nvidia 140M D830 enable desktop effects

marinestu · #1 15th August 2009, 04:49 PM

Hello All

Please see the below how to on enabling desktop effects for a Dell D830. There are some great docs out there but most seemed to miss out some good bits that I have found in others. I have attached the links that I found most useful as a reff to the sites that were the most useful. I hope that this is of some help to you guys with nvidia 140M cards.

Stu

Setup Compiz on Fedora 10 posably 11

1. Add custom repos

#rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm

#http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fed...9-2.noarch.rpm

Add rpms needed for the 140M 3d card

#yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

#yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i386 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64

Add this to the /etc/x11/xorg.conf

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

#reboot

Run the below command to see if the glx drivers have loaded
#glxinfo | grep direct

direct rendering: Yes
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,

Now you should be able to turn on desktop effects. If this also works with Fedora 11 please let me know.

Thanks

Stuart

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...ia-9600gt.html

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/...drivers_nvidia

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...failed-686923/