Comments on: Beryl with latest nVidia drivers & AIGLX (no XGL) : Ubuntu (6.10)

By: kurt

kurt — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:45:04 +0000

I have Ubuntu 6.10 on my AMD64 laptop with a ati Xpress200m card. It took some work and many reinstalls but i finally got it working and love it. Also, just as a note if you aren’t getting the “beryl splash” screen don’t worry… when I installed it it was turned off by default for whatever reason.

By: Ubuntu Tutorials

Ubuntu Tutorials — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:44:02 +0000

Ron – the easiest suggestion that I have is to make sure that you backup your xorg.conf file before you do anything and, if things don’t work, simply revert to that original and you’re back to normal.

By: Ron Debins

Ron Debins — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:50:03 +0000

One thing that I’ve learned the hard way is to never try something that I can’t undo.

I’d love to try Beryl, but I’ve yet to find instructions on how to “undo the damage” and get back to a standard install if things don’t work out.

Does anyone have any tips?

By: Arran

Arran — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:03:00 +0000

Ryan if you would like berly to start when you log in you need to add it to your sessions manger list u have to add this to the start up list /usr/bin/berly-manager then it should start when youi log in

By: Ubuntu Tutorials

Ubuntu Tutorials — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:47:52 +0000

No problem. Credit goes where its due, I’m just trying to get the information to the people

By: PriceChild

PriceChild — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:40:12 +0000

Thanks for giving me credit for that howto.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:23:18 +0000

Beryl doesn’t consistently start for me. Sometimes it’ll start the first time, sometimes I have to run beryl-manager, then beryl-xgl.

Sometimes when I start it, I get NO window manager at all.

Weird.

MythFrontend doesn’t play well with it, but that’s because it’s doing xvideo, which doesn’t get rendered.

Of course, when it’s going, it’s some nice eye candy.

RyanE