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Ianprime0509	Posted: Nov 23 2008, 08:25 PM
My favorite E3 game so far Group: Members Posts: 488 Member No.: 3316 Joined: 17-February 07 Status: (0d)	Okay, so I got a Fedora 9 live CD, and I wanted to try out the Desktop Effects, but they say "Desktop Effects could not be enabled". I have an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT Graphics Card. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Everything else works fine. Thanks! -------------------- Signature version 3.0

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Posted: Nov 23 2008, 08:34 PM

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probably can't use them from the livecd

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Ianprime0509

Posted: Nov 23 2008, 08:35 PM

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QUOTE (Xgoff @ Nov 23 2008, 09:34 PM)

probably can't use them from the livecd

That's sort of what I though, considering they don't work with Ubuntu either.

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Posted: Nov 24 2008, 04:53 AM

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you'd either need a specialized livecd for nvidia hardware, or a proper installation to install the nvidia drivers on.

to get nvidia graphics cards working to their full potential on fedora, you need to install nvidia's proprietary drivers.
to do this in an installed system, you just need to configure a software source called "RPM Fusion" (go to http://rpmfusion.org/ and click on "Configuration;" make sure you get both "free" and "nonfree" repos) and install the "kmod-nvidia" package (this can be done through the "Add/Remove Software" tool in the "System - Administration" menu, or simply by running the command yum install kmod-nvidia as root).

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