[nflug] FC6 + ATI 1600 PRO + Desktop Candy

Frank Kumro fkumro at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 15:05:46 EST 2006


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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Frank
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