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Old 11-24-2006, 11:51 AM   #1
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[FC6]:Video Card and Desktop Effects Problem

Ok I have been for 2 days straight trying to get desktop effects working in my Compaq V2000 Laptop but I am unable to... It keeps failing to enable desktop effects so I know it has to do with X11...
I am not sure what I am doing wrong but in FC5 I was able to install the ati driver just fine... In FC6 I am having all kinds of problems.. it keeps telling me th following error "Driver does not provide the FireGL X11 ExtensionsI Panel components will operate only partially" so I know some thing is wrong here...
I have try everything on the following guides and I get no where:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=121119
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sh...ad.php?t=127305

I am sure this is why I am unable to get Desktop Effects working..

Please help!
Thank You in advance.
 
Old 11-24-2006, 11:57 PM   #2
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I have try to run the X11 Wizard again still the same problem
 
Old 11-25-2006, 12:58 PM   #3
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Here is my xorg.conf

Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection



Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
        Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option  "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24

        EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group      0
        Mode       0666
EndSection
 
Old 11-26-2006, 11:54 PM   #4
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Any body?
Please!?!
 
Old 12-07-2006, 04:53 PM   #5
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^^Bump^^
 
Old 12-16-2006, 02:14 AM   #6
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What's the output of lspci? This will give us an idea of what the graphics chipset is.

By looking at your xorg.conf, it appears that you are running the open source 'radeon' driver. This (depending on the graphics chipset) will have issues with the desktop effects.

Again, depending on the chipset, the ati fglrx drivers may/may not work to solve the issue of desktop effects.

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Old 12-16-2006, 01:34 PM   #7
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This a laptop by the way..

lspci

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)

Thanks for helping!
 
  


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