no desktop effects in Trusty

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday, March 30, 2014 10:22:45 AM Glenn Holmer wrote:
> I have Trusty installed and up to date on a desktop machine, and it
> won't render some of the desktop effects I normally use (e.g. wobbly
> windows, magic lamp), either with nouveau or the propreitaty nvidia
> driver. It's now running the nvidia driver (lsmod shows nvidia and not
> nouveau) at version 331.38-0ubuntu6. This is not a small machine (Intel
> i7 @3.6GHz w/8 cores, 16G RAM).
> 
> The error I see in when clicking the Detail button in systemsettings is
> "effect requires OpenGL", but both kinfocenter and the Nvidia server
> settings dialog show OpenGL information. The graphics card is a GeForce
> GTX650 (kinfocenter shows OpenGL/ES version 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.38).
> 
> Is anybody else having issues with this on Trusty? Any advice?

Yup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1299499[1] 

Either revert to the previous kernel, or wait until it is fixed.


Clay Weber (claydoh)
http://kubuntuforums.net[2]
http://claydoh.com[3] 

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[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1299499
[2] http://kubuntuforums.net

[3] http://claydoh.com
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