Hi all, I am running Feisty Kubuntu on a Toshiba A135-S2386 notebook. I am trying to setup Beryl on it. facing some problems... My graphics card is a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M on a T2080 ( 1.73GHz) Dual core. Is the machine good enough?
Following the documentation, I installed ATI's fglrx driver. Accordingly, I think I should use Xgl and not AIGLX. For this I added the line: Option "AIGLX" "false" in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf. Without this, launching beryl would simply stop saying that conpositing is disabled.
I installed ATI's driver (restricted modules). glxinfo gives "Direct rendering : Yes"
fglrxinfo output is: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS Series OpenGL version string: 2.0.6334 (8.34.8)
My xorg.conf is uploaded at : http://pastebin.com/944969
lsmod |grep gl gives: fglrx 540004 11 agpgart 35400 2 fglrx,ati_agp
X -version output:
X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux ZION 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 04 April 2007
Also following documentation, I restarted X using Xgl using a script recommended on many websites. This script is uploaded at:http://pastebin.com/944990 and http://pastebin.com/944993
Should I try using AIGLX+mesa instead ?
Regards, Mohan S N
Hi Mohan,
On 7/9/07, Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I am running Feisty Kubuntu on a Toshiba A135-S2386 notebook. I am trying to setup Beryl on it. facing some problems... My graphics card is a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M on a T2080 ( 1.73GHz) Dual core. Is the machine good enough?
AFAIK the closed source drivers have bit of a problem supporting Beryl.
Also Xgl + Compiz Fusion is the way to go. Beryl is no longer actively developed and compiz fusion is the new breed
Try the git deb's from Trevino's repo.
regards, C
On 7/10/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mohan,
Try the git deb's from Trevino's repo.
Will try it out... TIA
On 7/10/07, Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/10/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mohan,
Try the git deb's from Trevino's repo.
Will try it out... TIA
It works!!! I'm sorry, but getting beryl to work under kubuntu was such a pain that I switched to gnome. Beryl worked a little better. It started and some effects worked, like wobble windows, but the window frames vanished.
With compiz fusion, the UI is sane. Not all the effects work... Setup was a breeze. There are some deficiencies... like Alt-Tab doesn't switch between windows if there are only two windows open. If three are open, it works fine. Maybe I am missing out on some option as of now.
I am really enjoying this. Thanks a lot, Chetan and Trevino.
Regards, Mohan S N
On 7/10/07, Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com wrote:
It works!!! I'm sorry, but getting beryl to work under kubuntu was such a pain that I switched to gnome. Beryl worked a little better. It started and some effects worked, like wobble windows, but the window frames vanished.
With compiz fusion, the UI is sane. Not all the effects work... Setup was a breeze. There are some deficiencies... like Alt-Tab doesn't switch between windows if there are only two windows open. If three are open, it works fine. Maybe I am missing out on some option as of now.
You don't have to miss out anything actually. In Trevino's repo there's something called compiz config settings manager, which is similar to the beryl manager you might be used to. Command line pe - ccsm and python based gui should be up.
you should get to play with some even cooler effects like window transparency etc ... its cooler than beryl.
And if you prefer a different decorator then compiz --replace -c <your-fav-decorator >
You could use aquamarine (right ?) for your kubuntu.
play on, C
Mohan Nayaka wrote:
Hi all, I am running Feisty Kubuntu on a Toshiba A135-S2386 notebook. I am trying to setup Beryl on it. facing some problems...
Beryl has merged with compiz, and it is perhaps a good idea to switch to compiz.
Compiz-fusion (which is the name of this merger) is a good alternative. I've been using this for a week now, and I feel that the performance is a bit better than beryl.
Regards, Mohan S N
On Tuesday 10 Jul 2007 18:26:01 Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:
Mohan Nayaka wrote:
Hi all, I am running Feisty Kubuntu on a Toshiba A135-S2386 notebook. I am trying to setup Beryl on it. facing some problems...
Beryl has merged with compiz, and it is perhaps a good idea to switch to compiz.
Compiz-fusion (which is the name of this merger) is a good alternative. I've been using this for a week now, and I feel that the performance is a bit better than beryl.
I'm waiting for kwin in KDE 4.
In case you haven't been keeping an eye on dot:
http://dot.kde.org/1180541665/
On 7/10/07, Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com wrote:
I'm waiting for kwin in KDE 4.
In case you haven't been keeping an eye on dot:
Somehow this looks very very similar to existing plugins from compiz fusion. AFAIK its in compiz fusion already. Am not familiar with KDE4 internals however i would think they basically plug into the compiz fusion infrastructure.
its a win win anyway. Am awaiting kde4 myself. I for one simply love qt4 font rendering capabilities. far better than gnome.
regards, C
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