Every other day I read about some new cool feature in Beryl. I tend to drool more at each demo video i watch. But, probably as a punishment for some wrong doing I must’ve done in another life, my laptop has an ATI card. Why do i curse my fate ? Because I have to use the AMD ATI closed source driver, with still no AIGLX support, forcing me to use XGL, which doesn’t seem to be getting the kinda love AIGLX receives from the Beryl folks. And to make this worse, the last update from the great Beryl project, broke XGL compatibility, and segfaults at load time. It’s not that I blame Beryl, I would also put my efforts into AIGLX, which good, clean drivers support, but I wanna run some composition magic on my laptop, leading me back to AMD ATI on XGL…

And the pain of living with Beryl, ATI and XGL, is that Beryl is currently broken on XGL, so it’s an apt-get update frenzy to see when Beryl 0.2.0 RC2 is released. And on the other hand, it’s a constant refresh policy on my feed reader, Liferea, to see when AMD ATI finally release the long awaited and overdue driver with AIGLX support

In few words: ATI, alright already, enough is enough, gimme my AIGLX support! Or please oh please, Beryl, fix my Beryl-XGL. Which ever comes first (although I would prefer the first).