On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 00:54 +0000, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
I'm running Fedora 9 Beta i686.
When I attempt to enable desktop effects (System --> Preferences --->
Look & Feel ---> Desktop Effects). The box to enable them pops up, I
click "Enable Desktop Effects". The screen blanks out and is totally
white. It then returns after I hit the escape key (it took a bit to
figure that out) and I'm back to the "enable" box again.
At that point I just clicked "close".
No desktop effects.
$ sudo /sbin/lspci | grep nVidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800
GT] (rev a1)
That card has 256MB of RAM. I've had no trouble with Compiz recently in
Betas of Mandriva or Ubuntu.
Is this a bug or a feature? ;)
Any ideas?
Curiously,
Scott
Fedora (rightly) doesn't include the nvidia driver since it's licensing
doesn't allow it. The best place to get nvidia is at
http://rpm.livna.org I use livna for all me nvidia needs and compiz
works fine (along with suspend/resume).
That said, with the switch to the new Xorg version, nvidia haven't get
around to supporting this version yet, so it's not going to work
regardless.
nag nvidia.
R.
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It's much better on my side"