Can't enable desktop effects in Fedora 9 Beta (GNOME)
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 30 01:10:11 UTC 2008
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? ;)
Well Nvidia's proprietary driver won't work the latest Xorg in rawhide.
I consider that a feature ;-) Without that, you can't enable Compiz.
Besides, IIRC one of the Compiz maintainers said that the current
version is busted and there is a version bump in an update.
Rahul
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