FC6 aiglx/compiz

Brian Gaynor briang at pmccorp.com
Wed Oct 25 17:13:11 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:35 +0200, Eric Donkersloot wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to get aiglx/compiz to work on my FC6 box, I installed the 9626
> beta driver from livna, which is working fine. However, every time I try to
> use the 'Desktop Effects' application in Gnome to enable the 3d effects I
> get the following error message:
> 
> 'Desktop effects could no be enabled'
> 
> I've searched the logs for a more detailed error message, unfortunately I
> didn't find any. My card is a Geforce FX 5200, my xorg.conf is listed below:

As Alexandru Ciobanu mentioned 

Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

seemed to do the trick for me. You can launch desktop-effects from a
terminal instead of from the preferences menu to see more detailed error
messages (they don't seem to make it into a log file).

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC5/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 10:10:35 up 1:37, 1 user, 
load average: 0.53, 0.37, 0.52 





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