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

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 00:54 +0000, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 9 Beta i686.
> 
> When I attempt to enable desktop effects (System --> Preferences ---> 
> Look & Feel ---> Desktop Effects). The box to enable them pops up, I 
> click "Enable Desktop Effects". The screen blanks out and is totally 
> white. It then returns after I hit the escape key (it took a bit to 
> figure that out) and I'm back to the "enable" box again. 
> 
> At that point I just clicked "close".
> 
> No desktop effects.
> 
> $ sudo /sbin/lspci | grep nVidia
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 
> GT] (rev a1)
> 
> That card has 256MB of RAM. I've had no trouble with Compiz recently in 
> Betas of Mandriva or Ubuntu.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature? ;)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Curiously,
> 
> 	Scott
> 
Fedora (rightly) doesn't include the nvidia driver since it's licensing
doesn't allow it.  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.

nag nvidia.


R.

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