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Fri, 16 Mar 2007

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn thoughts

The hard drive on my laptop was doing some weird things on occasion and I decided to get a new one and an external case to stick the old one in. Figured while I was going to be replacing my hard drive I might as well install Feisty Herd 5 and use that.

Installation had no problems. I was up and running with all the updates in 3 or 4 hours (I have a slow Internet connection and there were a lot of updates). I fiddled with things to get Beryl working mostly because I want an Expose kind of thing, but ... it was really sluggish (I've got a Gateway 450ROG with an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500) so I removed it.

Everything looks good so far. Figured I'd mention it in case anyone else was thinking about Feisty Fawn.

Update 3/19/2007: I traded emails with Patrick and he helped me configure aiglx correclty. I've got Beryl 0.2 working very smoothly--some of the features it has are already making a huge difference in usability. w00t! Also, there's an article on Ars Technica that walks through Beryl features called Bring on the bling with Beryl. That helped, too.

Posted by patrick on Fri Mar 16 20:14:33 2007
My graphics card is a Radeon 7500; not sure how different that is from a mobility, but beryl was sluggish for me as well - until I set it up using aiglx instead of xgl.  Now it flies.  Something to try.


Posted by Marius Gedminas on Fri Mar 16 22:50:48 2007
I have a Radeon Mobility 7500 (Thinkpad T42).  Compiz/Beryl is reasonably fast if I disable the blur plugin.  If I don't disable it, I get something between 4 and 0.5 frames per second.


Posted by Duane on Fri May 18 04:01:33 2007
I also run Feisty on a 450ROG, but I'm having problems with the wireless card...It's a broadcom. Did you have any weird issues?


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