Enabling Translucency, KDE3.4, nvidia geforce4 ti4600

StijnSpijker · 08-13-2005, 04:39 PM

Well, first system specs, always handy

Pentium4 2.8, HT, 800FSB (Northwood)
MSI 865PE Neo2 LS800
Geforce Ti4600 ( Leadtek/Winfast A250 Ultra TD)
Creative Soundblaster Live

Well, i'm using Gentoo-linux, 2.6.12-r8.

So, I saw this function in KDE (translucency), with what you could fade windows, so I thought, COOL

First I saw that the 'nv' driver was not going to do the trick, cause I had very low FPS, I think it was rendering the shadows and fades on software.

So I emerge nvidia-kernel, nvidia-settings, nvidia-glx.
I Added the 'Composite' 'Enable' under extensions
I Disabled the Load 'dri' (outcommented), and enabled
AllowCompositeWithGLX, RenderAccel, and last but not least, changed the "Driver" to nvidia.

Well, all things whent well

, but as soon as I turned translucency on in KDE, and restarted xdm with /etc/init.d/xdm restart. Now, I get the login, well, I type my password *enter* get the loading screen of kde, it all goes well. BUT

My icons and taskbar etc dont appear ? I'm also not able to start any programs (like ksysguard).

So, i looked for my logs ...

First, what happens if I start with startx ->

Xorg.0.log : h**p://paste.uni.cc/7595

What happens if I start with /etc/init.d/xdm start

Xorg.0.log : h**p://paste.uni.cc/7596
kdm.log : h**p://paste.uni.cc/7597

Can anyone help me ?

(fixed the urls because i could not post)

freakyg · 08-15-2005, 07:22 AM

in your xorg.conf file-- did you change the "driver" "nv" to ..........> "driver" "nvidia"

freakyg · 08-15-2005, 07:30 AM

I'll post this here just for the sake of the LQ search engine..........
I found it yesterday, and it shows how to enable translucent windows in KDE........so everyone should bookmark this baby!!!

http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/kde/...ansparency.swf

Valhalla · 08-15-2005, 08:52 AM

Have you enabled side-band addressing and fast-writes on the nvidia kernel module.

Pull up /etc/modules.d/nvidia and uncomment the line that it says to. Then run depmod -a and reload the kernel module.

p.s. transparency is still a little buggy, the above has nothing to do with transparency whatsoever, but I had a similar problem with transparency that was fixed by this.