major problem after enabling desktop effects (F9)...

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:44:12 Mike Chalmers wrote:
> On 7/16/08, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:08:58 Mike Chalmers wrote:
> >  > I do not have a video driver installed. I have Googled how to disable
> >  > desktop effects and haven't found anything really useful.
> >
> > *Something* helps your video chips to talk to your monitor :-)  I wasn't
> >  referring to proprietary drivers.  I'm not on that box at the moment, so
> > I can't check which package it was.  I'll try to find it among my mail.
> >
> >  > Does anyone know a command that I can use from init 3 to disable
> >  > desktop effects?
> >
> > I don't think you ever made it clear whether we are talking about kde or
> >  gnome, compiz or kde4 desktop effects.
> >
> >
> >  Anne
> >
> > --
>
> Thank you for the help Anne. I am talking about KDE 4. The only video
> driver I have installed is the one that came with Fedora 9.

Ditto.  However, just about a week ago a routine update installed 
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386.  This is the package that is suspected of 
being the cause of the problem.  Do you have that one?

Desktop effects - try System Settings > Desktop and uncheck 'Enable desktop 
effects'.  These are not compiz-type effects, but things you can easily live 
without until things get fixed.  HTH

Anne
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