Re: [BLUG] Compiz Fusion

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Joe,
Are you talking about support within Ber/XGl/piz for ATI or support in
fglrx for your model card?

I've used Beryl and Emerald with XGL on two different fglrx-supported
cards, without problems, in gentoo and ubuntu.

Rich

Pawsitive Results wrote:
> My understanding is that the project forked into Compiz and Beryl, and
> has now been disenforked (unforked? spooned?) into Compiz Fusion. I know
> this only because I looked it up last night 'cause I had the same
> confusion.
>
> Ana
>
> On 7/30/07, *Joe Auty* <joe@netmusician.org
> <mailto:joe@netmusician.org>> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm kind of locked into a rather application centric approach to
> computing rather than document centric (i.e. the Mac way).
>
> I was just looking at this very cool demo of Compiz Fusion:
>
>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w
>
> There are several interesting features in here which would make for some
> interesting usability discussion, as well as some useless features such
> as the fire paint.
>
> However, one thing I noticed was the OS X Dock. I know there are a few
> dock-like implementations, but it seems like all of them require Beryl
> to work properly.
>
> At work I'm stuck with a Radeon x600 card, which is actually pretty
> modern but unsupported in Beryl. With all of this changing of
> communities that has gone on - XGL (or whatever the acronym is), Beryl,
> Compiz, Compiz Fusion, I'm a little bit confused as to what the current
> status is. My sense is that Compiz Fusion is the project to follow.
>
> At any rate, I'd like to know what page to monitor to see when/if my
> x600 card will be supported. I never know whether the pages I do find
> are up-to-date or relevant.
>
> Any illumination here would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> (If you want to have a usability discussion about this tech demo, I'd
> welcome that too :)
>
>
> --
> Joe Auty
> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
>

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