[nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher

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OK: I downloaded the proprietary ATI driver and ran the app that was 
instructed for me to run, whose name illudes me at the moment.  3ddesk 
ran BUT refresh rate was limited to 60 hz.  This told me that I had to 
change the monitor, so I went to System Settings|Display, went to the 
second tab, and chose it.  HOWEVER, when I went back to this the monitor 
was set back to unknown monitor, and therefore my only choice for 
refresh rate was still limited to 60 hz.  Since I don't like my system 
to give me seizures,

	and since I had wisely made a copy of xorg.conf,

I switched back to the old xorg.conf and here I am.  I just took a look 
at file permissions for both versions of this file, suspecting that that 
may be an issue, but their permissions are the same.  I'm going to stick 
to my original config for now.  It seems not worth it, with the refresh 
rate, PLUS the fact that when I VNC to this machine from another one, 
the resulting display does funky things like display only the parts of 
the menu that the mouse pointer hovers over.  Perhaps I should've gone 
for an NVIDIA-based vid card.  Nevertheless, thanks for all the help 
everyone.  I had a good lesson in dealing with ATI products.

And, by the way, the OS was installed on top of the new system, so the 
video card came before the OS.
> 
> 
> As Jesse said, the problem is definitely that you don't have openGL working on your system.
> 
> If you run "glxinfo |grep render" I'm sure that it will say "No" to "Direct Rendering". Does that driver come from ATI? I've never used their binary drivers but I have a 9250 128M PCI (R200 chipset) right now and it works fine with just the kernel module. I'm not sure how easy FC4 makes it get at the kernel source. And chances are that the module is already built. Also you need to make sure that /etc/X11/xorg.conf knows about your card and how to use it. Mine looks like this;
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "videocard0"
>     Driver      "radeon"
> EndSection
> 
> If the ATI driver is just called something a little different, it may just be a matter of changing the "Driver" to that. Helpful information can be found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (Is there an error? Did the driver load? etc...).
> 
> There is a whole agenda with getting 3d working. AGP support and mobo chipset support needs to be enabled. Most of the newer distros (like FC4) have all of this configured though. I'm kind of surprised that fc4 didn't pick up on it and get it working. Did you add the card *after* your initial installation?
> 
> Here's some ATI driver stuff that could help.
> https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1177
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.20.8-inst.html
> 
> Let us know how it goes.
> 
> -Josh
> 
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>>. . . > Thanks guys, this is too freakin cool! I went to sourceforge and they
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>>>had an rpm for FC4 that was like 82k! Downloaded and installed in 
>>>Gnome, works beautifully!
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