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<br>I am also getting the following message (that did not get in 4.1.1) when I try to enable desktop effects:<br><br>

<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.</p><br>Interestingly, some of desktop effects actually work even though they are not enabled when I use "nvidia" for my device.<br><br>If I switch to "nv", I can move the windows but if I try to enable special effects, I get the same error again:<br><br><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.</p>

<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.</p><br>Here is my xorg.conf:<br><br><br>Section "Files"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"<br>  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"<br>  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"<br>  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"<br>  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Module"<br>  Load         "dbe"<br>  Load         "dri"<br>  Load         "type1"<br>  Load         "freetype"<br>  Load         "extmod"<br>  Load         "glx"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "ServerFlags"<br>  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"<br>  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>  Driver       "kbd"<br>  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"<br>  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"<br>  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"<br>  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"<br>  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>  Driver       "mouse"<br>  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"<br>  Option       "Buttons" "5"<br>  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>  Option       "Name" "Elan Microelectronics PS/2+USB Mouse"<br>  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"<br>  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"<br>  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>  Driver       "synaptics"<br>  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"<br>  Option       "AccelFactor" "0.10"<br>  Option       "BottomEdge" "300"<br>  Option       "Buttons" "5"<br>  Option       "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"<br>  Option       "CircScrollTrigger" "2"<br>  Option       "CircularScrolling" "1"<br>  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>  Option       "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"<br>  Option       "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"<br>  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"<br>  Option       "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"<br>  Option       "FingerHigh" "40"<br>  Option       "FingerLow" "30"<br>  Option       "HorizScrollDelta" "30"<br>  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"<br>  Option       "LeftEdge" "100"<br>  Option       "MaxSpeed" "0.90"<br>  Option       "MaxTapMove" "100"<br>  Option       "MinSpeed" "0.15"<br>  Option       "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"<br>  Option       "Protocol" "auto-dev"<br>  Option       "RightEdge" "1100"<br>  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"<br>  Option       "SendCoreEvents" "on"<br>  Option       "TapButton1" "1"<br>  Option       "TapButton2" "3"<br>  Option       "TapButton3" "2"<br>  Option       "TopEdge" "50"<br>  Option       "UpDownScrolling" "1"<br>  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"<br>  Option       "VertScrollDelta" "25"<br>  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>  Driver       "synaptics"<br>  Identifier   "Mouse[5]"<br>  Option       "AccelFactor" "0.10"<br>  Option       "BottomEdge" "300"<br>  Option       "Buttons" "5"<br>  Option       "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"<br>  Option       "CircScrollTrigger" "2"<br>  Option       "CircularScrolling" "1"<br>  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>  Option       "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"<br>  Option       "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"<br>  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"<br>  Option       "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"<br>  Option       "FingerHigh" "40"<br>  Option       "FingerLow" "30"<br>  Option       "HorizScrollDelta" "30"<br>  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"<br>  Option       "LeftEdge" "100"<br>  Option       "MaxSpeed" "0.90"<br>  Option       "MaxTapMove" "100"<br>  Option       "MinSpeed" "0.15"<br>  Option       "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"<br>  Option       "Protocol" "auto-dev"<br>  Option       "RightEdge" "1100"<br>  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"<br>  Option       "SendCoreEvents" "on"<br>  Option       "TapButton1" "1"<br>  Option       "TapButton2" "3"<br>  Option       "TapButton3" "2"<br>  Option       "TopEdge" "50"<br>  Option       "UpDownScrolling" "1"<br>  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"<br>  Option       "VertScrollDelta" "25"<br>  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "Monitor"<br>  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"<br>  DisplaySize  331 207<br>  HorizSync    30-62<br>  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"<br>  ModelName    "FD1631154WB4 LCD MONITOR"<br>  Option       "DPMS"<br>  Option       "PreferredMode" "1280x800"<br>  VendorName   "CPT"<br>  VertRefresh  43-60<br>  UseModes     "Modes[0]"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "Modes"<br>  Identifier   "Modes[0]"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "Device"<br>  BoardName    "GeForce Go 7400"<br>  BusID        "1:0:0"<br>  Driver       "nv"<br>  Identifier   "Device[0]"<br>  VendorName   "NVIDIA"<br>  Option   "XAANoOfscreenPixmaps"    "true"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "Screen"<br>  DefaultDepth 24<br>  SubSection "Display"<br>    Depth      15<br>    Modes      "1280x800" <br>  EndSubSection<br>  SubSection "Display"<br>    Depth      16<br>    Modes      "1280x800" <br>  EndSubSection<br>  SubSection "Display"<br>    Depth      24<br>    Modes      "1280x800" <br>  EndSubSection<br>  SubSection "Display"<br>    Depth      8<br>    Modes      "1280x800" <br>  EndSubSection<br>  Device       "Device[0]"<br>  Identifier   "Screen[0]"<br>  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br>  Identifier   "Layout[all]"<br>  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"<br>  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"<br>  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"<br>  Screen       "Screen[0]"<br>  Option "aiglx" "true"<br>EndSection<br><br><br>Section "DRI"<br>    Group      "video"<br>    Mode       0660<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Extensions"<br>    Option   "Composite"  "Enable"<br>EndSection<br><br><br><br>Oct 19, 2008 03:39:32 AM, kde-linux@kde.org wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(102, 153, 204);">alexei.klimenko@verizon.net wrote:<br>>> Which graphics driver are you using? <br>> nvidia 173.14.12-0.1<br><br>Well, try the framebuffer driver in your xorg.conf and see if the problem <br>persits. I am unsure wether the problem is caused by a broken screen <br>refreshing in graphics/composite or if you ran into a kwin bug.<br><br>Greets,<br>Andreas<br><br>-- <br>Skype:   andreas.demmer<br>ICQ:     103 924 771<br><br>http://www.andreas-demmer.de<br><br><hr size="1"><br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.<br>Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux.<br>Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.<br>More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.</blockquote></body></html>