Linux -> Mac?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2007-07-05 at 13:55 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:17:06AM -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
> > On 5/5/07, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Actually, I spent some time recently setting up ubuntu feisty on my room
> > mates computer. Firstly, let me say that Ubuntu continues to impress. I've
> > been a fan since breezy, but it keeps getting better. Anyway, the computer
> > dual boots now, and it's specs are good enough to run oblivion well when
> > booted into windows. It's got an ATI X800 card (not my choice, like I said,
> > my room mate built it).
> > 
> > I decided to install beryl. For all the claims of "just do apt-get install
> > beryl" and it's done, that's just not true. But it took an hour and a half
> > to get beryl up and running. AIGLX vs. XGL, open vs. closed source driver,
> > making sure the xorg.conf had compositing disabled vs. enabled, etc. I'm
> > sorry, but for as wonderful as Ubuntu is (and I'm a fan), there are plenty
> > of things that still break *way* too often in linux. Yes, beryl is beta
> > software, and it gets a bit of a pass as a result, but don't try and pretend
> > it's just a matter of apt-getting it. GFTP is a matter of just apt-getting,
> > not beryl.
> 
> Well if you happen to have an nvidia based card and are running the
> nvidia closed drivers, then it really doesn't take much other than
> install the beryl packages.  If you have something else, you get to play
> with aiglx or xgl and all that other lovely mess.
> 
not quite true; if your ATI card is supported by the radeon driver, that
driver works (in my experience at least) FLAWLESSLY with beryl.  And it
doesn't interfere with the various suspend-to-[ram|disk] implementations
either.  

m

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Matt Price
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