Chris Matchett

I am enjoying the 3D desktop Beryl provides on Fedora Core 6.

There is plenty of info on how to install Beryl on Fedora but I found I had to install the nVidia drivers from the nVidia website to get things working for my GeForce 4 Mx440 graphics card. You need to use the nVidia 1.0-96** drivers for this card, the most recent drivers don’t support it.

Copy of my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Nov  9 17:55:20 PST 2006

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier     “single head configuration”
Screen      0  “Screen0″ 0 0
InputDevice    “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
InputDevice    “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection

Section “Files”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load ”glx”
Load ”extmod”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”

# generated from default
Identifier     “Mouse0″
Driver         “mouse”
Option         “Protocol” “auto”
Option         “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option         “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option         “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier     “Keyboard0″
Driver         “kbd”
Option         “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option         “XkbLayout” “gb”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier     “Monitor0″
ModelName      “Dell E773p”
HorizSync       30.0 – 70.0
VertRefresh     50.0 – 160.0
Option         “dpms”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier     “Videocard0″
Driver         “nvidia”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier     “Screen0″
Device         “Videocard0″
Monitor        “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth    24
Option         “AllowGLXWithComposite” “True”
Option         “RenderAccel” “True”
Option         “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
SubSection     “Display”
Viewport    0 0
Depth       24
Modes      “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option         “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection