"Your system does not support 3D desktop effects"

[yeshe]

Trying to configure the 3D desktop effects I get the message "Your system does not support 3D desktop effects" and the option "Compiz Fusion" is not allowed. Is this dependent on which graphic card and driver I use?

I got a Nvidia GeForce 6200 card and the "Geforce 6100 and later" driver. Is there no psossibility to use Compiz with this hardware?

(Processor is AMD 2800 and motherboard is Asus K8N)

[yeshe]

Strange... I checked in synaptic, and found that the Nvidia driver for Nvidia 6xxx was not installed. Despite this , in "set up the graphical server" the choosen driver was "Nvidia 6100..." was choosen. Is there no way to check which driver is installed and in use? I thought I did that in the "set up the graphical server", graphic card - section...

Anyway, I installed the proper driver with synaptic and now I can choose Compiz.

Every day is learning !

[malc]

I had similar problems. In the end I ignored the 3D effects and ran "Compiz Fusion Icon" anyway and from there all the compiz/emerald stuff.

[marian]

Dudes if you have troubles with your graphics card just run LiveCD of PCLOS and copy from union/etc/X11/ "xorg.conf" file to /etc/X11/ on your root partition.
This may be very helpful sometimes. 

[Randymanme]

Dudes if you have troubles with your graphics card just run LiveCD of PCLOS and copy from union/etc/X11/ "xorg.conf" file to /etc/X11/ on your root partition.
This may be very helpful sometimes. 

I was just browsing, hoping I might learn something.  Will someone explain to a noob how and why that advice might be helpful?

[marian]

Dudes if you have troubles with your graphics card just run LiveCD of PCLOS and copy from union/etc/X11/ "xorg.conf" file to /etc/X11/ on your root partition.
This may be very helpful sometimes. 

I was just browsing, hoping I might learn something.  Will someone explain to a noob how and why that advice might be helpful?

There are other ways to fix problems with graphics. Using the video command or XFdrake --auto. I also collected my limited knowledge by searching on this friendly forum. 

[malc]

Ignore it!  I spent hours trying to solve this, eventually I just ran compiz anyway and it worked.  However the KDE4 3D effects don't work, well not fully anyway.  Again I gave up trying to find out why.

all the best,

Malcolm, with rotating cubes and wobbly windows and no 3D effects.......supposedly

[nerdful1]

I found video was disappeared.

Really hope (but expect)  2010 will be the end of the PCLinuxOS 'depression".