[SOLVED] 3D effects in KDE

[wintpe]

under fresh install of mga2kde 64

running nvidea proprietry driver, cant seem to get kde built in 3d effects to work.

I know the nvidea driver is in place as i use it to set screen to 120hts refresh.

I am using same xorg.conf that i used in mga1, where it was working.

for example, flip task switching and cube desktop changer.

despite selecting them, still getting the 2D task switcher and 2D desktop changer.

anyone else seen similar

can post the config later today, if no ones seen this before.

regards peter

[doktor5000]

I know the nvidea driver is in place as i use it to set screen to 120hts refresh.

May sound like a dumb question, but did you verify that it is really nvidia driver that is used in current X session via

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grep -Ri driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Nouveau or nv may also allow 120Hz refresh rate, so that is no foolproof way to tell which driver is used.

[viking60]

Sometime the settings get fubared during update.
In that case it might help to set every thing to default by pressing the default button in the system settings.

[wintpe]

re am i sure

well i used nvidia settings to verify that the refresh rate was set to 120, and to save the .nvidia-settings file.

and lsmod shows the nvidia driver running.

ill try a removal of .kde and see if it fixes it

regards peter

[doktor5000]

There is no global default button - also this changes the current users settings. Maybe better setup a new user, to check if it fixes the problem,
and then migrate your old settings over to the new one, one by one to find the offending configuration.

Also lsmod is not the best way, as it only tells you that the kernel module is loaded - not which X driver is used
May be nitpicking, but i prefer to check the actual X driver. Otherwise, could you post your xorg.conf or maybe try without one?

[wintpe]

there are no old settings, this is a complete new from scratch upgrade with a home directory wipe.

and the xorg.conf confirms also that its the nvidia a driver

[ 10.302] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 10.350] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 10.350] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 10.350] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 295.71 Thu Aug 2 19:44:10 PDT 2012

still no 3d effects in kde.

regards peter

[wintpe]

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=108054

and specificly run up kcmshell4 kwintabbox


and change to flip switch in there

i did hav the others working after several changes, but was only testing against flip switch ,

the changes in all effects will not do anything at all without the above.

backwards step.

regards peter