On Tuesday 04 July 2006 09:35, Mark Rogers wrote: > I'm always surprised just how little it needs. I would go for a cheap > Nvidia card (you shouldn't need to spend more than £30). As long as the > recent Nvidia drivers will run with it (which they should) you'll have > no problems. It does mean using the proprietary drivers (the OSS "nv" > driver won't work).
That's the clue = proprietary drivers. Xgl works fine on Gnome now and I have two words to describe it - the second one is "Wicked!" My son nearly jumped off his chair when he clicked the bar for Firefox and the screen suddenly whizzed round doing that amazing cube thing. Brilliant. That said, it does run a little slower, particularly on log in. I've an ATi Radeon 9250 and it doesn't work on KDE. KDE starts and then dumps me back to the log in screen. I've got gdm as the default manager and put the Compiz.sh and kdewm.sh files in the right places but it doesn't want to know. > > PS: Hello Steve! You should come to a PLUG meeting, I can show you XGL > working on SuSE with a cheap Nvidia card and a old Athlon 2400. > I've got it running on a cheap ATi card and an "old" Athlon 2600! I will try to make a meeting as soon as I get some time to do it. Many thx for your help on this one Mark. Suse 10.1 is superb and is on the disk of Linux Format mag this month. It installed without a hitch and is very easy to configure using Yast. Regards to all, Steve _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
