On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:11:10 am Kevin Kofler wrote: > Armelius Cameron wrote: > > One of our machines has the following card (as reported by lspci): > > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev > > a1) > > > > I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped > > nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says > > that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both > > OpenGL and XRender for compositing option. <snipped? > It's the same driver, but there are different code paths for different > chipsets. There might be some problem with the XRender implementation on > the 8600GT. You can try Fedora 15 Beta (try the KDE Live image if you > don't want to install F15 yet). Fedora 15 Beta will be officially released > today. (The final Fedora 15 release is currently scheduled for May 24.) > > For OpenGL support, you can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, but I don't > think the version in Fedora 14 will work with KWin. Fedora 15 ships OpenGL > support for Nouveau by default; to my knowledge, whether KWin desktop > effects work with it hasn't been tested yet. (Again, you should be able to > test it with the Fedora 15 Beta KDE Live image.) I see. Thanks for the info, Kevin. I'll try the F15 live image when I get chance on this machine. Best, AC _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
