Archive for April, 2009

The 3d desktop effects in KDE 4 are cool and all, but to me they just dont yet come close to the power of compiz-fusion. They seem a little bit too….stiff. The cube desktop seems a little bit too two dimensional and stiff. So i installed Compiz-fusion on my KDE 4.2 desktop.

The rumors arent true, compiz-fusion CAN be installed in KDE 4 easily and without many problems. I heard some places that the two would conflict but thats just not true.

I simply added the repository that I wanted (I used SID because I have more SID stuff in my PC than Lenny)

Etch:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/stable/ ./

Lenny
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Sid
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-sid/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Add this to prevent apt-get warning :

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/A42A6CF5.gpg -O- | apt-key add -

run

apt-get update

apt-get install compiz-fusion-kde

If you use apt-pinning simply add the pin version you need(i.e apt-get install -t unstable compiz-fusion-kde)

Then run

apt-get install fusion-icon

logout and log back in

Then go to System Settings > Advanced >AutoStart. Hit add Program and type in fusion-icon in the box.

Then simply run fusion-icon and choose Compiz under Select Window Manager

Enjoy

Yea i know, this is a post title that has been used in about a billion different blogs out there, every time I see a blog with that title I want to shoot the writer (like “hyuk hyuk dah i haven’t written anything in a while so i guess u guys think im dead hyuk hyuk im so funny”).

Anyways I have to use this title right now because at the moment I am scrapped for time and cant think of anything, maybe later I will change the title to something more imaginative(probably not, oh well).

Anyways guys the reason I was down was because of that annoying little libdrm2 update that broke fglrx for a lot of people. I did not know what the reason was for the break at first and so I did a lot of things in my annoyance that harmed my setup more than helped. In the end I decided that I got tired of ATI and their stupid drivers and got an NVIDIA card.

I love it

This card was so easy to configure and install it wasn’t even funny. I dont even think you guys will need me to write a blog about how to install it because its so damn simple. Just google it and click on the first link and it should work fine.

The only thing is that I decided not to go for the debian way of installing the driver, for some reason every time I use the debian way to install the NVIDIA driver and tried to install the Nvidia-glx driver it told me to uninstall all of xserver-xorg.

I was like “ummmmm no”

So i looked it up and they got this little bug with some setups but thats no biggie because you can just use the install script from the NVIDIA website that should work fine. Just make sure that you dont have Nvidia framebuffer in your kernel or Nvidia vesa or it won’t install. If you do just make a simple custom kernel and remove them, just copy the .config file and take out the two things, dont even make them modules, I hear just being able to support them can mess it up  for you( besides you wont need it ever again).

Aaaaand…..thats basically it.Im back