Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Latest trial on desktop effects in gutsy

If you have been reading my previous posts on my new gutsy install I can not get the desktop effects to work that come with gutsy.

My latest try as suggested in the Ubuntu forums was to install nvidia legacy driver for my graphics card. So I installed it, then restarted my computer and x crashed and I couldn't get in. So I used nano and edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the driver to "nv" then restarted and computer started smoothly.

I then tried again to enable desktop effects but nope, it asked me to enable the nvidia driver and when I do it removed the legacy driver and installed the regular nvidia driver.

So now I am back to where I was and still no desktop effects on gutsy....

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whats the error when x crashes with lagacy driver? look at the xorg error output you should find more informations there. nv driver din't has 3d support so you won't get any 3d or desktop effects with it. what kind of a card u have?
1 reply · active 913 weeks ago
ye ai noticed while using nv awn ran super slow with xcompmgr...
you have to use the proprietary driver from nvidia(in xorg.conf for device section "nvidia")here are a few suggestions..have u made the section:Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable"EndSectionand added " Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"" to the screen sectionand added " Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"" to the device sectioni think thats it=D
1 reply · active 912 weeks ago
should i do this to my x on the normal nvidia driver ubuntu install or when i have the legacy ones on?
with the normal ones from nvidia
1 reply · active 912 weeks ago
ok so i tried ur suggestions to the xorg and they didnt work still got the same message saying couldn't enable desktop effects, here is my xorg:

http://pastebin.ca/728428

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