beryl & ati x1600

[Tony]

Paul S wrote:
> Luca Ferrari said the following on 06/11/2007 10:43 AM:
>   
>> On Monday 11 June 2007 Paul S's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>>     
>>> Your beryl error messages suggest you need to start Xgl before starting
>>> beryl.  Remember, ATI X1--- do not support AIGLX, so Xgl must be run.
>>> Check out the wiki.ubuntu.com and search for Xgl to get the howto.
>>>       
>> Thanks, having enabled the xgl server now beryl works. The only two things I 
>> didn't find are:
>> 1) the cube rotation among desktop seems to be disabled, but I read on 
>> Internet that it does not work with feisty, is it true?
>> 2) it seems beryl catches all ALT_GR keys so I'm unable to use the modifier to 
>> print some special symbols (like @ on my italian keyboard). Any idea about?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
>>     
>
>
> I tried the compiz from feisty and the beryl from beryl-project (because 
> the beryl in feisty does not include support for Xgl).  Also, I use 
> kubuntu, not gnome.  For me, the cube would not rotate for compiz, but 
> would rotate for beryl.  I later found out that if I installed 
> gnome-compiz-manager, and used it to configure compiz, that the cube 
> would rotate on compiz also.  Anyway, if you are running beryl from 
> beryl-project.org, you should have the cube rotating.  Also, there is a 
> beryl settings manager that probably will allow you to change the 
> keyboard shortcuts to something other than your ALT_GR keys.  You'll 
> have to page through a lot of configuration stuff to find where your 
> keys are conflicting, but it should be possible.
>
> There's something about the number of viewports (1 or 4) that is not set 
> initially .. I can't remember exactly.
>
> I stopped using it for now because Xgl makes it a bit too slow for my 
> liking.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> P.S. check out opencompositing.org if you want to try out the latest 
> bleeding edge version.
>
>   
The cube works at least with a ATI X1400 and XGL but getting it all up 
and running is problematic at best, mostly because ATI Linux driver 
support is sad to say the least.

You may want to have a look at this guide...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=555247

First off let me say by no means am I an expert in beryl in fact it is 
rather a PITA if you ask me buggy and half finished.

To get the cube working you might try to open your Beryl manager click 
on  >Desktop< along the top on the right side click on  >Cube< make sure 
its option box is checked to enable it and also just below same for 
 >Rotate cube< , now back under cube to the right on the first tab 
 >options< in the drop down box it should be set to >one big cube< 
hopefully that should get it to work unless you have kiba-dock installed 
and running them it wont I haven't figured that out yet?

If you want to set the size of the cube when it spins on the left side 
under >Desktop< again click on >rotate cube< then the >Behaviour<  tab 
the >zoom< slider sets cube size when its spinning with your middle 
mouse button held down.

A lot of the setting you can play around with as there set in real time 
so set something try it and see if you don't like it revert

Tony D