[CentOS] Centos5, Compiz, and Nvidia

Mon May 21 02:56:38 UTC 2007
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 5/20/07, fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> > one of the things I wanted to see was the fancy desktop eye-candy of
> > compiz and/or beryl.
> >
> > This box has a nvidia 6600 series card, and I've isntalled the Nvidia
> > drivers (download from nvidia and run their installer).

You'll have better luck using the dkms drivers from rpmforge when you
go to update your kernel.


> > Found "enable desktop effects", click it, and it says "could not enable
> > desktop effects". Not very informative.

Right. There's some stuff you have to add to your xorg.conf to make it go.

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Compiz

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