KDE4 Not Able to Start Compositing (Nvidia Driver)

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Hello,

I am not sure if this should be posted here or in X11. I have a fresh install of 8.0-RELEASE-p2 and have built everything from ports. I am using kde4 (4.3.5) and the nvidia driver 195.36.15. When I attempt to turn-on compositing in the Desktop Effects - System Settings, the Compositing always says temporarily disabled. Hitting Resume Compositing results in an error that it has been suspended by another application.

I am running TwinView. I do load the nvidia driver in /boot/loader.conf. I also appear to have glx support with the driver. The video card is a GeForce GTX 285. All of this worked fine when I had PC-BSD installed for a couple of days, so I know that it should be able to work on this workstation. I do not get an nvidia splash screen. Also, just checking that on freebsd loging out and logging back in does restart X.

Thanks for any suggestions.

aric

My xorg.conf file is here. I will try to submit the Xorg.log file in another posting, it is too large to post now.

Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (root@freebsd-7846)  Thu Apr 29 10:37:40 PDT 2010


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"    
EndSection                                   

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" 
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"           
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"          
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"         
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"          
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"       
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"            
EndSection                                                     

Section "Module"
    Load            "extmod"
    Load            "glx"   
EndSection                  

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0" 
    Driver         "mouse"  
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"  
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Device         "GeForce GTX 285"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "1"
#    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
#    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1600+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
 
I will move this to X11 as I finally found an error in the Xorg.log file, though it seems odd.

thanks,
 
aorchid said:
My xorg.conf file is here. I will try to submit the Xorg.log file in another posting, it is too large to post now.

Try grabbing only the errors from your Xorg log
[cmd=]grep "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log[/cmd]

edit: Aha, you reported your error-finding just as I typed my message
 
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