antifaithstl
May 29th, 2007, 10:34 PM
First, the nitty:
HP 6205us Vista laptop (minus Windows ME II...er...Vista of course), with a Intel 945gm video card. 512 DDR2 RAM, Dual 1.6Ghz Intel P4.
Now the gritty:
I installed Beryl a few days ago using the guide found on the Beryl Wiki here, (http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_XGL) & it runs pretty good on this low-end Vista basic laptop. The flames Rawk.
The ONLY drawback was that Firefox scrolled a page like Jerry's kids walk.
The guide had me create a separate log-in session to use Beryl (xgl), which of course I used when I ran Beryl. But the Firefox scrolling was still bad.
I went about 3 days searching for a fix w/ no luck.
Then I tried starting the Beryl manager in the normal Gnome log-in session. Not only did Beryl load w/ all the features working as good as they did logging in using the special "XGL" session, but the FireFox stutter was GONE!
Why is this? Is this a fix? Why create a separate XGL log-in session if I can just start it up using plain old Gnome? Is my laptop gonna blow the F up if I don't log in w/ XGL???
HP 6205us Vista laptop (minus Windows ME II...er...Vista of course), with a Intel 945gm video card. 512 DDR2 RAM, Dual 1.6Ghz Intel P4.
Now the gritty:
I installed Beryl a few days ago using the guide found on the Beryl Wiki here, (http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_XGL) & it runs pretty good on this low-end Vista basic laptop. The flames Rawk.
The ONLY drawback was that Firefox scrolled a page like Jerry's kids walk.
The guide had me create a separate log-in session to use Beryl (xgl), which of course I used when I ran Beryl. But the Firefox scrolling was still bad.
I went about 3 days searching for a fix w/ no luck.
Then I tried starting the Beryl manager in the normal Gnome log-in session. Not only did Beryl load w/ all the features working as good as they did logging in using the special "XGL" session, but the FireFox stutter was GONE!
Why is this? Is this a fix? Why create a separate XGL log-in session if I can just start it up using plain old Gnome? Is my laptop gonna blow the F up if I don't log in w/ XGL???