Well,
I managed to get all the cubes, fancy previews and wobbly windows
working MOST of the time.
Could Mark and/or Richard tell me what Beryl version they have installed
please?
I have beryl-core 0.2.1.dfsg+git20070318-0ubuntu2
Is that the same as your version please?
I had to use the Beryl red diamond thinggy to tell Ubuntu to use the
Beryl window manager, and then it worked
What I have not been able to achieve is getting the 3D cube to work from
a desktop that has full screen aps running. If the Desktop is empty, or
aps are minimised, or not full screen, I get get it to work. It seems
that the edges of the screen do not respond to the mouse! Any ideas anyone?
Anyway in case anyone asks I am not quite sure how I did it, but I will
try to recall and write it al down!
Mark Rogers wrote:
Edward Kerr wrote:
Umm not as easy as it seems!
It never is :-)
I'm going to try a new install of 7.04 over the weekend on one of my
work desktops, if I'm allowed into work over the weekend. That's a
fairly standard box with an Nvidia card so should be a reasonable test.
The restricted drivers section tells me that I do have NVIDIA
installed and working. However, the web suggests:
What exactly does it say?
I have to say I find the restricted drivers tool very confusing and I'm
never quite sure what it means, because:
I note from Synaptic I have "NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver"
installed.
That suggests you have the FOSS driver installed, not the Nvidia binary.
If you look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which driver is it loading? I suspect
is has the nv driver (FOSS), not nvidia (proprietary binary)
You can install the right driver through synaptic, but I suspect you've
got the wrong one because it's not really clear which is which. have you
tried:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite
.. yet?
Alternatively, find the nvidia-glx package through synaptic and see if
its installed. I'm sure(ish!) I didn't need to manually configure the
driver, so I think you just have the wrong one installed (like I said
it's not obvious which is which, they're both labelled as nvidia
drivers). Don't uninstall the FOSS driver though, its useful if you have
problems to be able to switch back to it (usually manually editing
xorg.conf as root and changing nvidia to nv is enough, which is very
handy if something breaks; it's happened to me once).
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