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

[Andrew Farris]

Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson spake thusly:
> 
> 
>> Fedora (rightly) doesn't include the nvidia driver since it's licensing
>> doesn't allow it.
> 
> 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.

>>  The best place to get nvidia is at
>> http://rpm.livna.org   I use livna for all me nvidia needs and compiz
>> works fine (along with suspend/resume).
>>
>> That said, with the switch to the new Xorg version, nvidia haven't get
>> around to supporting this version yet, so it's not going to work
>> regardless.
> 
> 
> Ubuntu's development distro (8.04) is using xorg 7.3.3 (as is Fedora 9) 
> and the nVidia drivers (which are in their non-free repo) work just fine 
> (as does Compiz). 
> 
> Now if they could get sound to work as it does in Fedora 9 (I'm an OS 
> junkie)..

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

> 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 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.

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