[BLUG] Compiz Fusion

[Richard Knepper]

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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_at_netmusician.org
> <mailto:joe_at_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
>     http://www.netmusician.org
>     joe_at_netmusician.org <mailto:joe_at_netmusician.org>
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