Review Installing Beryl/Xgl with Nvidia cards?

[Vincent]

Well, this guide will allow you to choose Beryl on the login screen, and
when you choose so it should ask whether you want to use Beryl as default or
just for that session.

On 12/19/06, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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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
> > > >
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