[Klug-general] Something for the weekend

[Karl Lattimer]

I've been playing with SLED10 recently and its really impressive and
I've decided to try and free up some of their non free stuff or at least
the UI. heh ;) I hope they don't mind.

The thing I've taken a look at is the Xgl configuration dialog and how
you can automatically retrieve the right driver and enable Xgl without
needing to do much thinking or clicking. So I'd like a broad spectrum of
assistance with a simple question; on your distribution is there a
distribution accepted way of installing the graphics driver. The process
on fedora is;

install livna.org repository
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-driver-nvidia

Xgl is also available from other repositories, and if I can cover
ubuntu/nexenta (I HOPE SOMEONE USES THIS)/insert favourite distro
here... I'll have a scriptable way of installing Xgl/Aiglx and drivers
for various distributions. 

anyway, some python/glade code is available from

http://www.wine-doors.org/de-0.1b.tar.gz

I've just got to hook up gconf and add in the auto-installer script.

To run it cd into Desktop-Effects/src and do; 

python gnome-preferences-desktop-effects.py

you'll have to kill it with ctrl+c as its purely a glade UI with no
events functioning.

patches welcome, gconf will be done hopefully by the end of today and
that'll be everything but the install scripts.

enjoy
K,