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. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
