3D Desktop

aerogate · 10-06-2006, 07:43 AM

Got my Mandriva 2007 system setup, all working fine apart from no 3D desktop, I have nvidia drivers installed, checked with playing a few games in Cedega (bf1942, GTA Vice City) on geforce4 mx4000

I get this message when in the 3D desktop configurator :-

`your system does not support 3d desktop effect`
any suggestions?

Mike

johnson_steve · 10-06-2006, 10:58 AM

what? to clarify you are talking about:

3ddesk
-and-
3ddeskd

Quote:

3ddesk(1) User Commands 3ddesk(1)

NAME
3ddesk - activates 3D-Desktop, a 3D desktop switcher.

SYNOPSIS
3ddesk [ OPTIONS ]

DESCRIPTION
3D Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a
seamless 3-dimensional manner. The default "visualization" maps your
screen onto an N-sided "carousel" which is rotated to select the next
screen. When activated the current desktop appears to zoom out so as
to make your desktop appear to be actually in a 3d environment with
your other desktops.

my gentoo system (with the same card) runs 3ddesk perfectly. can you cut and paste the exact output along with the output of:

xdpyinfo

-and-

glxinfo

What is "3D desktop configurator"?

aerogate · 10-06-2006, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnson_steve

what? to clarify you are talking about:

3ddesk
-and-
3ddeskd

my gentoo system (with the same card) runs 3ddesk perfectly. can you cut and paste the exact output along with the output of:

xdpyinfo

-and-

glxinfo

What is "3D desktop configurator"?

No, this :-
It`s now intergrated into Mandriva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk

johnson_steve · 10-06-2006, 03:46 PM

What mandriva is calling 3D Desktop is XGL an opengl xserver that runs ontop of the regular xserver. not very many computers run it properly and it isn't considered stable.

3D-Desktop is the name of an application that replaces the pager:

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

aerogate · 10-06-2006, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnson_steve

What mandriva is calling 3D Desktop is XGL an opengl xserver that runs ontop of the regular xserver. not very many computers run it properly and it isn't considered stable.

3D-Desktop is the name of an application that replaces the pager:

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

thanks for info, so what I¬m after i guess is what is required to run it with stability, hardware config? maybe people can post what hardware specs they have running 3d destop with success

johnson_steve · 10-09-2006, 08:02 PM

I never tried to run XGL as running an xserver ontop of an xserver would be a waste of resources. it does look cool and lucky for you afaik it only runs on nice nvidia cards with the nvidia driver. calling it 3d desktop will just confuse everybody who doesn't use mandriva because there already is a 3ddesktop. XGL has been available for suse, fedora and gentoo for a while (probably others too.) if you look for help with XGL I'm sure someone can help you. also I think they are trying to make it a stand alone xserver so you wouldn't have to run it ontop of X.org when that happens I will try it. till then I'm happy with X.org 7.0 with the composite extension, 3ddesktop and skippy.

aerogate · 10-10-2006, 03:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnson_steve

I never tried to run XGL as running an xserver ontop of an xserver would be a waste of resources. it does look cool and lucky for you afaik it only runs on nice nvidia cards with the nvidia driver. calling it 3d desktop will just confuse everybody who doesn't use mandriva because there already is a 3ddesktop. XGL has been available for suse, fedora and gentoo for a while (probably others too.) if you look for help with XGL I'm sure someone can help you. also I think they are trying to make it a stand alone xserver so you wouldn't have to run it ontop of X.org when that happens I will try it. till then I'm happy with X.org 7.0 with the composite extension, 3ddesktop and skippy.

Got it working in the end, it was the nvidia accelerated drivers not installed properly, but your right, it is a waste of resources.