Re: Kernel module packages, the dkms approach

Andre Costa wrote :

> I don't know how this voodoo works, but, hell, it works =) I just
> upgraded kernel to 2.6.18-1.2200, did good old 'sudo smart install
> nvidia-x11-drv' and... there it was, it just worked =)
> 
> So, thks a lot for making our life (a lot) easier with regards to nvidia
> driver upgrades =)

Great! For FC6 it also "just works", and since it's the very latest
driver which is compatible with aiglx, you can even easily get compiz
working with all the wobbly shadowed windows eye candy!

One last manual step is still required for compiz to work. Add this
line to your main "Screen" section of xorg.conf :

Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

Restart X, enable desktop effects in the preferences, and there you go!
I've been running compiz on FC6-ish with the binary nvidia drivers
since last week without a single problem so far.

Oh, if anyone knows enough about pyxf86config to get this option
automatically added and removed from the nvidia-config-display python
script, it would be great.

Matthias

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