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

[David Nielsen]

2008/3/30, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>:
>
> 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


Don't feel bad, at least you have X, my X disappeared entirely a few days
ago - and I'm on the vernable free r200 driver. X is kinda.. featureful when
it comes to not working at the moment.
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