Re: Kernel module packages, the dkms approach

The Nvidia driver already provides an open-source tool for modifying 
xorg.conf:
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
should do what you need.

Dario

Matthias Saou ha scritto:
> 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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