How to Install Beryl with latest nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Posted by admin on April 3rd, 2007 
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Note:- First you need to remove all existing xgl/aiglx from your system
Preparing Your system
You need to make sure you system is up-to-date using the following
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Adding Source list
you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line for the latest beryl (Both i386&64 bit)
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org feisty main
Save file and exit
Copy the key file using the following command
wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Now you need to update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install Latest nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite
Now you need to restart your X by logging out and in or by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace
Install Beryl in Ubuntu Feisty
sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Now you need to type the following command in terminal or run application box by pressing alt+f2
beryl-manager
April 4th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Beryl+Latest Drivers=WOW (not warcraft)…
If you are longing to put beryl on your machine this is the howto for you. Explained in simple terms for the advanced user and new user alike….
April 7th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hi! Great how-to! but in sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes it would lack to add to beryl-manager, or not?
April 7th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Very nice thank you very much for this guide!
April 8th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Howto install Beryl with Nvidia on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn…
Some nice guide for installing beryl: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-beryl-with-latest-nvidia-drivers-in-ubuntu-feisty-fawn.html
Just one note: instead of executing
sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Try to exec
sudo apt-get install b…
April 18th, 2007 at 4:20 am
Ok so I was setting up ubuntu for the first time, i installed the nvidia drivers right away, then I found a beryl install guide geared toward ATI, i figured I could follow it and skip the driver part…..didn’t work
I tried the above and on the last step before running the manager I get the following.
What went wrong?
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
emerald-themes is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl: Depends: beryl-settings but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-manager but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Thanks,
Steve
April 18th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Hi Steve,
Try to run the following command from the terminal
sudo apt-get -f install
This will install all the required dependencies
April 18th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Nice How to?
I ran into a problem when running sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes, it gives me this message:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl: Depends: beryl-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberylsettings0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberyldecoration0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-plugins but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-settings but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-manager but it is not going to be installed
emerald-themes: Depends: emerald (>= 0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
iamm7md@iamm7md-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libapr0 libsvn0 kdesvn-kio-plugins libsvnqt2 php5-cli libhtml-lint-perl
php5-common weblint-perl
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
iamm7md@iamm7md-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl: Depends: beryl-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberylsettings0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberyldecoration0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-plugins but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-settings but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-manager but it is not going to be installed
emerald-themes: Depends: emerald (>= 0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Any ideas!!!
April 18th, 2007 at 9:19 am
As you can see from above, I ran it twice
but no luck 
April 20th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Works like a CHARM.
Admin: Great Job. I tried many a times in the previous version of Ubuntu to get my beryl work on my laptop but I have to give it to you. The steps you mentioned in here exactly did the thing for me.
Thanks… Enjoying the eye candy finally on my own machine.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Thanks for the guide. Everything worked as you said but for one minor detail… after I start the beryl manager and choose beryl as the window manager… my windows flash for several seconds… then everything returns to normal. Right clicking on the beryl manager and going back to “select window manager” shows I’m back to using the default “metacity” window manager.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
April 21st, 2007 at 1:01 am
Never mind… figured it out. I downloaded nvidia’s driver directly from their website and installed it over the one your instructions had me install. Odd thing is they were the same version, but GLX is working now. Oh, and so is beryl!
Thanks,
John
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Hi - Thanks for the guide.
Unfortunately, I am experiencing the same issue as iamm7md …
I tried ’sudo apt-get -f install’ but it didn’t solve the issue.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks!
Greg
root@gkou-desktop:~# sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
dia-libs dia-gnome dia-common
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@gkou-desktop:~# sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
emerald-themes is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl: Depends: beryl-settings but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
April 26th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
You can also install nvidia-glx-new. It’s a newer version of the nVidia driver (obviously).
April 28th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Ok, installation worked flawlessly, but beryl-manager doesn’t exist…I do have beryl-settings, but what’s next? Do I need to load something or make any other changes?
April 30th, 2007 at 12:46 am
The part where you edit the sources.list file is where I get stuck. Any help?
April 30th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Has anyone got this going with multiple heads on the same card, IE. Nvidia 6800GT + 2 19″ monitors? I still have to use Xgl to achieve this.
Thanks,
Steve
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I followed the instructions, but after doing ‘ctrl+alt+backspace’, the screen goes blank, and the monitor goes into powersave mode (same as when ubuntu is booting up).
How do I get it so I can see what’s going on? Can I type the ’sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes’ from here?
May 5th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Thanks Man! Awesome guide! I’m new to linux as of today and got it to work like a champ. Just a thought though I also had to:
sudo apt-get install beryl-manager
Thanks again
May 5th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi
thanks for the guide. Beryl now works on my PC. I have one query. How do i get Ubuntu (7.04) to start Beryl on startup.
Currently i get the gnome window manager and have to go to Apps- System tools - beryl manager to start it
Thanks again
May 6th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Its alive This is my second time trying to install beryl I lost the fight using my old ati card in my laptop but it works with my nvidia 128 mb pci card(very cheap)only prob is that beryl doesnt load at start up and the last step wouldnt run from the run box had to be executed in the terminal good tutorial
May 9th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
sudo nvidia-xconfig –add-argb-glx-visuals –composite
nvidia-xconfig: unrecognized option: “–add-argb-glx-visuals”
Invalid commandline, please run `nvidia-xconfig –help` for usage information.
