Cant enable desktop effects on Fedora 8

hareeshkumaru · 01-03-2008, 09:54 AM

i really never knew about the fedora stance on the proprietary drivers... thanks for bringing it to my notice.. desktop effects works fine now..

hareeshkumaru · 01-13-2008, 05:16 AM

i had to forat my system... wen i installed fedora 8 i did the changes to xorg.conf file b4 that i installed nvidia drivers from livna... i get the following error
[hareesh@localhost ~]$ desktop-effects
compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

wats the problem.. can anyone help??

hlingler · 02-03-2008, 08:37 AM

Hello:

Did you ever try running the /usr/bin/nvidia-settings program? It's a setup app that comes with the driver and allows to tweak various settings.
Look for it in menus under system/Tools, or start it from CLI.

Good Luck,
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hareeshkumaru · 05-29-2008, 12:48 PM

hi.. i had to re-install my fedora 8... i hav nvidia GeForce 6200 graphic card.. i installed the drivers bt usin

Quote:

yum install kmod-nvidia

after that i did the changed that was mentioned previously in the thread to the xorg.conf file but still i get this error message wen i try to enable desktop effects

Quote:

[hareesh@localhost ~]$ 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

pls help me enable desktop effects
thanks

oskar · 05-29-2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hareeshkumaru

i had to forat my system... wen i installed fedora 8 i did the changes to xorg.conf file b4 that i installed nvidia drivers from livna... i get the following error
[hareesh@localhost ~]$ desktop-effects
compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

wats the problem.. can anyone help??

A warning is not an error and can safely be ignored in 99% of all cases.

oskar · 05-29-2008, 04:26 PM

double post

hareeshkumaru · 05-30-2008, 04:32 AM

can u please be more clear in ur suggestion... i actually cant get wat u say!! i hav displayed what erroe message i get clearly in the post.. it says fatal error and not warning

oskar · 05-31-2008, 07:07 AM

I didn't realize both those posts were by you.
I was replying to the one I was quoting.

I did a google search for your error. Seems like some people have been able to fix this by installing the nvidia driver from the nvidia site.

hareeshkumaru · 05-31-2008, 07:29 AM

i was advised on this very same forum not to install drivers provided by nvidia site but to go for 'sanely packaged ' driers provided by livna... so u advice me to uninstall it n try the one given by nvidia??

oskar · 05-31-2008, 01:57 PM

That was good advice, but if they don't work... it's not like it could do much worse, right?
Don't forget to remove the driver you installed through linva. Open the package manager, search for nvidia and remove whatever they name the packages over at linva. - The thing you installed was probably a meta package, so just removing that one might not do it.

hlingler · 06-01-2008, 09:19 AM

See: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showt...+default+depth

Did you run livna-config-display to update xorg.conf with the correct "File" PATHS?

If not, it may be that your software is looking in the wrong folders, and loading the wrong libGL.so*

Your xorg.conf file should look much like this:

Code:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

You can also verify this by running: ldd /usr/bin/glxinfo

You should get:

Code:

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00110000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1 (0x0602e000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x0662c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x005da000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x007c6000)
        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1 (0x05458000)
        libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0x005d6000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00735000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x008c4000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00760000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00a4c000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00a07000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x005b7000)
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x007ba000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x0079c000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00797000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x007be000)

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