Installing and running AIGLX on Fedora

by strikeforce — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:46 AM

— filed under: Video Solutions

This how to will take you through the steps to install Aiglx using the Nvidia drivers version 1.0.9626.

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Applicable to Fedora Versions

Fedora Core 6

Requirements

Explanation of requirements.

You will need to have installed the Livna Repository.
You will also need an Nvidia card capable of using the driver version 1.0.9626 or later.

Doing the Work

You will need to install the nvidia drivers from the Livna Repository.

su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia'

Once that is installed you will also need to install gconf-editor as follows

su -c 'yum install gconf-editor'

You will then need to edit metacity to enable the compositing manager

su -c 'gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true'

You will then need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so it shows the changes in the Device and Extensions sections.

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option     "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Once that has occurred the following command in the console.

desktop-effects

You should then click ok and Compiz should be working

Troubleshooting

How to test

Explanation troubleshooting basics and expectations.

You test it by running the command

desktop-effects

Then switch to different terminals to see the screen rotate like a cube.

Common problems and fixes

If you can't find desktop-effects it means that compiz isn't installed

To install it run the following command in the console.
```
su -c 'yum install compiz'
```

More Information

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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