On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus <james.aus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors > or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and > glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I > try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded "Failed to > activate desktop effects using the given configuration options..." > dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the > Advanced tab, but no love. > > Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output. > > Anyone have any clues????
Try to comment out all "Option" lines from the "Device" section of your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver. This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me.
