Re: Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

On 06/05/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks. So, I need to replace:
> 1) Vesa/Radeon in xorg.cong to fglrx. This is simply done with VI.

Maybe, maybe not. I doubt that it's as easy as flipping a switch. First,
you need to install ATI's non-free kernel driver. It's not a part of Fedora
because it is not free software. And it won't magically appear out of
nowhere. You have to install it, and it likely needs to be compiled for the
kernel version you're running. Anytime you update the kernel in the future,
you will need to recompile it again.

Because of this and other reasons (VMWare, for one), I think that I'll
simply stop updating the kernel. Seriously.

I do not know if there's a prepackaged ati driver that you can install from
some third-party yum repository. I can't find it in Livna, the usual place
for these kinds of things. I have not looked at ATI's non-free driver, but
it's fairly likely that its installation instructions is non-trivial.
Welcome to the world of non-free, proprietary software.

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html

Actually, I had installed it a few months ago, with a much older
kernel of course. Is there any way to install an older kernel that
what I have? I've only saved the last 5 kernels.

> 2) Xorg with XGL. This is done by installing XGL via yum.

No, it's done by installing Xorg, which includes XGL.

So I probably have it, then. The why isn't there much be that name:
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ locate xgl
/usr/bin/beryl-xgl
/usr/share/apps/kdesktop/programs/xglobe.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/beryl-xgl.1.gz
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$

Dotan Cohen

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