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openSuSE, nvidia-settings can’t X server doesn’t appear to be running, also some applications are transparent and unusable

Mercredi, janvier 28th, 2009

The transparency thing comes from the official nvidia driver. It’s not cooperating with X. Now what I wanted was to have compiz, no-transparency and nvidia-settings at the same time. It is possible the following way:

on opensuse you must have the two packages installed:

nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-173.14.12

x11-video-nvidiaG01-173.14.12-0.3.x86_64.rpm

I’ve found theme here:

http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/opensuse/nvidia/download.nvidia.com/opensuse/

both packages are absolutely necessary, also their version must be synchronized. After the installation, you can run

SaX2 0=nvidia

and set up the correct resolution. The dual screens and other tricks are not treeted here.

then I’ve run nvidia-xconfig with:

nvidia-xconfig –no-allow-dfp-stereo –allow-glx-with-composite –composite –depth=24 -a –no-logo

or

nvidia-xconfig –add-argb-glx-visuals –allow-glx-with-composite –depth=24 -a –load-kernel-module –no-logo –multigpu=ON –no-sli –no-stereo –no-xinerama

to get composit among the options.

After you must set up in YaST -> Sysconfig -> … -> XServer -> xorg

it’s not XGL. But don’t worry if you set up right all the three things will function.

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