On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:18 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
I'd like to try out compiz, but every time I start it, I lose
window
decorations and basic window manager functionality. A thread over in
fedora-devel suggested enabling dri, but I think it's already enabled on
my system. From xorg.conf,
..
I'm using an Nvidia FX5200 AGP video adapter with the nv driver.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
EndSection
Ideas?
Thanks,
Jay
You are using the open source nv driver which lacks any type of OpenGL support required to
run AiGLX/Compiz.
More-ever, while the nVidia closed source binary driver (downloadable from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) which has full 3D support and has Windows like
performance, still doesn't support AiGLX/Compiz (The notorious
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support is missing)
Only the future 9x.xx release (Scheduled to be released in Sep/Oct 06) is supposed to
include AiGLX/Compiz support. (Which should coincide with FC6's release).
In short, you'll have to wait before giving compiz a try.
Gilboa