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terryxela
April 26th, 2007, 01:57 PM
I need to replace my ATI x800 pro for one more friendly to beryl. Is anybody using the nvidea 8800 series?
Thxs.

-=terry(Denver)=-

Note: I'm new to this forum. I'm also new to opencom. I installed beryl in my laptop (ThinkPad x40) a week ago and I love it (suse 10.2). I have suse also running in amd fx-55 but that ATI card did not work very well in the previous version of suse (10.1) and I will replace it so I can install beryl in that system.
terryxela
April 27th, 2007, 02:35 AM
:?: What happens? This afternoon there were two replies now there are none
gummybearx
April 27th, 2007, 04:09 AM
everything went down for a bit today... maybe the posts didn't get committed.

the 8800 should be great. i use the 6800xt and it is wonderful
terryxela
April 27th, 2007, 12:53 PM
Thxs. I understand. The two previous post indicated a good experience with the 8800 series so this weekend I will get one. Thanks again for your help.

-=terry(Denver)=-
dkasak
May 4th, 2007, 06:09 AM
What's up with your X800? I've got an X700 Mobility, and beryl works very nicely with the r300 driver.
gummybearx
May 4th, 2007, 06:30 AM
if u want to be able to use DRI and beryl at the same time, ati sucks, as im sure everyone knows. ati is such a pain in my ass, too bad i am stuck with a sweet laptop with ati video card.
CloudBolt
May 6th, 2007, 08:00 PM
if u want to be able to use DRI and beryl at the same time, ati sucks, as im sure everyone knows. ati is such a pain in my ass, too bad i am stuck with a sweet laptop with ati video card.

You can use the opensource r300-driver, which IS slower than fglrx, but does work with AIGLX. http://www.swisstech.net/xorg-ati-3d-beryl/
imported_Rob2687
May 6th, 2007, 08:20 PM
Apparently ATI is rewriting the OpenGL driver from the ground up.
gummybearx
May 7th, 2007, 12:48 AM
ill believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert
Giblet
May 8th, 2007, 04:53 PM
[quote:1b56e]
I need to replace my ATI x800 pro for one more friendly to beryl. Is anybody using the nvidea 8800 series?
Thxs.
[/quote:1b56e]

Yes. Xfx 8800GTX

At 1100 fps, it's much faster than needed -- I'm still running Beryl -- but it plays well with Halo II on the Vista partition so I'm fully justified in having spent so much on a stupid gfx card, right?
Jupiter
May 8th, 2007, 07:19 PM
Yes. Xfx 8800GTX

At 1100 fps, it's much faster than needed -- I'm still running Beryl -- but it plays well with Halo II on the Vista partition so I'm fully justified in having spent so much on a stupid gfx card, right?


uhm...
1100 FPS,,, is that in beryl ?
terryxela
May 12th, 2007, 12:20 PM
Guys, thxs for your help. I thrash the ATI x800 pro and I got a nvidia GTS 8800 320MB. Unbelievable!. I use beryl with nvidia only. Very fast response, no crashes. All work as designed :-)
Now I have the 2 machines I use the most with beryl: this one with the nvidia adapter and the laptop (TP x40) with the intel chip.
No way to get back to the old 2d desktop.

I'll be back with questions but I am having a blast with beryl.

Have a good weekend

-=terry(Denver)=-
Jupiter
May 20th, 2007, 05:58 PM
Guys, thxs for your help. I thrash the ATI x800 pro and I got a nvidia GTS 8800 320MB. Unbelievable!. I use beryl with nvidia only. Very fast response, no crashes. All work as designed :-)
Now I have the 2 machines I use the most with beryl: this one with the nvidia adapter and the laptop (TP x40) with the intel chip.
No way to get back to the old 2d desktop.

I'll be back with questions but I am having a blast with beryl.

Have a good weekend

-=terry(Denver)=-


Great to hear your having a blast with your new hotrod
video card...LOL
If you get any new problems please create a new thread.
I will mark this one solved for you.