From Part 1:
“My favorite distro faces an uncertain future, so I decided to
install openSUSE 10.2 over it on my Compac Presario V2000. Also
because… OK, I’ll come clean: the real reason was for the eye
candy. I wanted Beryl, with the cube, the wobbly windows, the
‘magic lantern’ window minimizing effects, rain, snow–you know,
Eye Candy.“This laptop has an ATI Radeon XPress 200M chipset in it, which
requires the installation of ATI’s proprietary drivers in order to
enable accelleration, and (unlike an NVidia chipset) also requires
Xgl in order to get the special effects. There are Xgl packages out
there for Debian Sid, but they’re old and not maintained. Xgl still
runs, but it makes the OS extremely flaky and crash-prone…”
Complete
Story (Part 1)
Complete
Story (Part 2)