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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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nvidia update broke KDE compositing

The recent nvidia update to 260.19.12 seems to have broken KDE compositing. Under Desktop Effects in the System Settings it claims that "desktop effects are not available due to the following technical issues:" (without listing any technical issues).

Anybody else having similar issues?

I'm using Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS on a laptop.

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turing

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 30

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

260.19.12 is not working that good. My Xorg is crashing when I want to end jdownloader (and jdownloader does not show anything on the screen).

thoand

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Registered: 2010-09-08

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

I have the same issue on my Thinkpad W510 with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M.

My driver is:
extra/nvidia 260.19.12-1 [installed]
    NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.

walp

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Registered: 2010-08-23

Posts: 23

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

Same here, how do we fix this?

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

Same here, how do we fix this?

The only option seems to be to downgrade to the previous nvidia and nvidia-utils (256.53).

I can only hope that this problem will be fixed by nvidia in their next release.

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thoand

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Registered: 2010-09-08

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

is it possible to prevent only a single package version from being upgraded? I put a "IgnorePkg   = nvidia nvidia-utils" in my pacman.conf, but so I have to check manualy if there is a newer version then 260.19.12-1

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

No, it is not possible, but pacman issues a warning with version numbers, everytime you -Syu

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thoand

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Registered: 2010-09-08

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

ok, I saw that. I made a sticky note with the "bad" number

thoand

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Registered: 2010-09-08

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

Hi,

I am unable to reactivate composite, even with driver version 256.53-1. Does the downgrade work for you?

thoand

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

Have you tried reloging in with a different .kde4 ? (mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-bak )

I had had that weird problem many months ago and it was resolved... by using the default settings of KDE.

Downgrading the nvidia driver is not really a solution, since that one (256.x) has serious performance issues regarding GTK2+.

Last edited by flamelab (2010-11-05 07:41:13)

thoand

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Registered: 2010-09-08

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

That was a great idea, now everything is working normal. (with the new nvidia driver)

But I only deletet .kde4/share/config/kwinrc so I do not have to reconfigure everything.

Thank you!

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: nvidia update broke KDE compositing

Ι'll add that to the kde wiki page for future reference.