Review Installing Beryl/Xgl with Nvidia cards?

[Adam Miller]

at the end of this tutorial it tells xfce4 specific how-to in order to make
it default when you login from gdm

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/AiGLX

-Adam

On 12/19/06, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 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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> > > http://jozmak.googlepages.com/
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Vincent
>
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