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eurabilis
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 Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:42 pm Post subject: Cant get desktop effects to turn on in KDE |
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Hello friends,
I cant get desktop effects to turn on in KDE.
| Code: | mike@gentoo ~ $ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
mike@gentoo ~ $ |
Seems it should turn on fine. Any idea where I should start looking? Xorg.0.log looks fine I think.
| Code: | gentoo mike # eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] xorg-x11 *
gentoo mike #
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Is that correct?
In system settings there are three different versions of opengl none work. the error I get is
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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. |
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albright
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| Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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what is your video card? and what kernel version?
do the effects work with xrender engine?
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eurabilis
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Hi, My videocard is ati radeon 9280 and my kernel version is 3.12.8 thanks boss. yes they work with xrender but i would like opengl so i can get cube and wobbly windows. |
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mrbassie
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:15 am Post subject: |
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I got this to work by toggling all the effects off first with ctrl+shift+f12 and then switching. Otherwise I would get exactly the same error. However, every log in my chosen wallpaper was reset to the default (which I don't like at all), couldn't figureout how to fix it so I didn't stick with it.
Might be worth a try. |
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albright
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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have you tried unmasking xorg-server and mesa? Or, if you
are using unmasked versions, dropping back to stable
(I had to do the latter with my new notebook which is
intel video)
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eurabilis
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject: Solved |
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| Thanks for your input. With that said, there comes a time when you just should upgrade so I did. I threw in an nvidia gforce 6200 card changed the setup and problem is solved. This just wasn't worth the trouble. Thanks. |
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