I just installled Fedora 8 .
But I cannot start desktop-effects.
Is that due to my display card(Ati x1950 pro)? I hav read many threads telling that it's not yet working right on Fedora 8.
Had anyone succeeded in installing driver for it? Please tell me.
Is it only the problem in Fedora 8? Is it work in fedora 7?

Hi, have you installed the official driver from ati.com/your package manager,?? If not, do it, and try to activate the effects. Also it would be nice if you were a bit more specific about your problem (eg : window manager crashes/nothing happens...)

Serafean

But the problem is I can not find any x1950 series driver at the website!!
(even i installed the newest driver from amd.com, it dont work at all?!)
Is there any Unoffical drivers or any successful case with x1950 Pro??

Hi guys,
Recently i installed Fedora Core 8 on my Desktop but it takes 30 min to boot up and after the boot it says that cannot start GNOME session and Linux has found some bugs and it need to be fixed.
Can anyone help me...

Hi Guys
Happy and a very successful new year, I download fedora-8 burn it to a dvd but my computer won't from the DVD although i have set thee cmos to boot from cd,

Does anybody have an idea on how to do it?

thanks in advance

Hi, sorry for the delay, vacation and all... x1900 is OK (btw it's a unified driver, which means that it should work for all ATI cards; those which are supported, of course). Now you can get drivers from ati.com which have aiglx support (desktop effects should work out of the box (the version is 7.xx).

If you have several DVD drives, have you selected the right one? I'd suggest checking the DVD (image and burned) for errors, in the worst case you'll have to download it again.

A bit more info about your system would help : on what does it hang for all that time? From which vendor is your graphic card? Are the correct drivers installed?

I hav tried the drivers(7.xx) from ati.com and the one named kmod-aglrx. but still cant do with my desktop-effects.
when I tried it .. it show as

[root@localhost lib]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1950 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7170 Release

[root@localhost lib]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
....
..[root@localhost lib]# desktop-effects
compiz (core) - Fatal: No valid GL extensions string found.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Hi, maybe looking through some options of the xorg.conf posted here will help. Other than that, I'm stumped (I have an nvidia)

hi friends this problem has been bothering me from such a long time !!!
desktop effects were not working for fedora core 7 or 8!!!
this is thwe erroe i get !!:-

desktop-effects
compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

I have a ATI radeon xpress graphics card with a memory of 256 mb.
CAn anyone help ???