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Old 03-07-2007, 12:12 PM   #1
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Beryl on FC6?


On my FC6 box I ran 'yum install beryl', to which it installed 13 packages. Now I can't find beryl as a desktop option in my session menu. What now?
 
Old 03-07-2007, 01:41 PM   #2
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It's in Applications->System Tools->Beryl Manager.
 
Old 03-07-2007, 03:31 PM   #3
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Found it. Right-clicking on the beryl manager icon > Select Window Manager > Beryl doesn't appear to work. It seems to want to default back to Metacity.
 
Old 03-07-2007, 03:54 PM   #4
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Then AIGLX is not working; you need to properly install the driver for your video card first (ATI or Nvidia).
 
Old 03-07-2007, 08:15 PM   #5
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So, do I need to download new video drivers? The card I have is the ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x. Looking on ATI/AMD's site, they don't have drivers for that card listed under Linux. Under normal Gnome or KDE desktops the card seems to work fine.
 
Old 03-07-2007, 08:30 PM   #6
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As far as I understand, the open source drivers do not support Compiz/Beryl, and if the vendor does not offer a driver that does, then that video card cannot be used for the purpose.
 
Old 03-07-2007, 08:33 PM   #7
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Erg ... I was afraid you were going to say something like that ... Thanks.
 
  


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