KDE4 and NVidia 8300GS problems [Solved]

archdave · 2008-08-09 17:44:24

Symptons:
Screen Tearing
Desktop Effects not completely working

What changed:
Suddenly, seems all of the Desktop Effects started working proplerly.

What I did:
hwd -xa
nvidia-xconfig
Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Changed Depth from 16 to 24
Added my "1680x1050" to Mode lines
http://pastebin.com/f620a77c7

Systems Settings, Desktop:
Enable Desktop Effects checked
Advanced Options Button:
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL mode: Texture From Pixmap
Texture filter: Bilinear
Direct rendering checked
Use VSync unchecked
All Effects Tab:
Items checked are as follows:
Track Mouse
Zoom
Dialog Parent
Login
Logout
Minimize Animation
Present Windows
Scale In
Shadow
Desktop Grid
Flip Switch
Note: these are different from the defaults

My only guess is that turning off the Fade effect allowed other effects to start working properly. Weird thing is I didn't manually select Track Mouse or Zoom.
It might be possible that I clicked things in just the right order this time.

Items that work now that used not to:
Explosion
Fall Apart
Snow
Wobbly Windows
Flip Switch

NVidia drivers installed:
dave@dellazoid ~ $ yaourt -Ss nvidia | grep installed
extra/nvidia 173.14.12-1 [installed]
extra/nvidia-utils 173.14.12-1 [installed]
extra/nvclock 0.8b3-2 [installed]

See the results here:
http://webpages.charter.net/leutzdave/M … Switch.jpg

IMPORTANT Additional Note:
Noticed that running a diff on current xorg.conf against old backup copies shows that the change
From: Depth 16
To: Depth 24
is the more likely cause of things working now.
At some time long ago, evidently, I redid the xorg configuration and missed that one item.

Last edited by archdave (2008-08-10 07:28:46)

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#1 2008-08-09 17:44:24

KDE4 and NVidia 8300GS problems [Solved]

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