Friday, May 19th, 2006
OpenSUSE 10.1 = XGL Nirvana
I just setup XGL on OpenSUSE 10.1 using this guide. I’ll point out 1 error though. Where it says to add to the gnome-session-properties startup tab “compiz -replace” you actually need to add “compiz –replace gconf” (add second dash and gconf at the end).
Something either new to XGL that I never found on Gentoo or new to OpenSUSE is the “Desktop->Control Center->Desktop Effects Setting” plugin for XGL. This new configuration utility let’s you configure XGL from a nice GUI. You can configure just about anything – heck you can modify XGL to support a 10 sided “cube” (yes doesn’t make sense.. should be called a decagon, 10 sided polygon or something).
Anyway, if you’re running OpenSUSE, check it out. Also… I noticed Novell did some targeted ad placement… how’d they do that?
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August 9th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Michael Dolan Dot Com: Linux, Law, Open Source » YES! Open Source Graphics Drivers!!! From Intel though… said:
[...] So while I may have had the easy street getting 3D XGL running on my laptop with nVidia drivers that worked with my system and distro versions, others got the shaft b/c they had to fight through getting his Intel’s proprietary video drivers to work with XGL. In the future, the positions may be reversed – if Intel gets its way. The Internet is littered with Linux “3D video card problems”. [...]