Nvidia 8800 GTS

Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl on an Nvidia 8800 GTS

Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl on an Nvidia 8800 GTS

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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