[Bug 157282] New: Looking glass magnifer and sharpen OpenGL Desktop effects crash/do not work on multiple systems

[Morgan Cox]

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           Summary: Looking glass magnifer and sharpen OpenGL Desktop
                    effects crash/do not work on multiple systems
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: morgancoxuk gmail com


Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) 
OS:                Linux

Hi.

I am having issues with certain opengl accessibility desktop effects.

Some of the 'desktop effects' either do nothing when activated or prevent me being able to click on anything / sometime even lock the machine so I have to restart X.

Most 3D effects work fine - I can use the normal Magnifier, zoom, explosion fine (they work pretty fast on my nvidia card too!).

However when I select the looking glass magnifier and press windows key and + it either crashes or does nothing - I have tried it both with the normal magnifier enabled and disabled - same result. Same thing happens with the sharpen desktop effect..

The strange thing the looking glass magnifer did work with one of the KDE4 release candidates.(think it was RC2.)

I am having similar issues on the following systems (so doesn't seem hardware / distro related.)

[my desktop]
opensuse 10.3 64bit (xorg 7.3) - nvidia geforce 8500 - kde 4.0.1
gentoo 64bit - nvidia geforce 8500 - kde 4 (from masked portage)

[my work desktop (they give us crap onboard video cards...)]
opensuse 10.3 32bit (xorg 7.3) - intel 915G - kde 4.0.1


On both machines most 3d effects work (it is definitely in opengl mode not xrender) so I am sure all xcomposite settings are enabled.) 

Is there anything I can do to provide more info on this ?

Thanks

P.S - loving how KDE4 is coming on (as mentioned already using it at work...)