Most Recent Upgrade and Beryl

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Notes on my upgrade to 7.04

Feisty Fawn -beta until April 19 2007

I did this via the command line as follows:

Tell apt what to get

First I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to look like what is linked.

I then issued the usual apt-get commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This actually worked the first time through without any problems (unlike what I have previously experienced). But I did run into a major problem pretty quickly:

Check /etc/fstab

I found that the file /etc/fstab must use the UUID instead of device names. (Others report different experiences, so don't fix this unless it is broken.) Upgrading to Edgy does this for you, but I thought it might be the source of a problem I was having, and I reverted back to the old style. Unfortunately, that old style is not compatible with Feisty, and /etc/fstab has to use the UUID for the main disk drives. eg: 


# /dev/hdc1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=edd22899-8bca-484e-9181-7492e292975e / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

# /dev/hdc2 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=2656de2e-247e-4de8-9131-f6f0c55a211c /home ext3 defaults 0 2

Nvidia drivers

Shortly after I upgraded to the beta-Feisty, they introduced a new set of Nvidia drivers, and I had to switch to (i.e, install) the following packages: 

ii  nvidia-glx-new              1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-15.20 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
ii  nvidia-glx-new-dev          1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-15.20 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'legacy' dri
ii  nvidia-new-kernel-source    1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-15.20 NVIDIA binary 'new' kernel module source


Upgrading Beryl

screenshot_beryl.png
Link to full-size screenshot of Beryl Xubuntu desktop.


I have started using Beryl with Xubuntu (Xfce4 desktop). You can also use it with KDE and Gnome, but I like the simplicity and snappiness of Xfce4. Anyway, to get a current Berly, I used svn and compiled it myself, to make sure I used python2.5 and all the current libraries: 

svn co svn://svn.beryl-project.org/beryl/trunk/ beryl

cd beryl

makeall

I found I had to install several additional packages. The error messages tell you what to do, saving you the onerous task of consulting the Beryl documentation.

Then to get it running, you need: 

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite

and I have a launching script that invokes it: /usr/bin/startxgl.sh

That script was one I had made following these directions for installing Beryl with Xubuntu Edgy.



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