Desktop effects question (nVidia)

[Neal Becker]

Martin Kho wrote:

>> The problem with the rpmfusion installation is that they are usually a
>> bit
>>  behind the kernel updates. So, if you've updated your kernel and then
>>  rebooted before your computer has been updated to the matching rpmfusion
>>  builds, its very likely that your xorg.conf is loading the vesa driver.
>> 
>> Eli
>> 
>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 00:43:20 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Out of curiosity,
>> > I am using rpmfusions Nvidia drivers but I can't get any of KDE's
>> > desktop effects to work, everything else seems fine. Is this a known
>> > problem?
>> >
>> > All was fine in F11, I've tried to search for some info but no luck so
>> > far.
>> >
>> > Clean install - F12/KDE-4.3.4
> 
> FWIW, on a *real* clean F12 install (KDE 4.3.3), I use nouveau and have
> desktop effects working with the xrender compositing type :-)
> 
I tried nouveau, but gave up when I tried to watch an HD video.  Any luck 
with that?