) seen this Composite off thing on older installs or installs that have had older nVidia drivers at some point
Did you try "sax2 -r". I believe that is supposed to configured X from scratch without considering the previous configuration. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on"
Yes indeed I had "Composite" "off". However, from sax2 I have not been able to change this, but only by manually editing the xorg.conf file.
That is the only way I've found as well.
Interestingly, on a new/clean install (ie on a system that has not had a xorg.conf around over many updates/upgrades of the nVidia driver) Composite is set to on instead of off. I've only (so far) seen this Composite off thing on older installs or installs that have had older nVidia drivers at some point
C.
Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 12:47 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on"
Yes indeed I had "Composite" "off". However, from sax2 I have not been able to change this, but only by manually editing the xorg.conf file.
That is the only way I've found as well.
Interestingly, on a new/clean install (ie on a system that has not had a xorg.conf around over many updates/upgrades of the nVidia driver) Composite is set to on instead of off. I've only (so far) seen this Composite off thing on older installs or installs that have had older nVidia drivers at some point
Did you try "sax2 -r". I believe that is supposed to configured X from scratch without considering the previous configuration.
The older drivers had the 3D off by default. I used an older Nvidia card on a second older Dell computer. To enable 3D: Log in to konsole and the following commands: su - nvidia-xconfig --composite nvidia-xconfig --render-accel nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24 Check out: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#openSUSE_10.3 Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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