[nflug] FC6 + ATI 1600 PRO + Desktop Candy

Stephen Burke qfwfq at adelphia.net
Fri Dec 15 16:50:42 EST 2006


Not sure. Didn't see any of those letters in config.
Is there an easy way to find out?

Card is like this:

$ lspci

00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 
4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

S.

Frank Kumro wrote:
> Are you using XGL or AiGLX? I have to pick because this is the route
> im going now :)
> 
> On 12/15/06, Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
>> Frank Kumro wrote:
>> > Has anyone been able to get this to work ? Im looking to install FC6
>> > for the eye candy but I dont feel like doing all the work (yea the 10
>> > clicks are too much for me) to install it and have no eye candy. On
>> > the fedora forums I've read alot of complaints about 6 and nvidia/ati.
>> > This shared among anyone on the lug?
>> >
>> Dunno about ati, but nvidia + fcx has been consistenlty ugly around here
>> with various nvidia cards - won't start X for fc (or blag), or if it
>> does, like the blag50k install which I can't seem to do twice, it won't
>> let me back to the CL to install the driver, using either init 3 or
>> ctrl-alt-f1 - just locks up and shows me a garbled version of the
>> "welcome to...!" non-X screen -> then reboot. All this despite setting
>> bios to PCI first for video. Recognizes card, then fails to find a
>> monitor on the notherboard video card. Very strange. Had problems with
>> suse, too -maybe it's an rpm thing. Haven't been able to boot the fc6
>> dvd anywhere around here.
>>
>> If you're looking for EASY eye candy, I'm having lots of fun with beryl
>> on edgy. It's even allowing me to happily use gnome which I had to stop
>> using years ago simply because it is so mind-numbingly boring and
>> M$-like, though it seems to have gotten a bit better lately.
>> Check here:
>> http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/nVIDIA#Adding_Beryl_repository 
>>
>>
>> I had already gotten the nvidia driver going here before I saw that
>> unfortunately, since the method on that page looks easier, but the beryl
>> part works flawlessly. In gnome, anyway. KDE doesn't seem to want to
>> start properly here but I'm not sure if that's beryl or kde, since I've
>> never started kde before on this system (only grabbed it for konqueror,
>> kuickshow, ktorrent, etc).
>>
>> Fewer clicks in an ubuntu install, too, as I recall.
>> alt-n works nicely, too, I've found.
>> ;-),
>> S.
>>
>> p.s. f8 in beryl - thumbs of all open windows on all desktops - is a
>> particularly tasty feature. Even scales moving video with no problem.
>> Still busy ringing all the bells and blowing all the whistles.
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