[huskerlug] Re: YouTube - Beryl
- From: Matthew Jorde <majorde@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:49:25 -0600
Have you tried using XGL rather than the built-in Xorg compositing? I
had a similar problem where the ati card on my laptop couldn't run beryl
with fglrx while using the aiglx composite, but when I turned aiglx off
and installed xgl, beryl + fglrx worked great.
Matt
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:41 -0600, GreyGeek wrote:
> At work I run a Dell Optiplex GX260 with a Dell M992 monitor
> I installed SimplyMEPIS-32 6.5 beta5. It detected and configured
> everything automatically, including accelerated video.
> I used Synaptic to install Beryl.
> It worked perfectly.
> So, I have BOTH accelerated video and Beryl on my work station.
>
> On my personal Gateway m675prr laptop I must chose between accelerated
> 3D or Beryl.
> Beryl won't work with my ATI 9700 chip if I use the fglrx driver.
> I must use the radeon driver, which doesn't support accelerated video.
> I'm going with the accelerated video.
> ===
> GreyGeek
>
> Hexadecimal wrote:
> > True, true.
> > On a related note, is anyone running the bleeding-edge version of Ubuntu
> > (Feisty Fawn)? I updated from Edgy to Feisty for the Beryl integration, and
> > it runs great on my laptop's crappy GPU (Intel GMA950) - much better than I
> > had expected. I really like the expose-like functionality, and taskbar
> > window previews. Maybe I'll try to capture some video soon, or at least get
> > some screenshots.
> >
> > -Seth
> >
> > On 2/15/07, Matthew Jorde <majorde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> The fact that Beryl includes eyecandy does not automatically make it
> >> frivolous. I find some features of Beryl helpful in my productivity and
> >> several features of Metisse seem like they could be implemented as Beryl
> >> plugins without too much trouble. That being said, Metisse looks pretty
> >> nice as well. It would be great to get both of these up and running.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:33 -0600, Hexadecimal wrote:
> >>
> >>> Cool, but too bad it's unproductive eyecandy. :'(
> >>> Personally, I hope Metisse becomes as accepted as Beryl has become. It
> >>> doesn't have as much eyecandy, but it'd sure help me be more productive.
> >>>
> >>> http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
> >>>
> >>> -Seth
> >>>
> >>> On 2/14/07, GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
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