Hi all, Just wanted to mention that thanks to a post on the freebsd-x11 mailing list I was able to get desktop effects working on my Intel graphics box.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009- February/007516.html Anyways, not sure if that'll work on my nVidia box, but I'll be fooling around with it when I get home. Cheers, DMK On February 12, 2009 11:18:00 am Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, I upgraded a second box to 4.2, this time using the committed > ports. I ran into the same problem with juk that I'd encountered before. > I continued experimenting though, and found that the problem went > away when I switched phonon to use the gstreamer back-end instead > of the xine one. > > Now, my main complaint about 4.2 is that I can't seem to enable > Desktop Effects. On both of my boxes, I had Desktop Effects working > using XRender. One has an Intel 82945G (945G GMCH) graphics, the > other has a nVidia 7300 running the latest nvidia driver. Neither one > will start up desktop effects in 4.2, either through XRender or OpenGL. > The Intel has DRI, but I'll admit it's pretty weak. The nVidia one though > has pretty good OpenGL performance... I can play UT2004, or Guild > Wars (in WINE) with no difficulties. Still, in 4.1.4 I had to use XRender > on it too. *shrug* > > I'm currently on the Intel box. The only error messages I can find are > these: > > Object::connect: No such slot > KWin::KWinCompositingConfig::compositingModeChange > d() > Object::connect: (sender name: 'compositingType') > Object::connect: (receiver name: 'KWinCompositingConfig') > > Anyways, any thoughts? I can send along my xorg.conf if anyone > thinks that would be informative. > > Thanks, > DMK > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > kde-freebsd@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd > See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
