[DLC] Ubuntu Feisty and Beryl

[Matthew P Kemp]

Just tried nvidia restricted drivers on ubuntu 7.04 and experienced
freezing (complete system locks).  What are the tweaks necessary?

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On 7/18/07, Arturo Chan Yu <achanyu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently running feisty on my p4 2.4ghz PC and is working fine. There
> were a couple of things I needed to alter on my xorg.conf file in order to
> be stable with my nvidia drivers as well as some changes I did on
> beryl-manager. After these changes it had work like a charm. If you need
> assistance on these things just let me know.
>
> -Arturo
>
>
>
> On 7/18/07, Samir Faci <sfaci at cs.uic.edu> wrote:
> > :->
> >
> > Now, just iupgrade to compiz-fusion their very very alpha code which
> > keeps breaking every other release 'till they get all the bugs worked
> > out.
> >
> > they finally added fusion-icon (replacement for beryl-manager).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Samir
> >
> > On 7/18/07, Gianfranco Berardi <pigeon_gb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > --- Gianfranco Berardi < pigeon_gb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > At an Install Fest, I installed Edgy on my Precision M90. Then we got
> > > > Beryl installed. After a little effort, we found that xorg.conf had
> > > > set
> > > > my default bit depth to 16, and Beryl needed 24 in order to work
> > > > properly.
> > > >
> > > > Fast forward to last week. I upgraded to Feisty. I used the update
> > > > manager. Simply click, it downloads updates, installs them, then asks
> > > > you to restart.
> > >
> > > Ok, so somehow I didn't notice that my changes didn't take effect. I
> > > just now realized it was still using 16 instead of 24. I guess I didn't
> > > use sudo when editing xorg.conf and for some reason didn't think that
> > > maybe I might need to change it again. I'm not sure. In any case, now
> > > that I did make the change, Beryl is running fine, wobbly-windows and
> > > all.
> > >
> > > Now I can turn it off and only use it for showing off. B-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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