Desktop effects question (nVidia)

[Colin J Thomson - G6AVK]

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:
> > 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?
> >
> > All was fine in F11, I've tried to search for some info but no luck
> > so far.
> >
> > Clean install - F12/KDE-4.3.4
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Colin
> 
> Assuming the the X11 driver is installed (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-*) and
>  the nvidia module was compiled against your running kernel
> (find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) | grep nvidia.ko), have you added:

Yes I have the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-* files and the kernal module matches 
the kernel,

[g6avk at localhost ~]$ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) | grep nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko

> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option          "AIGLX"             "on"
> EndSection
> 
> ...and...
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>     Option          "Composite"         "Enable"
>     Option          "RENDER"            "true"
>     Option          "DAMAGE"            "true"
> EndSection
> 
> .. To your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?

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.

I'll keep trying

Thanks again

Colin
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