[ltp] What about XGL/Compiz experiencies on a T42

[M Daniel R Magarzo]

El vie, 15-09-2006 a las 12:46 +0100, honey escribió:

> 
> Another report: T40 here, with an ATI Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000].
> I'm a core Fedora Core 5 user (if that's not a tautology), but
> decided not to mess with it in FC5 - mainly because it's my main OS,
> compiz/aiglx are due for FC6, which isn't too long away, and others
> with my card advised that I'd get glitches at 1400x1050, my native
> resolution, and I didn't want to roll down to lower.

I can understand your particular point of view easily, since mine is
very similar...

> 
> So instead I picked my playtime Ubuntu installation, upgraded it to
> Dapper, and followed the following article, which is a nice way to
> try out compiz without extensively messing up your system-wide X
> settings:
> 
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916&page=2
> 
> (the only system-wide change I had to make was to set the timeout in
> gdm.conf to 50 seconds - you'll see it referenced all over - compiz
> needs time to wake up).
> 

Good idea. Ubuntu Dapper is probably closer of the
"working-out-of-the-box" than Fedora C 5, for this and also for other
innovative things. 
BTW, valuable elink that of above! In fact, its page is linking to other
"ubuntu sites" that show the XGL issue extremely clearly, within a few,
easy, affordable steps, that's my opinion.


> Result was a very functional desktop on relatively meagre, by today's
> standards, configuration.  No glitches at native resolution.  It's a
> shot in the arm for Ubuntu for me, but I'm still using Fedora as my
> core distro - and will try compiz when FC6 is out rather than try and
> elbow it into place in FC5.
> 
> Hope this helps at least give you confidence to try.

Maybe. So, it seems the main problem could be nothing apart from ...to
have time for it. 

> 
> My verdict on compiz: well it's pretty, but I'm not sure it's quite the
> ground-stealing UI change that some people think is going to
> revolutionise Linux takeup.  It's *fun*.
> 
> Honey
> 

There are several video clips uploaded to YouTube, everyone that watchs
them then "wants" that..., at least (and by the moment) people associate
those nice effects to a particular O.S. and word: Linux. This is really
positive. But then, from this point to the decision of changing to it
just because of XGL effects..., actually there is a enormous gap, and
IMHO no much people would switch to Linux simply for that lonely reason
(nor because of _one_ only reason, whatever it be). Just, as you said
before... "It's fun." 

Thanks for your experiences, ideas and suggestions. 

Cheers

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Daniel