Beryl Manager Not Working in FEDORA 7

[Sergey Katalichenka]

BTW, Beryl is no longer supported, they went to the compiz-fusion.

Anyway, here the link for the install.

http://wiki.kagesenshi.org/moin.fcgi/CategoryPackages/CompizFusion

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:18 -0400, rodrigo morales wrote:

> Fedora recommends users install a 3rd-party RPM packaged driver
> instead of using the installer from Nvidia's website. Currently Livna
> provides a well packaged driver.
> 
> For yum only:
> 
> First, setup Livna Repository
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
> 
> 
> Install the nvidia driver through Livna:
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia
> 
> 
> If a kernel update is installed at the same time, then a reboot will
> be required. If not, then simply log out completely of Gnome or KDE
> and the Nvidia driver should load. The Nvidia logo will flash quickly
> once.
> 
> For users without yum
> 
> Download the http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm RPM and run:
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh livna-release-7.rpm
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
> 
> 
> Navigate to http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/7/ and select your
> architecture: i386, x86_64 or ppc. You will need 3 components: xorg
> driver, nvidia kernel module and a livna display configuration
> utility.
> 
> For xorg driver, select the one matching the latest Nvidia driver
> (1.0.9762). For example:
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9762-2.lvn7.i386.rpm.
> 
> For nvidia kernel driver you MUST MATCH YOUR KERNEL. Use the uname
> command for the proper match. For example:
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ uname -rm
> 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 i686
> 
> 
> Selected: kmod-nvidia-1.0.9762-1.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7.i686.rpm
> 
> The display configuration utility should be named livna-config-display
> (example: livna-config-display-0.0.11-1.lvn7.noarch.rpm).
> 
> Install all files at the same time:
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon downloads]$ sudo rpm -ivh kmod-nvidia-1.0.9762-1.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7.i686.rpm \
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9762-2.lvn7.i386.rpm \
> livna-config-display-0.0.11-1.lvn7.noarch.rpm 
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> 
>    1:livna-config-display   ########################################### [ 33%]
>    2:kmod-nvidia            ########################################### [ 67%]
>    3:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia    ########################################### [100%]
> 
> 
> 
> If you had a previous version of these files before, remove them first
> with rpm -e.
> 
> If you cannot find a perfect match you may will have to update to a
> kernel that matches from Fedora 7 Updates.
> 
> NOTE: SELinux Problems SELinux seems to prevent the v9755 Livna Nvidia
> Driver from properly loading after a reboot. This has been fixed in
> the v9762 Livna package. The following is a TEMPORARY work around:
> 
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/chcon -cv system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> 
> 
> If you are having this problem or unsure, please use yum to update:
> yum update nvidia-kmod.
> 
> 
> 
> from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html#nvidia
> 
> personally use this to form my nvidia and does not give problems me
> with beryl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2007/10/4, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
> 
>         sou1234321 wrote:
>         
>         > Please note that, inspite of having successfully installed
>         the Beryl 
>         > Manager, it's not working at all...!
>         >
>         > HARDWARE:
>         > NVIDIA GeForce 6200-GT Turbo (successfully detected by
>         FEDORA)
>         >
>         > Even when I am trying to enable the desktop effects, it's
>         showing that it 
>         > cannot be done...!
>         >
>         > Why so? Please help...
>         
>         Your video hardware/driver needs to support it (hardware
>         accelerated opengl
>         mostly).
>         
>         -- Rex
>         
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