Re: Can't enable desktop effects in Fedora 9 Beta (GNOME)

["Scott (angrykeyboarder)" <geekboy angrykeyboarder com>]

Rodd Clarkson spake thusly:


> Fedora (rightly) doesn't include the nvidia driver since it's licensing
> doesn't allow it.

And here I thought Debian was the most anal-retentive distro on the 
planet. ;)


http://packages.debian.org/etch/nvidia-glx


>  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.


Ubuntu's development distro (8.04) is using xorg 7.3.3 (as is Fedora 9) 
and the nVidia drivers (which are in their non-free repo) work just fine 
(as does Compiz). 

Now if they could get sound to work as it does in Fedora 9 (I'm an OS 
junkie)..

But I digress....

I was under the impression that Compiz was supposed to work with non-
propitiatory 3D-drivers (although I've yet to see that).

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