How to enable Desktop Effects with a nvidia GeForce 7300 card

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How to enable Desktop Effects with a nvidia GeForce 7300 card

Post by miguel_benitez » 2007/05/10 00:53:14

Hi everybody

I don't write or speak English very well, but I'm doing my best. here is my question

I have a Lenovo Notebook and it has installed a nvidia GeForce 7300 video card, the thing is when I tried to enable the desktop effects nothing happens.
i just have this error message: "Desktop Effects could not be be enabled", I went to the nvida web site and I have dowloaded and istalled the last nvidia driver for Linux. and again, I'm having the same problem. after that, I modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, It looks like this now

note: I added some sections.

but it still does not work. I searched the web for an aswer, but nothing, What Should I do with this?. Can you tell me, what is my problem. because I'm running out of ideas.

Thanks a lot Guys.

sorry for my english


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "latam"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CMO"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce Go 7300"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "metamodes" "1280x800_60 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection




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Re: How to enable Desktop Effects with a nvidia GeForce 7300 card

Post by eddysetyawan » 2007/05/10 01:33:15

can u try add this section

[font=Courier]Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "Enable"

EndSection[/font]

it can work for my gforce fx

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Post by NedSlider » 2007/05/11 01:41:17

I just built a set of beryl RPMs for CentOS 5 from the FC6 source RPMs and installed those. Now I have AIGLX/Beryl with spinning 3D desktops in all their glory :-D

It would be nice if RPMForge could get the Beryl stuff built for CentOS - it wasn't difficult. I loosely followed the guide here for getting it working:

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Fedora_Core

[img]http://home.freeuk.com/nedslider/centos5-beryl.png[/img]

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