On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, James Ausmus wrote:
> Hello All-
>
> I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
> different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
> different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
> everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
> or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
> glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
> try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded "Failed to
> activate desktop effects using the given configuration options..."
> dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
> Advanced tab, but no love.
>
> Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.
>
> Anyone have any clues????
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -James
shorten your conf to this and retry:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HP_L2045w"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nv8400"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "nv8400"
Monitor "HP_L2045w"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
