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Old 11-20-2011, 01:29 PM   #1
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Cannot Enable Desktop Effects on CentOS 6


Hi,

I am running CentOS 6 on a Dell Precision M4300 and I cannot enable Desktop Effects. When I try to enable it I get "Accelerated 3D graphics is not available. Desktop effects requires hardware 3d support."

I am gathering it's probably a driver issue as I've poked around for quite a while on Google now trying various solutions for creating a new xorg.conf file, reloading Nvidia drivers, unloading nouveau, etc but I haven't had any success yet. Here is the output of lspci:

Code:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
[root@localhost ~]#
Code:
And the output of lsmod if it helps: 
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep video
video                  16662  1 nouveau
output                  1779  1 video
[root@localhost ~]#
I currently have no xorg.conf file and when I try to create one I get the following:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# Xorg -configure

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
	If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
	and start again.


Please consult the Red Hat, Inc. support 
	 at https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
 for help. 

[root@localhost ~]#
So then I drop to init 3 or init 1 and try again and I get an error about the PCi device being held hostage by the kernel. That's why I tried to unload nouveau and couldn't get anywhere with that either. I'm stumped.

All I want to do is enable desktop effects so I can use the cube desktop.

Any input?

Thanks!
 
Old 11-20-2011, 05:28 PM   #2
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You can use also nv driver instead nouveau, or proprietary nvidea from here http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us, or from distribution repository. For your graphic card it seems be NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.
But I don't sure that it solves problem. All drivers for nvidea under linux are imperfect. They can not enable some hardware ability. It is missing not of Linux, but of NVIDIA Corporation, which itself can not manufacture a good driver for Linux, and does not discover source code.

My more old nvidea Geforce FX 5900 XT also does not support graphical desktop effects and 32-bit color management, with any drivers.

There is official specification of support OpenGL in nVidea http://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-driver
here a criticism of NVIADEA Corp. policy toward Linux http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/201...pport-for.html

Last edited by Arelatensis; 11-20-2011 at 05:56 PM.
 
Old 11-20-2011, 06:26 PM   #3
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Wink Nvidia proprietary driver WILL work.

If you look at Fedora 16 bug reports, you'll see that the 'open' driver stack (nouveau, mesa, etc.) only became capable of doing "everything" required by Compiz, and KWin, just a few days ago. A recent kernel update is necessary, too.

So, unless you want to be an alpha tester; switch to Nvidia's proprietary driver -- even though it probably won't be compatible with Qt on Wayland in the future. ( !!!

When you switch to Nvidia's proprietary driver, be sure to blacklist any nouveau and mesa modules wshich appear in 'lsmod' output. Even though it doesn't support 3d, you should back up your xorg.cong file before allowing the NVidia installer to mess with it, their 'save the old one' only saves one copy. (So, if it dies the first time, and you run the Nvidia Installer a second time, your pre-Nvidia configuration is destroyed. Do NOT save under the name 'xorg.conf.old', that's the name which Nvidia will overwrite if it already exists.)

If Centos has an NVidia package, just use that- it saves you the trouble of installing the Kernel 'Development' Source Headers form the Nvidia Driver compilation step. But both ways work, it's not hard to do either way.
 
Old 11-20-2011, 09:21 PM   #4
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