Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Sun May 6 15:57:16 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:13 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:

> The only option you have, today, to use Beryl or Compiz today with an 
> ATI X1NNN series video card is to install the ATI fglrx drivers and the 
> Novell XGL X windows server.  I have done this on a couple laptops with 
> good success, but it is a pain, and less stable than the commercial 
> nvidia driver with AIGLX, or so it was for me.
> 
> Us ATI X1NNN owners watch every month to see if ATI will finally support 
> the Composite extension.

Good explanation, as I think you got it all covered.  Also, we also
watch (I have X1300 card) for when FC7 comes out to support their xorg,
as during testing it does not.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY




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