Archive for June, 2007

Fedora 7 on Dell Latitude D620 and Inspiron 640m

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Fedora 7 has finally arrived. Well, somehow I wasn’t as much excited about it as I was while waiting for FC6, but on the other hand I didn’t wait long to install it on my most used machines. My flatmate was first to install F7 and solve most common after-installation issues on his D620, so I just used his experience. Yes, lazy I am. :) Anyway, let’s get started. (more…)

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Fixing compiz / desktop-effects after nvidia driver upgrade

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Recent nvidia and xorg upgrade from FreshRPMs repository has brought an unpleasant surprise – desktop-effects stopped working at all. Fortunately, FreshRPMs’ mailing list brought a solution quite quickly. In my case executing nvidia-config-display enable command as root solved the problem. Check out a thread on the mailing list for other possible solutions, as well as reasons for that trouble.

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