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On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, James Ausmus wrote: |
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> Hello All- |
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> I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several |
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> different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several |
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> different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), |
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> everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors |
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> or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and |
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> glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I |
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> try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded "Failed to |
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> activate desktop effects using the given configuration options..." |
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> dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the |
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> Advanced tab, but no love. |
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> |
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> Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output. |
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> Anyone have any clues???? |
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> Thanks! |
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> |
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> -James |
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shorten your conf to this and retry: |
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Section "ServerLayout" |
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Identifier "Simple Layout" |
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Screen "Screen 1" 0 0 |
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InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" |
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InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Files" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Module" |
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Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension |
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Load "extmod" |
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Load "glx" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Keyboard1" |
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Driver "kbd" |
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Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" |
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Option "XkbRules" "xorg" |
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Option "XkbModel" "pc104" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "us" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Mouse1" |
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Driver "mouse" |
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Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect |
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Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" |
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Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Monitor" |
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Identifier "HP_L2045w" |
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Option "DPMS" "true" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Device" |
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Identifier "nv8400" |
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Driver "nvidia" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Screen" |
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Identifier "Screen 1" |
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Device "nv8400" |
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Monitor "HP_L2045w" |
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DefaultDepth 24 |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Viewport 0 0 |
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Depth 24 |
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EndSubSection |
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EndSection |
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