[nflug] FC6 + ATI 1600 PRO + Desktop Candy

[matt donovan]

well with Nvidia9 drivers you don't need XGL or AIGLX since the drivers does
the support by itself, I tend to like that way better even though soon I
will have to start using legacy drivers for my card

On 12/15/06, Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> 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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