KDE Desktop Effects

[nadir]

antix comes with a quite verbose xorg.conf[.in]. If it would help here i wouldn't know.
It barely lets me hang down (but in such cases i usually don't hunt for composing, but for simply being able to start X at all).

[Beewolf]

I have no problems running any of those as a normal user in xfce4 - but I do remember having problems running stuff like that in KDE - so I think I know what you're getting at there. I'm still not sure why that is though...

I was referring to the fact that he ran them as root.

[mharrison]

I have no problems running any of those as a normal user in xfce4 - but I do remember having problems running stuff like that in KDE - so I think I know what you're getting at there. I'm still not sure why that is though...

I was referring to the fact that he ran them as root.

You could have just said that

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matt@desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
matt@desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes
matt@desktop:~$


[cynwulf]

Have you ever had proprietary drivers installed or have you tried to install them? If so purge them completely and do

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aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-core

[mharrison]

Have you ever had proprietary drivers installed or have you tried to install them? If so purge them completely and do

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aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-core

No and No.

I was going to work on the xorg.conf file but I got busy last night on another project so I'll have to see about trying it tonight after I get back from my Linux User Group meeting.

[cynwulf]

I have no problems running any of those as a normal user in xfce4 - but I do remember having problems running stuff like that in KDE - so I think I know what you're getting at there. I'm still not sure why that is though...

I was referring to the fact that he ran them as root.

Yes I had it backwards... that was one of the main reasons I disliked KDE last time I tried it. I remember it took me a few hours to find out what happened to kdesu as well...

I was going to work on the xorg.conf file but I got busy last night on another project so I'll have to see about trying it tonight after I get back from my Linux User Group meeting.

Try the xorg.conf next then run this lot again

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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(don't run as root)

[nadir]

If you choose to install the proprietary drivers (and run into trouble), look here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ost4440892
I neither got Nvidia nor do i run kde, so if it holds the facts or not i can't say (if it was me i would rather mv .kde to a backup-dir...).

[huggybear]

So, why not just

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rmmod nouveau

instead of restarting Linux? The only reason to restart would be if the mode setting was still on.

[Beewolf]

Because you have to unbind the framebuffer before you can unload it and how to do the former isn't exactly common knowledge.

[mharrison]

So it looks like the xorg.conf was the issue here. I created the one Cynwulf posted and it did let me enable the KDE Desktop Effects with OpenGL.

However, my machine is on the lower end of the spec train, so I ended up having to turn it off because it was a bit of a pain on how slow to respond my system got with it enabled. But, at least I know for the future, when I get myself a new machine someday, what I need to do.

Thanks for the help all.