Rahul Sundaram spake thusly: > 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? ;) > > Well Nvidia's proprietary driver won't work the latest Xorg in rawhide. > I consider that a feature ;-) Without that, you can't enable Compiz. > Besides, IIRC one of the Compiz maintainers said that the current > version is busted and there is a version bump in an update. > > Rahul I thought the proprietary drivers were only available from rpm.livna.org or nVidia directly. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
