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Warren has also said that the beryl component will be integrated into

final SimplyMEPIS 6.5.     Eager to try,   I downloaded the beryl 0.20 rc1

and also the emerald and aquamarine decorators from the repositories.

Everything worked seamlessly with the xorg radeon driver integrated

into SimplyMEPIS 32 beta 6.   I didn't even need to install the latest

official binary fglrx driver from ATI.

The SimplyMEPIS 6.5 beta 6 desktop was a rotating cube after that.

By the way, out of curiosity, i  did install the latest official binary fglrx driver

from ATI, via the mepis X window assistant.  The result :   my x window server

crashed despite having pre-configured it to fallback to the default kde window manager.

Before i sign-off, i also want to mention here that i did also try the opt-in boot

option provided by the SimplyMEPIS 32 beta 6  CD,  on one of my P4 pc with

Nvidia Geforce4 Mx4000 graphic card.  It crashed !   So, i just rebooted with

the normal boot option and installed the beta 6 into my P4 machine.   After

installing SimplyMEPIS 32 beta 6 on that pentium 4 machine, i fetched the

nvidia-glx-legacy driver from the mepis repository.   As soon as i  rebooted the

P4,  i was greeted by the nvidia logo during the last part of the bootsplash.

Then,  the 3d effect worked !  But with a legacy driver.   Too bad, the xorg

display driver wasn't compatible.  Below are the 2 screenshots of the 3D eye

candy features, after a successful installation of the official binary legacy

driver from Nvidia.