On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:11:10 am Kevin Kofler wrote:
Armelius Cameron wrote:
> One of our machines has the following card (as reported by lspci):
> VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev
> a1)
>
> I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped
> nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says
> that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both
> OpenGL and XRender for compositing option.
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It's the same driver, but there are different code paths for
different
chipsets. There might be some problem with the XRender implementation on
the 8600GT. You can try Fedora 15 Beta (try the KDE Live image if you
don't want to install F15 yet). Fedora 15 Beta will be officially released
today. (The final Fedora 15 release is currently scheduled for May 24.)
For OpenGL support, you can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, but I don't
think the version in Fedora 14 will work with KWin. Fedora 15 ships OpenGL
support for Nouveau by default; to my knowledge, whether KWin desktop
effects work with it hasn't been tested yet. (Again, you should be able to
test it with the Fedora 15 Beta KDE Live image.)
I see. Thanks for the info, Kevin. I'll try the F15 live image when I get
chance on this machine.
Best,
AC