Review Installing Beryl/Xgl with Nvidia cards?

Vincent imnotb at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 16:23:06 UTC 2006


I guess, I'm lucky, according to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/Xgl

> All you have to do is install the *xserver-xgl* package, it will take care
> of all the dependencies.
>
The rest of that guide is about the same as mine. I'll guess I'll put it in
then, but it'd be very nice if someone could test it.

On 12/19/06, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh crap, I forgot, I also installed Xgl. I just don't know how I did it.
>
> I'll try to find that, because if I use your guide 1) I have no experience
> with it myself and 2) I don't know if it would work with the rest of the
> guide.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> On 12/19/06, jmak <jozmak at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/19/06, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey, at [1] I wrote up a guide for installing Beryl on Xubuntu with
> > Nvidia
> > > cards, could someone try this out and report if it all went as well as
> > it
> > > should?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > http://xubuntuguide.org/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage#Installing_Beryl_Xgl_with_Nvidia_cards
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Vincent
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Vincent,
> > It looks good, but the big problem is installing the newest nvidia
> > drivers from the nvidia site. Most users has a problem with that. I
> > also had. Finally, I found a very good site that explains the
> > installation procedure and the necessary modifications of the related
> > files. In fact, in the last week, I wrote a short tutorial for the
> > ubuntu forum because users are very frustrated for not being able to
> > make beryl run on xubuntu. Take a look at the tutorial perhaps you can
> > incorporate some of the ideas there.
> >
> >
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=309649&page=2&highlight=beryl+xfce4
> >
> > Jmak
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>
>
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> Vincent




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