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dbd (22)   Mar 26, 2007 - 05:21 pm

Wow, Beryl + Dual-head + ATI, now that's bound to be painful. Beryl is still very early beta, it looks damn cool, but can be hard to set up, especially when mixing it with stuff like dual monitors. Also, the ATI drivers are not up to standard yet. They can do all the basic stuff, but with fancy stuff like Beryl (or wine for that matter) it tends to take a little work to get them working. Just out of interest, did you use the proprietary fglrx drivers or the free-software/open-source radeon drives? Your article is misleading, dual-monitors does not require rocket science. Dual-monitors PLUS very experimental early beta desktop effects (which are better than Vista's or Mac OSX's BTW) is not gonna be easy until Beryl and Compiz mature a bit. Expect that in October's release, which is likely to focus on Beryl and Compiz a lot more. As for NTFS partitions, the reason is that everything to do with how NTFS works is kept secret by Microsoft, they make it painfully hard for anyone else to access them. Even reading NTFS drives from outside Windows was a massive feat of reverse engineering. Also, AFAIK, writing to NTFS now 99.9% works, but is disabled by default, since you don't want to run that risk. And what were your problems with dual boot? I've never seen Ubuntu have any problems at all with dual booting with Windows. By the way, just rated you a 1. Not because you slated Ubuntu (although that may have biased me a little), but because the article is of no use to anyone. All it says is that you tried linux and had troubles. You don't even highlight the fact that you were messing around with experimental software (there is a reason beryl is not gonna be installed in fiesty by default), rather than just normal Linux. » Login to reply to this  indigo196 (249)   Mar 26, 2007 - 09:19 pm | Edited on Mar 26, 2007 - 09:21 pm It wasn't meant to be an article about Linux. It was meant to be an article about my experience with Linux. I have since tried openSuSE and reverted back to Ubuntu -- its cleaner. I did take some things I learned from the openSuSE how-to articles and apply them to Ubuntu. To be honest I am running Ubuntu on my work machine now (I manage AD so that is saying something) and I have loaded ntfs-3g to access my NTFS partitions, VMWare Server to run a VM Windows Machine, and RDP to my servers to manage them. What a difference a week makes when you are willing to push forward. I appologize that you thought this was an article acout Linux; if it had been I would have been much more detailed and taken a bit more time to research it. I did manage to get Beryl and Dual monitors running on my Nvidia machine -- but not the ATI machine. Nvidia is miles ahead with their driver. I didn't find Beryl to be all that and a bag of chips so I went back to simple Gnome and Metacity -- stablity is more important to me right now. » Login to reply to this

OldFriend (178)    Mar 25, 2007 - 10:05 pm

hahah it wasn't me, but i hafta be honest, i've been tempted to rate everyone a 1 just to see what it feels like to be a dick, and cuz it doesn't matter this rd. » Login to reply to this

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indigo196 (249)    Mar 24, 2007 - 05:00 pm | Edited on Mar 25, 2007 - 02:12 pm

The problem was with Beryl and dual-head not just dual-head. Update -- I am going to give up on Beryl... its still in beta and appears to need a bit more experienced Linux user to tweak. I am going to run Gnome or Elightenment for now. » Login to reply to this

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