Beryl on openSUSE 10.2 and Nvidia 6200
It took a while for me to get Beryl running on openSUSE 10.2 and my nvidia 6200. I referred to the openSUSE wiki on nvidia and beryl, but no it didn’t work.
The solution? Well on the Nvidia wiki page, I resorted to setting up my driver the “hardway“. Actually its not so difficult really, grab the kernel-source package, and make sure you are running the latest available kernel (in my case the package: kernel-default), and your pretty much all set to go by running:
blockquote>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run -q
And if you haven’t set up your xorg.conf yet:
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
Now your all set to go! Apply the necessary changes required on the Beryl wiki page.
So Beryl is up and running, with one exception, the window title’s didn’t appear! Only a quick google away, and a solution was found.
Simply insert the following into the “Screen” section
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
Option “DisableGLXRootClipping” “True”
So how does Beryl look on my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW? Totally awesome, it really wets your pants :3.
Of course Beryl is pretty pointless, but if people bring up the new graphics effects in Windows Vista, I can just show them my visually pleasing desktop. Best part of all, on my IBM ThinkPad R52 (i915) when doing the cube effect with a video playing, you won’t see it move. On this spare machine, it moves with the flow :3
