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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:21:30
Message-Id: 58965d8a0904221221n1e61a6ddi44db2c19a48ddd08@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects by James Ausmus
1 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hello All-
3 >
4 > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
5 > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
6 > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
7 > everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
8 > or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
9 > glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
10 > try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded "Failed to
11 > activate desktop effects using the given configuration options..."
12 > dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
13 > Advanced tab, but no love.
14 >
15 > Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.
16 >
17 > Anyone have any clues????
18
19 Try to comment out all "Option" lines from the "Device" section of
20 your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver.
21 This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com>