[nflug] FC6 + ATI 1600 PRO + Desktop Candy

Stephen Burke qfwfq at adelphia.net
Fri Dec 15 22:01:58 EST 2006


Cyber Source wrote:
> Stephen Burke 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$-like, though it seems to have gotten a bit better lately.
>>Check here:
>>http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/nVIDIA#Adding_Beryl_repository
>>
>>
>>I had already gotten the nvidia driver going here before I saw that
>>unfortunately, since the method on that page looks easier, but the
>>beryl part works flawlessly. In gnome, anyway. KDE doesn't seem to
>>want to start properly here but I'm not sure if that's beryl or kde,
>>since I've never started kde before on this system (only grabbed it
>>for konqueror, kuickshow, ktorrent, etc).
>>
>>Fewer clicks in an ubuntu install, too, as I recall.
>>alt-n works nicely, too, I've found.
>>;-),
>>S.
>>
>>p.s. f8 in beryl - thumbs of all open windows on all desktops - is a
>>particularly tasty feature. Even scales moving video with no problem.
>>Still busy ringing all the bells and blowing all the whistles.
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> 
> Gnome boring and M$ like??!!
> I think you'll find a few to argue that one. I mean we are all entitled
> to opinions but from my experience, if there was one factor that drove
> people AWAY from Linux, it was KDE. Too much fluff, confusing, redundant
> menus, etc., and apps that seem to promise more than they can deliver.
> IMHO of course.
> I've been loving Gnome for about the past 6 years or so, and back then
> it was surely lacking, but it just keeps getting better and better. It
> seems your a Gnome guy as well, just the M$ parody made me chime in.
> Don't wanna start a flame war out there people, just my opinion and I'm
> shooting one in for the Gnome guys ;)
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hehe.

Just doing my part to keep conversation lively around here. I had a 
feeling that might ruffle a feather or two. Couldn't agree more about 
kde and useless crap, however. If anything, I guess kde really is the 
more M$-like, now that gnome has changed the menus around since when I 
stopped using it. Generally, I use enlightenment, and what really turned 
me against gnome was not being able to start nautilus without the whole 
damn desktop starting up and wiping out all my e menus.

One thing that both e and kde have over gnome, however, unless I'm 
mistaken, is the ability to put a different picture on each desktop, so 
I can tell where I am at a glance. I've been searching for that and not 
finding it in gnome. Is it even possible or should I just give that one up?

Thanks,
S.
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