Re: [MLUG] good video card choice to run Beryl?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/10/07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I went ahead and spent the whole weekend getting beryl to work on
> FreeBSD.  So it really is a lot of fun.  I am just now trying it on a
> Pentium 4 with an nvidia 5200 card, and it works just fine.  So the
> jerkiness I reported earlier is probably the slow processor, not the
> video card.

I suppose it could also be a shared memory issue, if the other 5200
was on board. This is good to know, because I think we are leaning
towards a mobo with an onboard GPU to keep this thing reasonably
quiet.

Another heuristic I was using to see what would likely work was to go
to youtube and search for videos of geeks showing off their l33t beryl
set-ups.There are literally hundreds of these up there...

> And by the way, this is with one of those super wide flat
> screens at full resolution, so the video card is definitely being worked
> at full blast.

This is good to know, because our target monitor is a 32" LCD HDTV. My
wife is one of those people who gets nauseated when she watches text
scroll by too quickly, so this should be an awesome way for my son to
completely annoy his mom.

> I also tried it on my laptop with a Go5200, but whenever I initiate
> beryl the screen goes mostly black, although beryl is obviously working
> at some level.  But I have always had to work hard to get this video
> card to play well.

There appears to be a whole mess of Nvidia drivers out there and
support for some specific chip sets is apparently patchy. You're also
doing this under FreeBSD, so there might be some issues with
interfacing the (Linux-only, I think) drivers with your system. And I
am guessing that is relatively less fun than playing around with one's
beryl desktop...

jking

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