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Redmumba

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 3

Compiz -- No shadows with new kernel?

I know there have been random posts about this, but I was wondering if anybody has had any updates, since nobody has said anything for a few weeks.

Basically speaking, I have the problem where nVidia 169.12 + 2.6.24 = no shadows or, occasionally, off-color, faint shadows that you can barely see.  All other aspects of Compiz work just fine--and in fact, the shadows worked fine a few weeks ago when I had 64-bit Arch installed.  However, I got tired of the hassle that was Java et al., and switched to 32-bit.  However, like I said, I have yet to see any shadows at all.  All other window decorations work--just not shadows.

Direct rendering, etc., is all working... hardware acceleration is not the issue.

I've recompiled the kernel, used both the Thinkpad kernel (kernel26tp) and the Zen kernel (kernel26-zen), but I still have the same problem.  Does anybody have a solution?

EDIT: Added my xorg.conf config file, for what its worth...

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option         "EmulateWheel" "on"
    Option         "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
    Option         "DPMS" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro NVS 140M"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Redmumba

Last edited by Redmumba (2008-03-10 01:43:31)

freakcode

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: Compiz -- No shadows with new kernel?

Isn't that related to Compiz instead of NVidia or Kernel? It's mostly related to Compiz, if you can get similar effects using, e.g., "xcompmgr -c".

Redmumba

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: Compiz -- No shadows with new kernel?

I would think so, but from the posts I've read on the NVNews forums and what not, Arch seems to be the common factor--which is strange.  In fact, all the original posters who have had this problem have all stated Arch as their distro.

And yes, I get shadows using xcompmgr... however, I would really like the additional plugins that Compiz has to offer....

Last edited by Redmumba (2008-03-10 00:21:40)

Redmumba

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: Compiz -- No shadows with new kernel?

Sorry to double-post, but here are just a few posts--the last one is exactly the same problem, and neither the OP or I have found any solutions.

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showpost … ostcount=7
http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthre … ght=shadow