Beryl on Ubuntu

[StarLog]

Heh, finally got Beryl to work on my Ubuntu. Take a look at what some people are doing with it.

[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM[/link]

[Bullet]

what exactly is BERYL???

[fallen1]

Beryl is an OpenGL powered desktop manager that lets you do all sorts of cool visual effects (whoops the snot out of Vista's Aero Glass..and uses a fraction of the resources).

Very cool vid Tony! I need to get around to setting up Beryl on my Ubuntu machine...

oh, and I have Steam installed and working on it now having an issue when I try to launch CS, but I think I can fix it with a command line tweak or two...I'll let you know how it goes when I have another night I feel like bashing my head against my desk

[Sinnocence]

If I could get CS/Steam running performantly under Wine/similar I'd run linux as my primary OS on this PC. I'm not sure if I'd go with Beryl or Compiz though - I quite like the bells and whistles at the bleeding edge with Beryl but there's something to be said for the stability of Compiz; I mean, it's not like it's ugly or anything.

How do you guys find CS under *nix? What's your general system specs?

I've got a flashy SLI setup and I'd hate to lose FPS to poor linux support (as *was* the tradition with nVidia the last time I tried to switch at least).

[StarLog]

Hey Fallen Tom here. lol

Beryl is a wrapper for most any linux OS, Compiz is the same, but easier to install.
Bleeding edge is the word for it. I tried Compiz, and got it working immediately fter trying Beryl, which did not work.
I went back to Beryl, and it all works fine now.

I guess your running wime on the Ubuntu, was it easy install or did it require several changes.?

Yeah lets get this going, I also need to run a few win apps, that no one has ported to linux at work, so maybe wine will work for me.

laterz

[Sinnocence]

There's other options too StarLog. Cegeda is a paid for fork of wine, they typically poach and rewrite the best bits from Wine/similar projects and then add their own stuff. They've got better compatability/etc.

Apart from that you could look at VMWare Player/Converter. Basically install windows on your PC, your games, etc then run converter to produce an image. You can now use VMWare Player under linux to run your windows PC. I can do it here okay but I've got a pretty beefy PC. Unfortunately 3D peformance is a little lacking at the moment really. An upcoming version enables 3d acceleration so it should be pretty damned good for CS once that comes out (videos on youtube of a game or two on a leaked beta). Also, no need to wait for wine to iron out wrinkles with Vista/DX10 emulation either. Of course, this all relies of VMWare getting a 3d accelerated version out the door soon, and they may not!

[edit] removed speculation about banning [/edit]
http://www.csnation.net/viewnews.php/6278/ - it appears they've fixed the Wine getting you a VAC ban problem since 2003/2004.

The worst part of reading that? I've had HL2 since release, and nothing since then has really blown me away in the gaming world... wtf have developers been doing? Roll on Crysis and Alan Wake. Despite having an SLI setup I bet my performance in the new gen titles will suck, plus my cards are DX9. argh. I can feel my wallet burning already

[Bullet]

fallen, if you are using WINE an not cedaga, will you post some steps on installing CSS/STEAM in *nix? PLZ....I have yet to figure it out...hell, when i update my system kernel, i crash my install, LMFAO

[fallen1]

lol...will do. I am using WINE for it and I have Steam and CS:S installed and updated, but I'm running into what looks like a program hang when I try to launch CS:S. I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is and I think I have an idea of how to fix it (pretty sure it's a video setting I can fix with a launch argument). Once I'm sure I have it working I'll post the steps.

oh, and that kernal update? bet it's the same one that crashed mine
I just rebooted into the previous kernal and used Synaptic to remove the new one so I wouldn't have to deal with that problem on the rare occasions I actually reboot the system

[StarLog]

Fallen,

How the heck you get it on there first of all, I go to steampowered.com and click get steam, it takes me to SteamInstall.msi
Which will not run under wine.
How do I get it over to the Ubuntu system

[fallen1]

I'll have to check when I get home, can't remember if it was an .exe or .msi that I downloaded. I saved it to the desktop and opened a console window, then did "Wine Steam(whatever the rest of the file name was)" and let it run.

make sure to configure Wine first and install the Tahoma font under the Wine directory

think I got most of the info from www.linux-gamers.net under the How-To section

[fallen1]

looks like they changed the download file on steampowered...the installer I downloaded from there a couple weeks ago was an .exe file.

I have it saved on a CD if you want me to send it to you.

unfortunately I probably won't be playing with Linux for a while...my brother's comp is crapping out on him (not surprising since it's an old P3 450MHz) so I wiped the drive on my spare parts machine and put XP on it so I can give it to him when I see him this weekend

[fallen1]

found this command for running a .msi under WINE....


msiexec /i msifile.msi

just replace msifile with the name of the installer

[cooper]

Yeah....I have no idea what any of that stuff is[&:]. Oh well!

Just don't talk to me about any of it and we'll all be happy.