If someone is interested, I managed to get desktop effects working on a
nvidia box. (Athlon 64 3400+, Nforce 4 chipset, Geforce 7600 GS
PCI-Express, running Fedora 7 Test 2 , x86)
I installed latest kernel, kernel-devel & kernel-headers
packages.(currently 2.6.20 2990), then reboot.
Download the latest nvidia drivers and change the runlevel.
As root : /sbin/init 3
Then log in the console and run as root the nvidia driver shellscript.
After a little time of compilation, let nvidia modify the xorg.conf.
Then open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf , check that the driver used is
"nvidia", and not "nv".
In the "Device" Section, add these lines (the first 3 lines are
absolutely needed, the others are for my personnal use)
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "RandRRotation" "True"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Then delete the line "Load "glx" " in the "Module" section. This is the
nvidia wizard which added it, but with this line, desktop effects
couldn't be activated on my system.
Xorg is now ready. But not the system.
The driver install files in a bad path : /usr/X11R6/lib which is no more
used by Xorg.
As root, just copy /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* in /usr/lib/xorg/modules
And copy /usr/X11R6/lib/lib* in /usr/lib
(Yes, this is crap)
Run as root: /sbin/ldconfig
It's done, reboot. If everything's ok, you should see the nvidia logo
when Xorg launchs, and you will be able to activated Desktop Effects.
I installed Beryl too. In order to use it, launch beryl-manager, and in
the notification panel, select the Beryl/Emerald window manager.
the best is to logout and login again in order to change,switch from one
to the other is a little buggy(decorations don't appear totally); in
compiz & beryl sometimes the windows doesn't open at a good position
(window bar is hidden by the applet bar), but globally, it is very
funny!
If someone has advices or other configurations, I'd like to read them.
Following my xorg.conf file :
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
Option "XkbVariant" "latin9"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "RandRRotation" "True"
Option "TwinView" "True"
EndSection
Section "Module"
#Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
