Edgy Eft

Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl on an Nvidia 8800 GTS

Submitted by Nick on Fri, 03/23/2007 - 12:28am

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....

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ZyXEL ZyAIR G-102 works in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft!

Submitted by Nick on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 7:43pm

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.

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XyXEL ZyAIR G-102v2 operating in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

Submitted by Nick on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 7:42pm

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

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Attempt #2 on installing Ubuntu Edgy on a 8800 GTS

Submitted by Nick on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 1:59am

Let's see if this works...

Step 1

Install the x86_64 version of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy using the Alternate CD.

Done!

Step 2

The first boot after install will fail! Set the driver to use the "vesa" driver (per this thread in the Ubuntu forums):

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Ubuntu Edgy running AIGLX/Beryl

Submitted by Nick on Sun, 02/11/2007 - 5:58pm

Some of the notebook stats:

  • 2-year old Sager NP4780 ULTRA Laptop
  • 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) TFT Active Matrix
  • ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO w/128MB DDR
  • 2.8GHz Hyper-Threading Intel Pentium® 4 Processor w/512k L2 Cache - 800MHz System Bus Speed
  • 160 GB Hard Drive
  • 1GB (2 SODIMMs) PC3200 DDR400 Memory

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Reinstall Successful!

Submitted by Nick on Sun, 02/11/2007 - 5:49pm

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.

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Notebook Linux Upgrade

Submitted by Nick on Sat, 02/10/2007 - 9:30pm

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...

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