Unersolved issues with FC6?
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Nov 15 22:53:36 UTC 2006
> 2) I can't enable "Desktop Effects". Is some special hardware
> required?
Probably not that special hardware, but probably special drivers.
If you have an ATI or NVIDIA graphics card, you will need the properity
drivers. even then, not all work. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx
for details.
For inbuilt intel stuff I gather the inbuilt driver handles 3D out the box,
but I don't have one so cannot be sure.
If you do need to install the binary nivida or ati drivers, both are available
from livna
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna
I use nvidia, and if you do also let me strongly recommend the livna route
instead of the "default" or "official" nvidia binary installer. It will save
you problems in the long run... (search this list for details).
I have never used ATI but I gather there are also drivers.
for nvidia, you can install the driver with
> yun install kmod-nvidia
or ati with (I think)
> yum install kmod-fglrx
for either you will need at minimum
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
in your xorg.conf file. Maybe something else, I'm not sure...
If you have other problems, let us know :)
Chris
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