Desktop Effects not enabling,

[wrongopinions]

hello everyone....I have recently installed fedora 7 and pretty new to it all... but still hacking it

I have it installed on my external hard drive, all the basics seem to be running just fine. I tried to enable desktop effects, but it produced an error. So I tried running it through the terminal so I would get a more detailed error:

gtk-window-decorator: Could not acquire decoration manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

after searching around forums I have found similar but not the same error message. From what I read, my best guess is that I have to update my video card driver. My video card is a GeForce Go 7400. Since I thought this, I have tried yum install kmod-nvidia.i686. This operated succesfully and ended with "nothing to do". I also tried another update command (which I cannot recall what it was) but it returned that nothing was marked for update/removal.

My screen resolution is set to 1680 x 1050, I have 2gb of ram, and a centrino duo in a laptop (if those matter).

thanks for any help.

[Dies]

It ends with "nothing to do" for 2 reasons, either it didn't find any package by that name or the package is already installed. ;)

Since I know you're new I'll assume you haven't set up any third party repos yet, those are needed to access "non-free" software like the Nvidia drivers and multimedia codecs, etc. By the way don't mix third party repos, don't have Livna enabled at the same time as freshrpms or atrpms, etc. Unless you like problems.

Go to Administration>Security Level and Firewall then click on the Selinux tab and set it to Permissive in the drop down menu, this is only temporary.

Open a terminal and run the following

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia -y

That will install the third party repo Livna along with the right driver for your card, you can re-start X with ctrl-alt-backspace or reboot and you should be good.

You can set Selinux back to enforcing after applying the following fix :

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=801124&postcount=17

By the way you will probably want to install some multimedia codecs, this should get you most of what you need

yum --exclude=gstreamer-plugins-*-devel* install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins* libdvd*

Here's a good how-to

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html

[wrongopinions]

and again Dies saves me........


hopefully I dont continually get stuck, Ive been hacking most of the little stuff

thanks again Dies