[Frea]{ (old)]

i just read some stuff about mandriva 2007 and it kinda made me horny. i think ill download the mandriva 2007 powerpack dvd to try it out. My plan is to get rid of windows definitively (seeing the quantity of crap windows vista will bring) (i think i don't care anymore about games on pc anyway... waiting for the nintendo Wii  )...  but id like some of your thoughts ( like it ? dont ? why? ) about it if some of u already tried it.
also i have a amd athlon 64bit 3000+ and not sure if installing the 64 bit version is a good idea?
thx for sharing infos  .

[Woekele]

Theres some applications not yet ready for 64bits.... like flash and some codecs.

I have an nvidia card and the latest nvidia drivers + ubuntu edgy (with xorg 7.1) let me use Beryl (new name for compiz) without having to run XGL/Aiglx seperately (makes installation very easy). This is how Beryl looks: (250MB movie) http://www.saguratus...xgl/xgl-kde.avi

I also noticed that there's really no reason to stay with windows. Theres no application that I use which requires windows.

[mitsubishi]

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{ link=topic=6790.msg86839#msg86839 date=1163701635]My plan is to get rid of windows definitively

i personally keep them on purpose for occusionally running games on it (other apps i can do on a virtual machine).

[Frea]{ (old)]

ok , after a few weeks of testing , im really happy with mandriva 2007, its such a pleasure. evrything (multimedia, print/file sharing, etc) works better than with PClinux or ubuntu ( at least on my comps).

i tried beryl , its really amazing compared to compiz but i have a little probleme i couldnt fix yet, window decorations are not working because the nvidia-settings tool stuck the color depth at 32 and emerald-theme for beryl needds 24 bit colors, and i found no way to change to 24 yet (even with the defaultcolordepth 24 in Xorg.conf).  Tried to to change to 16 and 8 (24 not even listed) but the tool doesnt seem to save the changes either.. .  anyway im already happy with compiz 

and i cant get rid of win xp yet on my newer comp i need dual boot linux/win xp, because it has a soundblaster x-fi sound card and creative has not made any driver for it yet, and didnt want to give the card specs to a.l.s.a. project. there will prolly be some drivers in the second quarter of 2007 . am reallly disapointed such a big company is not supporting linux users correctly 

ill try urt on the 3d desktop when i got some time, im curious to see how it runs.

[Frea]{ (old)]

ok, all fixed , beryl 1.3 works wonder with nvidia drivers and no need for xgl anymore(urt works fine now too !), thx for the help woekele 

[me="Frea]{"]still wants x-fi drivers[/me]
/me stares at creative.com

[L3mMinG (old)]

I'm running gentoo linux again, but now on my intel mac (with ati). Have a debian pc with nvidia and xorg+beryl but it seems on my geforce3 quake3 fps suffer a bit when using composite. As for pc games, warcraft 3, starcraft, doom 3 and quake 3 work perfectly on linux for me which leaves my windows just for virtual pool atm

On my ati xgl quake3 loads ok, but all textures in-game are messed up.

btw, how did you fix the window manager loading ? Cause there are a few ways to do this but the cleanest seems to use recent nvidia drivers which allow the textrure_from_pixmap extension which is what beryl wants. I got my nvidia beryl working by adding some option for nvidia in the xorg.conf.

[|s|smurfy (old)]

iv just installed beryl on a ubuntu edgy install, but i get beryl effects in Quake 3..... this obviously slows quake 3 down to a point where its unplayable and looks a bit funky with it distroing the screen. This is not meant to happen is it?


Anyone know of any solutions?

[6th|MrSentry]

you should have a gui panel to turn off the desktop effects. at least SuSE 10.2 does. it comes standard.
beryl,xgl +urbanterror = 10FPS

beryl is actully running 2 Xwin  servers.

[Woekele]

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beryl is actully running 2 Xwin  servers.

Only if you use XGL to run beryl on, you run 2 x-servers. If you use the nvidia driver + beryl, it's just 1.

And indeed, you get a nice little manager, that allows you to switch between beryl and the default manager.

[L3mMinG (old)]

aaah the irony... I was fixing beryl on an ubuntu edgy at a friend's place and while looking around for some info I came across some forum (no, not this one) where woekele was telling people what to do

I think woekele is Bill Gates spying on all of us