Current problems (ie. help sought from the brains trust)

2009-08-02 Thread jedd
Howdi, Okay, first up, 2.4.2 is much much better than 2.4.2, and part of that for me was shifting back to an nVidia grunty desktop, from an intel-chipset laptop. The following are all suffixed with a '... anyone else seeing this, and/or have any ideas on how to resolve?'. Sometime in the

Re: Current problems (ie. help sought from the brains trust)

2009-08-02 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 02 August 2009 07:54:17 am jedd wrote: > Howdi, > > Okay, first up, 2.4.2 is much much better than 2.4.2, and part > of that for me was shifting back to an nVidia grunty desktop, > from an intel-chipset laptop. > > The following are all suffixed with a '... anyone else seeing > this, a

Re: Current problems (ie. help sought from the brains trust)

2009-08-02 Thread jedd
Hi John and thank you for your advice. On Sun 2009-08-02, John Culleton wrote: > With respect to sound problems on my Slackware system I had to > first deal with the alsamixer settings from the command line and > then free up some permissions in /dev. Whether this helps or not > on your dissimi

Re: KDE4 - panel takes ages (10+ minutes) to show up

2009-08-02 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Saturday 01 August 2009 19:59:07 Jan De Luyck wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've got a weird problem, which I can't seem to find a solution for: > > After starting KDE 4 (startx), the panel (plasma I think it's called?) > takes more than 10 minutes to show up. > > Also, during this time, I see that

Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread Ferdinand Smit
Hi, Since i have upgraded my xserver to 1:7.4+3 my desktop effects do not work anymore. I still can use XRender but not OpenGL mode. Popup message: Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values. Check your X config

Re: Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread André Wöbbeking
On Sunday 02 August 2009, Ferdinand Smit wrote: > Hi, > > Since i have upgraded my xserver to 1:7.4+3 my desktop effects do not > work anymore. I still can use XRender but not OpenGL mode. > > Popup message: > > Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration > options. Settings wi

Re: Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread Ferdinand Smit
Hi, > > Packages: > > xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3 > > xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-2 > > In that release UXA is disabled for cards with i8xx chipsets. Do you've > one? Thanks for the reply, but i do not think i have a i8xx chipsets. $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965

Re: Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread André Wöbbeking
On Sunday 02 August 2009, Ferdinand Smit wrote: > Hi, > > > > Packages: > > > xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3 > > > xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-2 > > > > In that release UXA is disabled for cards with i8xx chipsets. Do > > you've one? > > Thanks for the reply, but i do not think i have a i8xx chipset

Re: Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread Ferdinand Smit
Hi, > What do you get for > $ glxinfo | grep -i opengl OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.5.1 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 OpenGL extensions: > You c

Re: Desktop effects not working anymore

2009-08-02 Thread Cade
I had the issue about a week ago but it was Mesa I think that caused it on an intel Q35 video chip. There was an update last week sometime that corrected it mostly. Sharpen effect doesn't work -but I never noticed what it actually did. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Ferdinand Smit wrote: > Hi, >