[Tfug] Beryl

[Sean Warburton]

First off, wow! The installation really was 6 questions, and the entire
installation section of the setup process took 6 minutes and 43 seconds!
(thats what it reported the 'uptime' to be while it was shutting down to
reboot). Now, I have no internet. I cant seem to find anything anywhere that
will let me view wireless networks. I even ran a cable to my computer, in
hopes of it automatically detecting and configuring it for me. No luck. Any
suggestions? Also, GL support is bad. I will get some proprietary drivers,
because it froze about 3 or 4 times when I viewed screensavers that used
OpenGL. Wholistically, it has much more potential than Windows. I think I
even saw a built-in application that lets you turn your computer into an FTP
server! That was a major chore in Windows. I think I am fully converted
now...
     Sean


On 8/6/07, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 8:26 pm, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> > [...] but the
> > problem was not Windows, because the problem existed only with running
> > Beryl, any other window manager and there was no problem.
>
> But you *are* aware that the emulated 3D layer that Beryl uses will
> cause a massive slowdown unless some kind of (real) hardware
> acceleration is being used, right?
>
> 2D acceleration (which applies to "any other window manager") isn't
> going to be much of a problem. That was solved years ago with
> blitters and whatnot.
>
> R.
>
>
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