Video problems upgrading to Fedora 9

[tron_thomas]

I just upgraded my Intel system from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. When I boot into the system, I cannot enable Desktop Effects. Also when I log in to a KDE session, I get no window decorations, like a title bar etc., for any opened windows.

I suspect these issue are due to the video driver. My system has an nVidia based graphics adapter.

What can I do to fix these problems?

[glennzo]

Maybe this thread will help sort things out for you.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...ghlight=compiz

[jjesurun]

start in safe mode and edit the xorg.conf file, if the driver says vesa, change it to nv

[tron_thomas]

I tried following the directions in the thread. I'm not sure I did everything right as it looked like some tricky operations were glossed over and not covered with a lot of depth.

After going through everything, I'm now left with application that contain no options for configuring compiz. Also, I still have no decorations when I run a KDE session.

[glennzo]

A little vague tron_thomas. Compiz can be a pain to get working. Witness the length of that thread and many others on the same subject. I'm certainly no expert on the subject but I wonder what happens when you hit ALT/F2 and type fusion-icon. Do you get a blue icon in the top panel?

[tron_thomas]

I tried running fusion-icon. I did not see anything show up on the screen. What is the top panel? I only have a panel at the bottom of the screen. I am running Gnome, not KDE, at the moment.

[glennzo]

The top panel is the bar at the top of the screen with the menu items such as Applications, Places and System. If fusion-icon works there will appear a square blue icon in that panel. Try going through the instructions in that thread. There is a tool called compiz check mentioned there. It will check to see if your system has what's needed to run compiz-fusion. Have you tried that?