Any ideas why this is so?
May 9th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
After i reboot the system, I get back to the logon screen under the terminal. Then i get the message of X server error. How do i fix this?
May 15th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I got the same thing as Jester.. Just after install the driver, everythings seems okay. But once reboot the system, nvidia driver gone again.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:36 am
This worked like a charm. Beryl really is the most amazing thing. Just Wow.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Can anyone help with this —-
root@john-laptop:/home/john# sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl: Depends: beryl-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberylsettings0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libberyldecoration0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-plugins but it is not going to be installed
Depends: beryl-settings but it is not going to be installed
Depends: emerald but it is not going to be installed or
aquamarine but it is not going to be installed or
heliodor but it is not going to be installed or
yawd but it is not installable or
compiz-gnome but it is not installable
Depends: beryl-manager but it is not going to be installed
emerald-themes: Depends: emerald (>= 0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@john-laptop:/home/john# beryl-mananger
bash: beryl-mananger: command not found
root@john-laptop:/home/john#
August 9th, 2007 at 12:51 am
i am trying to install this i dont really know what i am doing when i try and edit the source file code it wont let me type then it acts all weird. what am i doing wrong?
August 10th, 2007 at 2:55 am
I installed everything but as soon as I ran the beryl-manager everything went white. I was able to hold Ctrl + Alt + Mouse rotate the white cube around and I could see the beryl icon on the top and bottom of the cube. After that I restarted my pc and now the X server wont even load. Anyone know what is wrong? Thanks!!!
August 29th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
I have the same problem as Jeff (comment 27.) - everything goes well until i run beryl-manager. My screen goes white. I can use the Ctrl+Alt+Left_mouse to move the cube (and the Ctrl+Alt+arrow_keys) but every face of the cube is white. Now, I’m stuck. Anyone have any suggestions?
August 30th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hey everyone. Just tried out this tutorial. Was doing fine until I ran “sudo apt-get update” after modifying the .list file. Keeps saying “E: Type ‘?’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list”
So, I’m stuck. Can anyone help?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Hi,
I just wanted to say, I’m experienced with windows but NOT with linux, and I had no problem getting this to work with this tutorial. Beryl is pretty freakin cool, and well worth the little bit of terminal commands you have to write.
BTW I think I’m going to turn in to a linux junkie.
Thanks for the tutorial
January 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Hi there,
If you are sure that these library are already installed you can try the following:
./configure LIBBERYLDECORATION_LIBS=/usr/lib/ LIBBERYLDECORATION_CFLAGS=/usr/lib BERYL_CFLAGS=/usr/lib BERYL_LIBS=/usr/lib GLIB_CFLAGS=/usr/lib GLIB_LIBS=/usr/libJanuary 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
How to Install Beryl with latest nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn — Ubuntu Geek…
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April 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
well i’m pretty new to linux a i have a problem in editing the source.list.. how do i do this???
kjaeer
April 6th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Thanks to this article, thanks to member responses, I was able to find a solution to the problems that people suffering them
Thank you very much to all of you
June 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
this is my first time at linux and I find it hard to install linux it self and the programs on it and after I tryed 5 times it finaly worked.
so thanks a lot.
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 am
Hey i bought BSNL 144 Kbps NIC card and am using Ubuntu, will anybody help me to configure NIC card in Ubuntu
Card name:
HUAWI
model no:EC321
Connection mode:Via Usb
These are the information i know , they gave us an installation for windows its not good,
actually i call to bsnl office to configure for Ubuntu But they dont know
Please Help me:Thank you for comment
July 4th, 2008 at 8:20 am
After hitting control + Alt + backspace I get “Failed to start the X server”
I only have command lines now.
I am a beginner can you give me some advice on how to fix this?
Thank you
September 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
doesn’t work for me. get a 404 error on this command. Has the address changed?
Any ideas?
September 20th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Hi guys,
This is an excellent tutorial. but i’m getting some problem on my ubuntu box. i have just installed ubuntu 8.04. and I’m getting following error
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
beryl-settings-bindings: Depends: python (< 2.5) but 2.5.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Ubuntu 8.04 has python 2.5.2 installed by default. Now how do i downgrade my python version. and i have one more doubt. If i do so, it may brake my existing package, may be based upon python 2.5.
Any reliable sulution.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hi, ive been watching a lot of beryl movies but cant find one whos telling me how to download and install it. can anyone of you make an video and post it on youtube PLEASE :P,
sorry about my bad english
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 am
I tried installing beryl and ended up with a very low resolution. How can this be fixed, plz help.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
i did it how is says, but When i type “sudo nvidia-xconfig –add-argb-glx-visuals –composite” and boot the graphical user interface wont work anymore…
what i did wrong? all what ill get is the “full screen” console??
Im runnig on Kubuntu 32bit (latest)