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

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Andrew Farris spake thusly:

>> And here I thought Debian was the most anal-retentive distro on the
>> planet. ;)
>> 
>> 
>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/nvidia-glx
> 
> Law-abiding vs anal-retentive.

LOL.

[...]

> Yeah I'm quite happy with how pulseaudio is working in F9 now too.

I don't know what they are doing right, but my hat is off to the Fedora 
devs who somehow got it right. *Nobody* has been able to give me sound in 
quite some time.

> 
>> But I digress....
>> 
>> I was under the impression that Compiz was supposed to work with non-
>> propitiatory 3D-drivers (although I've yet to see that).
> 
> Not with the Xserver 1.5 which is in F9 as 1.4.99.xx and has a changed
> ABI that the proprietary drivers have yet to update for. 

I see.

> I used
> compiz-fusion from the repo I'm mirroring (url in sig) in F8 and it
> works very nicely with both ATI and nVidia's drivers.

Yes, but we are talking about F9 here. 



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