Desktop effects question (nVidia)

[Colin J Thomson - G6AVK]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 00:00:02 Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 17:43:20 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Out of curiosity,
> > I am using rpmfusions Nvidia drivers but I can't get any of KDE's
> > desktop effects to work, everything else seems fine. Is this a known
> > problem?
> 
> It works for me, with all updates applied from Fedora repository and
> RPMFusion. What card do you have ? Make sure you enable the driver
>  itself, then maybe try restart X (log out and re-login). Also, watch
>  for this bug:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common#Problems_when_using_KDE_with
> _the_proprietary_NVIDIA_graphics_driver.2C_some_Radeon_dual-
>  head_configurations.2C_or_nouveau_with_KMS_disabled
> 
> I use the test build listed there and it's been working fine.

Most puzzling, I knew about this problem and have the patched xorg-x11 
files 
from Koji. Driver is enabled all the correct options are set in my 
xorg.conf

The card is a GeForce 7800 GS, I am at a loss at the moment,

Colin.
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