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[Skot]

What is Nvidia?
And I'm going to get Ubuntu in the next few weeks, and I'm wondering if you have to have a Nvidia drive or whatever it is to run Beryl?
If so, how much do they usually go for?

[pito0747]

Nvidia is a company that make video cards for computers. To run beryl you only have to find if your video card is compatible.

[ThunderROM]

Use google next time.

[Skot]

Nvidia is a company that make video cards for computers. To run beryl you only have to find if your video card is compatible.

How do I find that out?

[pito0747]

go to here http://www.beryl-project.org/faq.php maybe it can help you

[Skot]

What are the system requirements for Beryl?
Beryl runs acceptably well on a GeForce 3/i855/Radeon 7500, 256MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz processor. It also works best with Xorg 7.1 and requires a recent version of Mesa.

Lmao, I went to your link, and found that. I'm not even sure what most of that is!
Help?

[pito0747]

what they said is that with those video cards and 256 of memory in your computer plus a 1.2 gigahertz chip beryl work great. mine has a radeon 9250 and beryl work good in it. here in this site http://www.phoronix....i...m=730&num=1 he test beryl with diference video cards and tell waht he found. but dont worry install ubuntu and beryl and then check if you need to upgrade your video card.

[Skot]

Hmm, well according to my dxdiag thing, my video card is a Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller.
Do you think it would work with that?

Edited by Skot, 25 June 2007 - 06:34 AM.

[Razor VinT]

I think it'll work but not smoothly.

[Skot]

^Oh, well how much do nvidia drives go for?