Desktop effects question (nVidia)

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 12/18/2009 01:47 PM, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
>
> On Friday 18 December 2009 17:38:52 Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:17 +0000, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
>>> On Friday 18 December 2009 01:21:20 Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:04 +0000, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 08:35:19 Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:43 +0000, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have these except the last two, added but with no change
>>>>> (restarted X) I am puzzled as this hardware ran fine on F10 and
>>>>> 11.
>>>>
>>>> Could you please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of
>>>> glxinfo?
>>>
>>> Sure Gilboa, this is with the added Options RENDER and  DAMAGE you
>>> suggested.
>>
>> -Everything- looks OK.
>> What exactly happens when you enable composition?
>
> I was afraid you were going to say that,
> When I select the Enable Desktop Effects check box and click apply this
> pops up:
>
> "Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options.
> Settings will be reverted to their previous values.
>
> Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced
> options, especially changing the compositing type."

Are you using OpenGL in the Advanced Options?



>
> Cheers
>
> Colin

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