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| Is there a Ubuntu install that includes all of the stuff Beryl offeres? I d/led the ubuntu ultimate and it has Beryl, but I can't get anything to run. How do you run Beryl and what hardware is required? At one time I had a Live CD that only allowed nvidia graphics cards. The next version only allowed ATI cards. Any experience with this? |
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| I installed Ultimate Ubuntu myself. First of all, you have to use Automatix to install your video card drivers. Beryl still didn't work after that for me. I assume it has to be installed manually. I gave up on Ubuntu though because I couldn't get my mic to work with Skype =( I tried everything I could find on the web/forums and nothing worked so I give up. |
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| I am pretty sure the upcoming ubuntu release will have something along those lines, but I am pretty sure Sabayon linux has it all preconfigured: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task;=view&id;=16&Itemid;=27 | ||||||
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| I will check out Sabayon. I will also use Automatix on the machine I have it installed on. Thanks Cappy | ||||||
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| Holy Frack! Sabayon is fantastic! I got my mic to work on Ubuntu but then I couldn't get it to work on Skype. I did something someone suggested on the forums and then I couldn't record at all. I undid it and I still couldn't use my mic. I posted on the forums and no one helped me. So .. I downloaded Sabayon. It works PERFECTLY. O M G. 0 setup and I had skype + video + Beryl running ON THE FRACKING LIVE DVD. WITH ALSA. On a side note, it pissed me off a little because after I installed it on my hard drive it sent me to a GRUB CLI. a CLI. I had to look up t he commands for booting .. granted I learned something in that 5 minutes but I didn't wanna learn =P |
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| nice to know cappy! | ||||||
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| Well I am glad I could help! | ||||||
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| I found out that by default (unless you click advanced) the bootloader doesn't overwrite the MBR so it was still using the grub installed with ubuntu, which was overwritten when I installed Sabayon. The Live-DVD Sabayon installer has an option to fix the mbr though =) | ||||||
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| Matt, try installing Ubuntu 6.10. Then, make sure you have your video drivers installed correctly, and add the repositories for Beryl. Then installation should be as easy as: apt-get install beryl-manager emerald-themes |
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| I'm so glad I tried out SabayonLinux. It works like a charm (or at least it would, if I had a >64mb graphics, i guess). This is the distro for my little brother's (7) computer tomorrow! | ||||||
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| Quote Jeremiah Hoyet Matt, try installing Ubuntu 6.10. Then, make sure you have your video drivers installed correctly, and add the repositories for Beryl. Then installation should be as easy as: apt-get install beryl-manager emerald-themes That is assuming you have your graphics card setup to support 3d acceleration. That is generally the part most people break or get stuck on. |
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| Automatix in ubuntu will install ati/nvidia drivers. Anyway, I gave up on Sabayon. I couldn't get "emerge" (package system) to work right. I must have fixed 20 dependency problems and I was no closer to having an updated system =( The problem was, I had to update my system to get my video acceleration to work. I then needed to boot back to windows to get some work done but for SOME reason, grub decided to be a pain and not let me boot to Windows. It wouldn't work with grub's command line either. I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu. Sabayon is extremely nice, but I can't solve my own problems. It goes something like I Upgraded this and I get this error --> now I get this error --> now I get this error --> now I get this error =( apt-get has broken on me before but I was always able to fix it relatively easy to what I went through with the gentoo package management =( |
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well i get a grub error, with ubuntu 6.10 and XP installed and i just go to boot option and go through the c rive and it works. But how does one get rid of this grub problem? |
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| What exactly is the problem? | ||||||
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| dunno, didn't write down what it said, will report back when i boot back up again | ||||||
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