F7 NVIDIA drivers and compiz

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Jun 3 13:31:35 UTC 2007


Bernd Bartmann writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed the NVIDIA drivers from LIVNA to get my dual-head setup
> working as the stock xorg nv driver is totally broken when two
> monitors are connected to the same graphics card.
> 
> Now I wanted to test the shiny new graphics effects offered by compiz,
> but I can't get compiz to work at all. It always tells me:
> 
> compiz: No RandR extension

This indicates that Nvidia's binary blob does not implement an X extension 
that's required by compiz.

> Right now I'm running metacity without any problem.

metacity probably does not require the server to have the RandR extension.


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