(warning: longer than the attention span in atot, short message at bottom)
Link to XGL LiveCD
I've heard about the Kororaa XGL LiveCD, but never bothered to use it because I never quite got the best experience from livecds except for a few. Plus I was going to reformat and get XGL running on Suse as soon as 10.1 came out (so soon
). Well a friend wanted me to burn him a linux livecd after I brung Ubuntu Dapper to school and played around with it. I wanted him to have the most pleasant and impressive experience with linux.
He had a newer nvidia graphics card like me (6800) so I wanted to make sure that his distro wouldn't crash x on him. Apparently Kororaa has accelerated nvidia and ati drivers (along with dri support for intel cards). So I burned Kororaa and decided to give it a spin.
On my computer it was amazing. It booted up with accelerated nVidia drivers and I logged in to a Gnome desktop at first. I first saw that script on the desktop to run the 3D Matrix code (the stop script was hidden in My Documents it turns out). It ran without a hitch. On the desktop was an html file with all the key shortcuts to running the cool 3D effects.
I immediately began spinning the 3D cube, moving applications to my other virtual desktops in a 3D fashion, wobbling my windows, zooming in on text and video, attaching my wobbly windows to the corners and pulling them away, wobbling my windows while playing video, playing with my transparency settings and running multiple video streams with one being transparent, alt-tabbing while running video, and dragging my video off the edge and watching while having the cube being suspended giving it a split. It was sweet!!
I brung it to school and tried it out on an intel graphics card. It ran much slower (especially with the matrix code, that really brought it down), but it still ran fine. My other friends wanted to play around with it too so I'm burning a lot of Kororaa livecds. Everyone here should give it a try!
--In short for those who don't want to read too much, I ran Kororaa and it highly impressed me. If you guys haven't experienced the 3D effects of XGL, please give kororaa a try. It even seems to have mp3 support! (well at least with vlc)
buggish stuff I've noticed (some might not be kororaa's fault directly):
-In Gnome, meida and something else were on top of each other in the Desktop. A quick right-click on the desktop uncheck align icons then check align icons fixed that, but
-I'm not quite sure, but my two wireless cards that work in Suse didn't work in Kororaa (a ti chipset and ralink chipset), but let me retest this because before I didn't login as Kororaa, I just hit enter.
-There was some kind of error with an intel chipset right after the kernel executed (something about 8bpp, can't exactly remember), I think 'kororaa acpi=off' at boot did the trick.
-Default resolution was 1140x(some weird resolution) by default on my nvidia card which caused the desktop to shift to the left. Changing it to a more common resolution like 1280x1024 centered it correctly.
Oh and one last thing! Make sure to login as 'Kororaa" with the password 'xgl' instead of just hitting enter. I couldn't mount/explore my thumb drive by double-clicking on it until I logged in as a regular user.
Link to XGL LiveCD
I've heard about the Kororaa XGL LiveCD, but never bothered to use it because I never quite got the best experience from livecds except for a few. Plus I was going to reformat and get XGL running on Suse as soon as 10.1 came out (so soon
). Well a friend wanted me to burn him a linux livecd after I brung Ubuntu Dapper to school and played around with it. I wanted him to have the most pleasant and impressive experience with linux.He had a newer nvidia graphics card like me (6800) so I wanted to make sure that his distro wouldn't crash x on him. Apparently Kororaa has accelerated nvidia and ati drivers (along with dri support for intel cards). So I burned Kororaa and decided to give it a spin.
On my computer it was amazing. It booted up with accelerated nVidia drivers and I logged in to a Gnome desktop at first. I first saw that script on the desktop to run the 3D Matrix code (the stop script was hidden in My Documents it turns out). It ran without a hitch. On the desktop was an html file with all the key shortcuts to running the cool 3D effects.
I immediately began spinning the 3D cube, moving applications to my other virtual desktops in a 3D fashion, wobbling my windows, zooming in on text and video, attaching my wobbly windows to the corners and pulling them away, wobbling my windows while playing video, playing with my transparency settings and running multiple video streams with one being transparent, alt-tabbing while running video, and dragging my video off the edge and watching while having the cube being suspended giving it a split. It was sweet!!
I brung it to school and tried it out on an intel graphics card. It ran much slower (especially with the matrix code, that really brought it down), but it still ran fine. My other friends wanted to play around with it too so I'm burning a lot of Kororaa livecds. Everyone here should give it a try!
--In short for those who don't want to read too much, I ran Kororaa and it highly impressed me. If you guys haven't experienced the 3D effects of XGL, please give kororaa a try. It even seems to have mp3 support! (well at least with vlc)
buggish stuff I've noticed (some might not be kororaa's fault directly):
-In Gnome, meida and something else were on top of each other in the Desktop. A quick right-click on the desktop uncheck align icons then check align icons fixed that, but
-I'm not quite sure, but my two wireless cards that work in Suse didn't work in Kororaa (a ti chipset and ralink chipset), but let me retest this because before I didn't login as Kororaa, I just hit enter.
-There was some kind of error with an intel chipset right after the kernel executed (something about 8bpp, can't exactly remember), I think 'kororaa acpi=off' at boot did the trick.
-Default resolution was 1140x(some weird resolution) by default on my nvidia card which caused the desktop to shift to the left. Changing it to a more common resolution like 1280x1024 centered it correctly.
Oh and one last thing! Make sure to login as 'Kororaa" with the password 'xgl' instead of just hitting enter. I couldn't mount/explore my thumb drive by double-clicking on it until I logged in as a regular user.
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