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Dekkon0

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 4

Nvidia reports direct rendering, but docky says to enable composite?

I installed the nvidia driver and all works good so far. Nvidia-settings says direct rendering is enabled and glxgears works. The only problem is Dock says I need to enable compositing.

I tried adding a Extensions section in my xorg.conf with composite enabled but didn't do anything.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 256.35  (buildmeister@builder97.nvidia.com)  Wed Jun 16 19:15:05 PDT 2010


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Nvidia reports direct rendering, but docky says to enable composite?

Which WM or DE are you using? For standalone WMs like Openbox, you can use xcompmgr or cairo-compmgr to get compositing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cairo_Compmgr

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr

Last edited by anonymous_user (2011-03-30 18:15:50)

Dekkon0

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 4

Re: Nvidia reports direct rendering, but docky says to enable composite?

I am using gnome and I have to install compiz I take it?

Thanks.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Nvidia reports direct rendering, but docky says to enable composite?

Sure.