[BLUG] Compiz Fusion

[Joe Auty]

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_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
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