Comments on: Desktop Effects on Ubuntu Feisty + ATI + Beryl

By: Mark Xu

Mark Xu — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:09:29 +0000

Thanks a lot for this instruction. Being a Linux newbie, I’m a bit taken back by the relative complexity of setting up a driver. Definitely not a point and click procedure. I managed to install the driver and enabled the effect, but couldn’t install Beryl. The error I got was:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package beryl

Is it just a problem with Ubuntu?

By: rossenstoyanchev.org Blog »

rossenstoyanchev.org Blog » — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:45:11 +0000

[...] get the 3D effects. You can find instructions by searching for “Beryl Xgl fglrx” or use this [...]

By: crouzilles

crouzilles — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:41:48 +0000

It says that xserver-xorg-video-ati is the latest version
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0to remove and 0 not upgraded

What should I do next?

Thank you

By: fungus

fungus — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:31:37 +0000

(EE) Failed to load module â€œfglrxâ€ (module does not exist, 0)

This indicates that the fglrx module is not installed.

Try to re-install the driver.
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

By: crouzilles

crouzilles — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:36:08 +0000

Actually, I meant to say that the Xserver will NOT restart

By: crouzilles

crouzilles — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:35:03 +0000

Hi, I have followed your instructions and I have a big problem, so big that I am writing this on my windows machine.

The X sever will restart when I shutdown and restart the machine. It asks me if I want to look at the log file, I say yes and I get this on screen.
——-start of log——–
(EE) Failed to load module “fglrx” (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found.
—–end of log——–

This is rather strange because desktop effects worked after I did your instructions, but once I restarted the machine I got all that stuff.

The problem is that I am very new to linux and I haven’t got a clue what to do. I guess I could re-install ubuntu, it only takes 30 minutes at most, but I would rather solve the problem which would allow me to learn in the process.

Thank you

By: jake

jake — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:07:26 +0000

hey great guide! i cant seem to get emerald to work, everything else is 100%.

thanks again,
jake

By: khelll

khelll — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:51:55 +0000

i tried this tutorial, and at least i dont get the old extension error.

but now whenever i try to run desktop effects, i get:

Desktop effects can’t be enabled.

does anyone have an idea abt it?

By: dah-rat

dah-rat — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:16:29 +0000

friend had that video card, all the steps worked great no troubles what so ever! thanks so much. But I’m also writing to know if you might have any ideas on a X1900 series card?

By: fungus

fungus — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:52:04 +0000

@Gary
The best place to add those lines would probably be in the 91Xgl script after the DISPLAY=:1 variable setting, but before the end of the if statement.