Setup nVideo Video/Display with native nvidia rendering for Compiz
Posted by admin on July 27th, 2008
We saw here to setup the nVidia drivers to use AIGLX rendering for Compiz Fusion. However, nVIDIA has its own native nvidia rendering engine which is supported on driver versions 1.0-9625 or later.
In openSUSE 11.0, composite is enabled by default. However, to confirm Compisite is enabled,
opensuse11:~ # grep Composite /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) Extension “Composite” is enabled
(II) Composite (RENDER acceleration)
The setting can be found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
opensuse11:~ # grep -i composite /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option “Composite” “on”
Install Drivers
For newer nVidia cards, click here for 1-click installation drivers
For legacy nVidia display cards, click here for 1-click installation of legacy drivers.
The above will start YaST package manager to install the required drivers.
nVIDIA native rendering
For nVIDIA rendering to work correctly with Compiz, you must enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals. These are enabled by default with nvidia driver versions 100.14.09 and later. However, for the earlier versions, run the following command:
opensuse11:~ # nvidia-xconfig –add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
This adds the following entries into the /etc/X11xorg.conf file
Under Section Device
Section “Device”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true”
Under Section Screen
Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
That should do, we are now ready to experience the Compiz-Fusion desktop effects in openSUSE 11.0
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:24 am
Hello,
Composite is supposed to be enabled in openSUSE 11 , applying the following with my Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS :
# grep Composite /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is enabled
but # grep -i composite /etc/X11/xorg.conf … gives nothing
what shall i do then ?
Add Option “Composite” “on” in xorg.conf ?
Where ?
Thanks ;=)
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:25 am
try, in root :
# nvidia-xconfig –composite
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