Cannot enable desktop effects in KDE 4.3.4 on Slackware 64 13.0
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From: Aaron W. Hsu on 27 Jan 2010 20:14 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:32:42 -0500, Paul <pminottawa(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: > > I cannot enable desktop effects in Slackware. Do you have hardware 3D Acceleration? Aaron W. Hsu -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
From: Paul on 27 Jan 2010 21:39 On 01/27/10 08:14 PM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:32:42 -0500, Paul <pminottawa(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> >> I cannot enable desktop effects in Slackware. > > Do you have hardware 3D Acceleration? > > Aaron W. Hsu > The card is supposed to have 3-d support. Whether I have it activated is something else.
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 28 Jan 2010 00:04 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:39:26 -0500, Paul <pminottawa(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: > The card is supposed to have 3-d support. Whether I have it activated is > something else. You should check that, because this could be the problem. Desktop Effects rely on OpenGL unless you set it to use Xrender. Either way, without 3-D acceleration, you aren't going to get much out of the 3-D effects, IMO. Aaron W. Hsu -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 28 Jan 2010 02:18 Paul <pminottawa(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: > The card is supposed to have 3-d support. Whether I have it activated is > something else. You can check this by running glxinfo | grep direct regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Paul on 28 Jan 2010 17:58
On 01/28/10 12:04 AM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:39:26 -0500, Paul <pminottawa(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> The card is supposed to have 3-d support. Whether I have it activated >> is something else. > > You should check that, because this could be the problem. Desktop > Effects rely on OpenGL unless you set it to use Xrender. Either way, > without 3-D acceleration, you aren't going to get much out of the 3-D > effects, IMO. > > Aaron W. Hsu > Thank you. Last night I set the compositing type to XRender. Desktop Effects now work--although its started with some squawking. |