KDE desktop with no 3D effect

[speedyx]

No 3D effects on an nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] with the latest standard update and .39 kernel

[Thev00d00]

Try:

Code: Select all

eselect opengl nvidia

as root.

Restart X.

In KDE Alt+Shift+F12 will turn the effects back on

More information in future please it will enable better help

[speedyx]

Nop. nvidia is just setted. That is an old suggestion I've just known. Thank you anywway.
What can I try? I don't see any effect in the Effects Tab in System Settings. Maybe I lost a package?

[Fitzcarraldo]

What does your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file contain?

[genfool]

I don't see any effect in the Effects Tab in System Settings. Maybe I lost a package?

Can you explain? if you go to Start button > system settings
You do not see a desktop effects tab under workspace appearance and behavior?
Or if you open the desktop effects tab, Enable desktop effects button is grayed out?

If you do not have the tab, yes you are missing something. Not sure how to offer advice until we know.
If it is grayed out, is a driver issue, if it is gone, is a kde issue.

[speedyx]

What does your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file contain?

http://pastebin.sabayon.org/pastie/6624

[speedyx]

Or if you open the desktop effects tab, Enable desktop effects button is grayed out?
If it is grayed out, is a driver issue, if it is gone, is a kde issue.

it is grayed out

[throdon]

how are you on ram. I had 1GB on my netbook running anywhere from 350MB-550MB of ram with a 2GB swap and i would have had to force the desktop effects(they were greyed out). 2GB upgrade has made it to where it runs without force, too bad I found openbox on a couple of other distros just recently, now I don't really use KDE much at all anymore.

[speedyx]

how are you on ram.

I have 8GB

[genfool]

The Xorg.0.log looked fine from what I could see.
Is it possible that you have a kernel mismatch, eselect kernel list and uname -r match?
Only other thing it could be is xorg.conf, if you could post it would be useful.
Also, do you have nvidia-settings installed? If you open it, will complain about driver issues, possibly offer a solution.

If your /etc/X11/xorg.conf under section device has nvidia as the driver, I think it does because your previous log shows it loading nvidia module. Just double check and be sure.

A check list
eselect opengl list has nvidia with *
uname -r shows the kernel you are booted into
eselect kernel list has a * next to the kernel you are booted in
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf has nvidia as the driver

If all of this is correct and still does not work

Code: Select all

equo remove nvidia-drivers

Before rebooting

Code: Select all

equo install nvidia-drivers

Watch what driver it is installing, for some reason, it may be installing a kernel version different then you are booted into. I have seen this before, sometimes you need to specify the exact driver for your kernel, not just install nvidia-drivers.
If all this fails, I would suspect the xorg.conf and generate or make a new one.