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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
Belkin 54G PCI (F5D7000) and Linux (openSUSE 10.2)
My friend had a spare wireless card (Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card) PCI card lying around, and I decided to give it a shot and set it up, for experimental purposes. Yes, I'll keep wearing my white hat, at least for now.
In the past I've played around with Wireless, in terms of breaking WEP keys, and watching and listening to kismet beep. Very childish stuff.
Initially the card didn't work in openSUSE 10.2. As the card relied on the rt2500 module, I tried modprobe -i rt2500 to no success.
After looking at the openSUSE Network Adapters (Wireless) site, I discovered I needed to install from source. So I went to the projects site, and grabbed the lastest source (as of now v 1.1.0-b4).
Note: You need to grab the latest kernel source. Do this from the package manager. What you want is the package kernel-source. As of now (8th March 2007), openSUSE is running the 2.6.18.2 kernel.
New user instructions (each one line). Make sure to run as root:
tar -zxvf rt2500-1.1.0-b4.tar.gz
cd rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/
make
make install
modprobe -i rt2500
Now the card should be running perfectly fine.
If the module is loaded (execute: lsmod | grep rt2500 , if there is output, it has been loaded) and your still having problems, I suggest going to Yast > Network Devices > Network Card, and now you should see "Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card" under the available list of network cards.
Sadly the rt2500 driver won't work in Master Mode, meaning I can't create my own access point. I'll keep trying to hack this, and maybe I'll get something out of it. Monitor Mode, does work though, but that's not as fun.
Samsung SyncMaster 940BW running externaly on my IBM ThinkPad R52 (i915) running Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)
So I've had my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW for a while now. Initially trying to get it work on my Ubuntu setup, but no game.
I finally took the time today to get it working as I desperately need the extra space to monitor some stuff. So nice having the additional 1,296,000 pixels. So with my original laptop resolution of 1024x768 (786,432), I get 2,082,432 pixels! Of course it doesn't really work like that...
Anyways, the catch. What did I do?
Well my first try was merging the old dual monitor setup with the created xorg.conf by openSUSE 10.2 in hopes of getting some sort of Frankenstein working.
Which didnt...
As many of you can guess, my next approach was Google, and lucky for me, a good thread appeared, with a very good post highlighting how to get it working. Now I won't reiterate the details here, so you better go there and check it out yourself.
The key to getting it working was the 915resolution tool. Basically I need to modify my video BIOS to support the 1440x900 resolution. This change is only temporary, and doesn't carry through through restarts. /usr/share/doc/915resolution/README.Debian covers how to handle it.
The resulting xorg.conf was slightly different (modelines) than my openSUSE 10.2 one. Of course, one is running on an i915 and another an nvidia 6200.
Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 (i915):
Modeline "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 931
openSUSE 10.2 (nvidia 6200):
Modeline "1440x900" 104.58 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 931
Anyways, its time for me to enjoy my nice LCD :3.
Now suspend to RAM works, but hibernate doesn't ... it brings up my laptop LCD, but the external LCD is greyed out. I have to go run the 915resolution tool again, and restart X. Now onto a solution!
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