KDE & Desktop Effect with Nvidia GeForce 8600GT

Armelius Cameron armeliusc at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 11:36:55 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:11:10 am Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > One of our machines  has the following card (as reported by lspci):
> > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600GT] (rev
> > a1)
> > 
> > I have F14 x86-64 on the machine, fully updated. I use the shipped
> > nouveau driver. I tried to enable desktop effect but a pop-up box says
> > that it cannot enable desktop effect after I hit "Apply". I tried both
> > OpenGL and XRender for compositing option.
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> It's the same driver, but there are different code paths for different
> chipsets. There might be some problem with the XRender implementation on
> the 8600GT. You can try Fedora 15 Beta (try the KDE Live image if you
> don't want to install F15 yet). Fedora 15 Beta will be officially released
> today. (The final Fedora 15 release is currently scheduled for May 24.)
> 
> For OpenGL support, you can try mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, but I don't
> think the version in Fedora 14 will work with KWin. Fedora 15 ships OpenGL
> support for Nouveau by default; to my knowledge, whether KWin desktop
> effects work with it hasn't been tested yet. (Again, you should be able to
> test it with the Fedora 15 Beta KDE Live image.)

I see. Thanks for the info, Kevin. I'll try the F15 live image when I get 
chance on this machine.  

Best,
AC


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