Hello, One of our machines has the following card (as reported by lspci): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev a1)
I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both OpenGL and XRender for compositing option. Is this a known problem ? Is there a website that lists what nvidia cards can use the full 3D of nouveau and desktop effect (esp. with KDE) ?
I have another machine that uses nvidia GeForce GTX 260 that works just fine with F14 and desktop effect (using XRender). Do those cards use different driver?
I hope I am asking the right list here. Thank you.
AC
Armelius Cameron wrote:
One of our machines has the following card (as reported by lspci): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev a1)
I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both OpenGL and XRender for compositing option. Is this a known problem ? Is there a website that lists what nvidia cards can use the full 3D of nouveau and desktop effect (esp. with KDE) ?
I have another machine that uses nvidia GeForce GTX 260 that works just fine with F14 and desktop effect (using XRender). Do those cards use different driver?
It's the same driver, but there are different code paths for different chipsets. There might be some problem with the XRender implementation on the 8600GT. You can try Fedora 15 Beta (try the KDE Live image if you don't want to install F15 yet). Fedora 15 Beta will be officially released today. (The final Fedora 15 release is currently scheduled for May 24.)
For OpenGL support, you can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, but I don't think the version in Fedora 14 will work with KWin. Fedora 15 ships OpenGL support for Nouveau by default; to my knowledge, whether KWin desktop effects work with it hasn't been tested yet. (Again, you should be able to test it with the Fedora 15 Beta KDE Live image.)
Kevin Kofler
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:11:10 am Kevin Kofler wrote:
Armelius Cameron wrote:
One of our machines has the following card (as reported by lspci): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev a1)
I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both OpenGL and XRender for compositing option.
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It's the same driver, but there are different code paths for different chipsets. There might be some problem with the XRender implementation on the 8600GT. You can try Fedora 15 Beta (try the KDE Live image if you don't want to install F15 yet). Fedora 15 Beta will be officially released today. (The final Fedora 15 release is currently scheduled for May 24.)
For OpenGL support, you can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, but I don't think the version in Fedora 14 will work with KWin. Fedora 15 ships OpenGL support for Nouveau by default; to my knowledge, whether KWin desktop effects work with it hasn't been tested yet. (Again, you should be able to test it with the Fedora 15 Beta KDE Live image.)
I see. Thanks for the info, Kevin. I'll try the F15 live image when I get chance on this machine.
Best, AC
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