A Cajun-Asian View

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I had installed Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft 64-bit version onto my gaming system to see if I can get the Nvidia 8800 GTS card working with it. Since I went that far, I took the tiny extra step and setup Beryl to run on it, and this is the result! It is quite smooth, even with the blurring effects (which do have some buggy artifacts that occur at times. I'm sure that will be worked out over time). Too bad flash doesn't work (Adobe didn't release a 64-bit Flash Player version for Linux), but truthfully, I don't miss it....

Earlier, I had mentioned that I was getting the ZyXEL ZyAIR G-102v2 wireless Cardbus adapter from Newegg.com to see if it will work properly in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. I have to now report that it does indeed work right out of the box in Ubuntu, complete with WPA2 wireless security. To make wireless support much easier in Ubuntu, I had installed the Network Manager package from the repositories.

Check it out:

The ZyXEL ZyAIR G-102v2 in operation in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft.

Let's see if this works...

Some of the notebook stats:

• 2-year old Sager NP4780 ULTRA Laptop

Well, I managed to upgrade to Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, though the path to this upgrade was a bit rocky. I've tried to get the ATI proprietary ("fglrx") drivers working with Beryl, but apparently, the latest release of Beryl has something that is incompatible with the ATI driver. After about 4 attempts at making this Edgy-fglrx-XGL-beryl combination work, I decided to give the open-source "radeon" driver a try with the AIGLX extension to X.org.

Currently in the process of upgrading my Sager notebook. I had Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on there, and I'm upgrading it to Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, following these instructions. Unfortunately, I've customized my install of Dapper with a few tweaks...