Desktop Effects and ATI FGLRX

[flying_squirrel]

I have fglrx drivers installed for my radeon x1300 and have them set as the default drivers, but for some reason I cannnot get desktop effects to work. This is probably a common problem but I can't seem to find a solution. Any help?

My Xorg.conf file is below:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "False"
EndSection

[sideways]

You need to install Xgl to get desktop effects with the fglrx driver
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=121119

Alternatively, use the fedora 'radeon' driver which has less performance but works with AIGLX
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...&highlight=ati

[leigh123linux]

you will need to add this to the end of your xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

[flying_squirrel]

On step 3 of installing xgl, I get this error:

Error Downloading Packages:
fedora-xgl-settings - 0.0.1-2.noarch: failure: fedora-xgl-settings-0.0.1-2.noarch.rpm from fedora-xgl: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Anybody know what to do? Thanks.

[flying_squirrel]

Does anybody have a copy of "fedora-xgl-settings-0.0.1-2.noarch.rpm" for i686 (or i386)? because yum is not finding it.

[leigh123linux]

you have google go and look for it

[leigh123linux]

start at post #999

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...page=100&pp=10