Composite enabling and 3D capability conflict

[apoorv_khurasia]

Hi All

I recently installed SuSE 10.0 (don't ask why not 10.2 etc....) on my Sony VAIO VGN C25 G/B. It has an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics card and I am using the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA. At first I enabled the graphics card and tested with glxinfo and glxgears (and many other OpenGL apps) and it worked fine. Then I went to enable the translucency features in KDE 3.4 and added a section like this

  Section "Extensions"
       Option "Composite" "Enable"
  EndSection

But when I restarted the X server and started KDE and all OpenGL apps stopped working and glxinfo complained about missing extension glx.....translucency works fine. Upon disabling the composite extension OpenGL apps run without any trouble.

Anyone seen such a problem or know how to tackle it?

[bigtomrodney]

If you are using the latest nvidia drivers that extension doesn't do anything, as the composite part is enabled by default. I take it though that the translucency in KDE isn't working without it?

[apoorv_khurasia]

If you are using the latest nvidia drivers that extension doesn't do anything, as the composite part is enabled by default. I take it though that the translucency in KDE isn't working without it?

Yes you r right....it says composite manager crashed twice within 10 seconds...disabling for sessions enable composite in your Xorg conf file. etc.............Even I thought nvidia would enable composites by default.

[Thrillhouse]

I'm not saying this will work but do you have xcompmgr installed and running? That may make a difference, it did for me (on a non-compositeable WM). Maybe for some reason the nvidia composite manager isn't running at all.

[apoorv_khurasia]

So finally I got them to work together......see this. But there are issues still.....the OpenGL apps are not functioning properly and rendering is arbitary....I think I will have to upgrade Xorg....actually using SuSE 10.0 so should not expect state of the hardware to function all correctly.... Still if anyone of u have some ideas pop them up.

Thanks for ur suggestions.