[SOLVED] Can't enable desktop effects in kde 4.5.5

Phorize · 05-19-2011, 03:53 PM

Hello. Running fglrx on 13.37 slack64 I get "Desktop effects are not available on this system due to the following technical issues"-except there are no issues flagged!

Any ideas?

willysr · 05-20-2011, 09:22 AM

What VGA card do you use?
have you installed blob driver from ATI/NVidia?

Phorize · 05-20-2011, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

What VGA card do you use?
have you installed blob driver from ATI/NVidia?

Yes, I am running the fglrx driver-it's a radeon mobility 3200 and normally behaves itself with the in kernel radeon and proprietary drivers. I have aiglx enabled in the xorg.conf, but the problem occured when running the in kernel driver too. The basic issue is that the enable 3d effects option is greyed out in the kde control centre, showing the message above.

Phorize · 05-20-2011, 10:44 AM

Forgot to mention that compositing works fine in xfce.

Kris

Phorize · 05-20-2011, 10:53 AM

Forgot to mention that compositing works fine in xfce.

Kris

allend · 05-20-2011, 11:15 PM

This is the compositing section from my ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc

Quote:

[Compositing]
AnimationSpeed=3
Backend=OpenGL
CheckIsSafe=true
DisableChecks=false
Enabled=true
GLDirect=true
GLMode=TFP
GLTextureFilter=1
GLVSync=true
HiddenPreviews=5
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false
XRenderSmoothScale=false

KDE will start with enable 3d effects option greyed out if OpenGLIsUnsafe=true.
At start up, by default KDE will check your OpenGL support (CheckIsSafe=true). If these checks fail, then
OpenGLIsUnsafe=true is set.
There have been reports of some ATI graphics working successfully if the KDE start up checks are disabled (DisableChecks=true).

Phorize · 05-21-2011, 02:40 AM

Thanks for the help

I solved this just by rm -r .kde and restart