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1st November 2006, 12:51 AM
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How-to Desktop effects easy in Fedora 6
1. Get nvidia beta driver install:
yum install kmod-nvidia --enablerepo=livna-testing
2. Get Xorg.conf ready:
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true
Add the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection
In the "Device" section, add:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
In the "Module" section, add:
Load "extmod"
3. Logout, login again and type: desktop-effects
Enable the effects. 
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1st November 2006, 01:21 AM
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what about us ATi folks???
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1st November 2006, 02:25 AM
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With AIGLX, ATI users currently only have the option of using the radeon drivers that ship with Fedora. AMD(ATI) released new drivers today, however they still don't support AIGLX. Until they do, it's either use the out of the box drivers for radeon or use the ATI drivers and get XGL working instead of AIGLX.
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1st November 2006, 02:31 AM
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ATI folks, try following, If compiz is installed then type desktop-effects for me ATI is working much faster then nvidia
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1st November 2006, 03:11 AM
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OMG thanks so much its UBER !!!
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1st November 2006, 03:14 AM
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how do I install compiz, can I yum install it? Sorry if this is a dumb Q, new to Linux myself
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1st November 2006, 06:53 PM
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I've been thinking about doing this - but I wonder if it's worth the hastle, how long will it take before these "testing"drivers are public?... I've never been that bothered that I've watched one go through testing to general so don't know how long it would usually be.
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1st November 2006, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by snoze
ATI folks, try following, If compiz is installed then type desktop-effects for me ATI is working much faster then nvidia
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I've noticed that too. (ATI Radeon Mobility 6 in a laptop.)
Dan
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1st November 2006, 09:31 PM
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I am running an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 on a IBM T30. I am getting a garbled screen. This is being tracked on another thread http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=133553 There is a screen shot too.
Any ATI tips for any of us? I know this works on a T41 but I have had no luck on my T30.
Thanks for any tips you may have.
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1st November 2006, 09:43 PM
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Can't help you much. It worked out of the box here, so didn't have to hunt up any fixes. And I AIN'T gonna screw it up, just to try to fix it again 
Dan
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3rd November 2006, 02:41 PM
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Thanks for this it worked great for me
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7th November 2006, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by snoze
ATI folks, try following, If compiz is installed then type desktop-effects for me ATI is working much faster then nvidia
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can you share your xorg.conf? i have an ati also in my laptop but can't enable desktop-effects.
i have enough og fglrx already.  .....
thanks so much in advance....
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12th November 2006, 09:25 PM
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Weird things happen with my screen when trying this...
Does any know what this is that I'm appearently missing?
Code:
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig is missing
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12th November 2006, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by rlozano
can you share your xorg.conf? i have an ati also in my laptop but can't enable desktop-effects.
i have enough og fglrx already. .....
thanks so much in advance.... |
Here is my xorg.conf file... Hope it helps!!
-Rich
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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13th November 2006, 06:33 AM
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I am getting the following:
desktop-effects command not found
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