desktop effects issues and NVidia beta driver

[Lonni J Friedman]

See:
http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77030

On 10/29/06, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> My graphics card is:
>
> # lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
> 5200 Ultra] (rev a1)
>
> I installed the beta NVidia driver from here:
>
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/testing/6/i386/
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9626-2.lvn6
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel-1.0.9626-2.lvn6
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9626-1.2.6.18_1.2798.fc6
>
> I tried to enable Desktop Effects but it refused to work.
>
> I then added Load  "extmod" to the Module section in xorg.conf and I
> could turn on the Effects. Rotating the desktop cube works fine. The
> menus wobble just fine.
> However:
> - gnome-terminal is just a white rectangle with nothing in it (even if I
> blindly type something, it doesn't show up, although the commands are
> executed, so it's just a display issue) and the
> title bar with the window buttons (minimize, maximize, close) is not
> displayed.
> - any window is displayed without the title bar. Other applications than
> the terminal (Thunderbird, Text Editor) are displayed fine but without
> the title bar.
>
> I added this to xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Extensions"
>          Option "Composite"
> EndSection
>
> ...but still no improvement.
>
> I attached xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log to this message.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Desktop Effects work just fine out of the box on my laptop with an ATI card.
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> http://florin.myip.org/
>
>
>
>
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "extmod"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option "Composite"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         ModelName    "SGI 20-inch GDM-20E21"
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
>         VertRefresh  48.0 - 160.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection


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