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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.

[ tags: ubuntu | category: /debian | Permalink | 3 comments ]
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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