Blacklisting KDE's desktop effects

[Felix Miata]

NB I blacklisted a bunch of intel chipsets from using KDE's desktop effects
before 11.4 was released, but only the ones I know have problems.

I just installed 11.4 to Intel 820 P3/933MHz with 512M RAM & onboard nVidia
NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15), Dell GX200, and enabled FX
are insanely slow with Xorg's default choice to use nouveau.
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[Stan Goodman]

On Saturday 19 March 2011 at 11:56:34 (GMT+2) Will Stephenson

NB I blacklisted a bunch of intel chipsets from using KDE's desktop
effects before 11.4 was released, but only the ones I know have
problems.

What are those blacklisted chipsets? Where have you listed them?

[James Knott]

* Is the lockup/display fade issue specific to KDE? Try choosing IceWM from
the login screen instead

I can log in with IceWM and KDE failsafe desktops

* If so, perhaps the video driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have.
** Boot to runlevel 3 (add '3' to the kernel params in the bootloader)
** Login as user
** Run "kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled false"
** (this edits kwinrc for you)
** Switch to runlevel 5 (init 5) and login
* If not specific to KDE, perhaps your hardware does not support modesetting -
boot with kernel param 'nomodeset'

The above didn't help.

[James Knott]

openSUSE build service - its a major feature of openSUSE and has tons
of add-in packages. KDE 3.5 for openSUSE is maintained in OBS repos
only, so you have to look there for them.
You should read:http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3

That didn't fix the problem with the shifting desktop. It looks like
neither 11.3 nor 11.4 will work on this computer. I'll have to restore
the 11.0 image.