[nflug] FC6 + ATI 1600 PRO + Desktop Candy

[Cyber Source]

Stephen Burke 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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I remember that being an issue with me too back in the day. Also was the
fact that I couldn't change the desktop font color. I guess the powers
that be for Gnome think these 2 things aren't important. At least I
don't know if it is changed, maybe it has, I gave up on those 2 issues
long ago. Anyone know?
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