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

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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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