Hi all posted about these problems I've been having in other forums but no help yet thought I'd try here as well so here goes.

I installed Beryl via synaptic and found that it didnt work at all i was kinda hoping it was something wrong with beryl (wishful thinking) this was my read out for beryl:
So now I've downloaded Compiz in the hope that something made for linux will actualy work on my laptop. I now have a tar.gz file which I cant do anything with.

Ive unpacked it but get this far and thats all folks.

I've read the install note but that makes no sense as it says:

Which I assume means you use this autogen.sh command which doesn't exist! Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong please all I want is a 3d cube on my laptop and some eye candy.

As with all my many problems your help is appreciated thanks

Hey,
sounds like you don't have automake installed. It's different to make. Download it from here http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Soft.../automake.html or from whatever package manager your distro uses.

What distro are you using and what version of beryl do you have. What video card do you have, and what drivers are you using.

My laptop is a:

"Fijitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2055
Intel Celeron 1.73 Ghz
488 RAM"

The windows driver for the graphics is:

"VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP"

The driver im using in linux is "vesa" as this is the only driver that worked on this laptop, the generic option for most distros I tried was Openchrome but that just showed a blank screen for me.

Oh and my distro is "Linux Mint" a derivative of K/ubuntu but more for the newbies like me.

I downloaded automake-1.10 then had to download and install autoconfig-2.61 then i installed automake-1.10 and all seems to have gone well. So i tried compiz again but got this error message when following the INSTALL.txt instructions

bash: autogen.sh: command not found

so im still at a loss as what I havent done or installed

I uninstalled beryl but its the one that you can get from synaptic so Im not sure if its the most up-to-date version

You shouldn't have to be trying to build anything to get the "desktop-effects" via Beryl or Compiz working. If your hardware supports it and there are packages built for your OS it should install and work without all the pain.

You might want to try some Live CD's that have Beryl/Compiz included to see if it will run. I run Fedora Core 6 on 3 boxes so I can't say how 'Ubuntu handles their packages but if it is anything like Fedora you shouldn't have to be building something to get it to work.

You being new to Linux and trying to install software and having extreme difficulty is what is known as "dependency hell" when the package you are trying to build is always missing "something".

Stick with pre-built packages and use google to see if others with your hardware have similar probs.

hello ,

why don't you try installing it using you system software manager ..or alternativly search an icon called 3D in your control center ..!

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Ive search the whole control centre no mention of anything to do with 3D and the compiz that is in synaptic is an older version but will try it.

So far id have to say im having "linux hell" as everything i try to do with linux isnt easy from trying to get the thing installed, to rtorrent not working,to beryl installed from synaptic not working now compiz. Its one thing after another and kinda makes you wonder why your doing it to yourself!

It dont work just crashes the desktop when i try an replace my usual windows manager with compiz will try the live cd option but wont hold my breath. Any idea which distro would be best to try?

You will only have a "3d Desktop" option in your control centre if you're using Mandriva, which I guess you're not. Have you got direct draw enabled, because Compiz won't work without it. Check with glxinfo | grep direct. If you don't get a YES and you're using AIGLX, then that is your problem.

I assume you ment type "glxinfo | grep direct" into the terminal which i did and this is the reply:

I have no idea what that means, probably summit bad!

Sounds like you don't have a dri enabled driver installed, hence Beryl, Compiz, any 3d item isn't going to work. What is the entire out put of

glxinfo

What is your graphics card/chip?? do lspci, and list what it gives you here.

What distribution are you using?? You can't ask for help without providing extra information.

Hi lebabg,

I'm using Linux Mint as mentioned above and this is the info you requested hope this helps! This is the "glxinfo":

Thats all of it same as above and this is the output of"lspci":

Just so i know for the future what does the "glxinfo" do??

Thanks again for the help.

glxinfo should give you information on what opengl/display drivers X is using. By the sounds of it, you're going to have problems, because the reply given seems to be a problem.
What is the EXACT make and model of your graphics card??
It's a VIA Unichrome Pro, what is the model number? If we have these we might be able to google about a bit.

Have you tried increasing the frame buffer memory in bios to the max that you can? Here is the VIA website http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...0&SubCatID=101
Sounds like Mint is not supported tho,

I know the driver name is "vesa" the reason I know this is because it took me about a week to install linux on this laptop because most distros use a driver called "OpenChrome" as default in the setup. This driver didn't work for me just a blank screen (very off putting) and only ubuntu and its derivatives found that "vesa" works.

It doesn't surprise me that its this thats causing the problems! Ill just log into windows and use sandra to see if I can findout the model number.

I had a problem w/ beryl a while ago. When I loaded Beryl I would get a blank screen which in turn caused me to kill X. My problem was that I was trying to run beryl w/ AIGLX but I needed XGL. So I installed XGL via yum (running FC6.x86_64 btw) I also had to remove all the i386 packages that were related to OpenGL. After so I installed the x86_64 arch of OpenGL and had no problems. It's running to this day. If that anit the answer try using the use copy option, your video card may not be able to handle beryl and all it's awsomeness.