Re: [BLUG] Compiz Fusion

Richard Knepper wrote:
> 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

What is Emerald?

I've tried fglrx and the open source driver, both to no avail. The info
I found online (on several different pages) seems to suggest that the
Radeon X600 is a no-go.

>
> 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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