[huskerlug] Re: YouTube - Beryl
- From: Boian Berberov <berberov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:06:40 -0600
I have an ATI Mobility 9700. Sabayon Linux recommends using XGL with
ATI cards and that works with the fglrx driver. However Mandriva 2007
works with the ati driver and AIGLX perfectly on the same machine.
Sabayon uses beryl while Mandriva uses compviz. Maybe that matters, I
do not know.
Boian Berberov
Matthew Jorde wrote:
> 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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