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

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Rahul Sundaram spake thusly:

> 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


I thought the proprietary drivers were only available from rpm.livna.org 
or nVidia directly.