HOWTO: Beryl with latest nvidia drivers and EDGY's built in AIGLX (no XGL)

[LEFT][SIZE=5][COLOR=black]3 Great guides have been ported to the USDF here to cover nvidia, intel & ati.

[SIZE=6][COLOR=Red]Beryl is beta software and unstable. Be prepared for breakage! - Not for beginners.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/LEFT]

[CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR=black]_Have a look here for other howtos on Beryl & Official Compiz_[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[CENTER][COLOR=black][SIZE=1][SIZE=4]Go to #ubuntu-effects on irc.freenode.net for support.[/SIZE][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER]

[LEFT]Nvidia have released their 9xxx series drivers. In laymans terms, this allows compiz/beryl to now run directly on an x server (xorg7.1) without separate aiglx or xgl.[/LEFT]

As far as i understand, you MUST remove all existing xgl/aiglx from your system for this method.

[SIZE=6]STEP 1: Add repos[/SIZE]

Please ensure you have a completely updated pc before continuing:

Install your *ubuntu-desktop metapackage specific to your DE, e.g. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org edgy main

Run one of these commands to add lupine's key.

wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

STEP 2: Install nvidia drivers[/SIZE]
 
_**Option 1:**_

 Lupine's repos is now no-longer availiable. 
 You may use Envy, a Python script that eases installation of the official Nvidia and ATI drivers. Please see[ http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html]("http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html") (>=9631 driver needed...) 

_**Option2:**_
 
If you would prefer to install the nvidia drivers from nvidia's script, you may simply download the NVIDIA drivers from [here]("http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html"), then:
 

sudo nano /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

[SIZE=-1]DISABLED_MODULES="nv"[/SIZE]

Then[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gcc gcc-3.4 xserver-xorg-dev[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-*[/SIZE]
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

[B] Remember that following this method requires a reinstillation of them every time the kernel changes.[/B]

[SIZE=6]STEP 3: Install Beryl[/SIZE]

sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes

[/SIZE][SIZE=6]STEP 4: Lets Go![/SIZE]

Type beryl-manager into alt+f2 or a terminal and all should work.

I hope this has worked :) If it doesn't then preferably try and get help in the IRC channel first: #ubuntu-effects on irc.freenode.net If your problem gets fixed, then post it below and i'll add it to this main post if important :)

Hey thanks for naming me :)

Also no need to add "end section" :)

geearf said: Also no need to add "end section" :)

Changed

This guide is broken for about the next 10 minutes, I've wiped the beryl directory to replace it with a repo that has all of these packages in it.

Amaranth said: This guide is broken for about the next 10 minutes, I've wiped the beryl directory to replace it with a repo that has all of these packages in it.

Looking forward to it. Thanks. =]

Should work again. Repo will be coming soon.

stickying this, I know people will be asking for it.

Worked perfectly! No errors or any such problems.

EDIT: Okay, maybe not.

loke@x04d:~$ beryl-settings

ERROR : no d_ for a_active_plugins aborting... Aborted (core dumped)

hey, anyone have a themes package for emerald themer? The cgwd-themes and cgwd-themes-extras packages could probably be ported, but I can't install them while compiz isn't installed.

I manually extracted the themes from cgwd-themes into ~/.emerald/themes. Use file-roller to do it.

panickedthumb said: hey, anyone have a themes package for emerald themer? The cgwd-themes and cgwd-themes-extras packages could probably be ported, but I can't install them while compiz isn't installed.

Haven't tested it... but how about just important themes from gnome-look.org as you see fit?

Will work while we wait for the proper packages :)

I follow this guide step by step. But when I try to "activate" nvidia drivers in xorg.conf and I restart the X server I've got an error say that nvidia moludes are 8774 then nvidia drivers are 9625. What I have to do? :|

remove all your nvidia drivers and then install the latest

On my machine, i'd already installed the "latest" nvidia drivers from method 1: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper

*Then* i followed the guide.

I think this is your problem.... but then again what do i know :)

PriceChild said: On my machine, i'd already installed the "latest" nvidia drivers from method 1: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper

*Then* i followed the guide.

I think this is your problem.... but then again what do i know :)

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9625/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625-pkg1.run

This will download the Beta driver 9625. Once the download is complete, you'll need to close your xserver and run the installer, to do this, save any open applications, then press ctrl+alt+1. At the virtual terminal, login, then type this:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA*.run

Follow the onscreen instructions. It's practically impossible to make the wrong choice, so you should be alright for that part. When it asks you if you would like it to configure your xorg.conf file, choose yes.

Yeah I know you can do it that way... but then you've got to remember to reinstall it every time you change your kernel.

With the restricted modules way you don't, Maybe the nvidia driver may appear in the official versions soon... (doubt it... but hope) so you can continue using this method.

~LoKe said: Worked perfectly! No errors or any such problems.

EDIT: Okay, maybe not.

I got this too - any fix for this? The rest worked great!

Ok! Now it works fine! Just a question! Where is the menu's animation? And why beryl setting manager doesn't start? :| Thanks to everyone!

You have to restart your computer after installing everything to get the new kernel module. You also have to manually add beryl-manager to your Startup Programs in System->Preferences->Sessions.

Any way to get beryl-settings to work?

Nothing for us poor Intel users yet? :(

I have it working with the i810 driver and 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE on an intel motherboard. beryl-settings doesn't work for me either. I'm having trouble with video playback too.

I'll just wait for the official release announcement at *_Compiz.net_*

Uncle Spellbinder said: I'll just wait for the official release announcement at *_Compiz.net_*

I'd have to say this is the best post in this thread. Beryl has not been released even as an alpha. What is available is there for developers but not really for use. The code is in a major transition since it's forking from compiz. Some things that don't work might just not work until the code is fixed.

Other than a few annoyances (like .cgwdtheme being changed to .emerald) everything still works the same way as compiz-quinn. beryl-settings works fine here. I got that error when I first pullled from SVN but it got fixed quickly.

Ah, the ones from the repos work best. Nice.

I too am getting this: travis@eniac:~$ beryl-settings

ERROR : no d_ for a_active_plugins aborting... Aborted (core dumped) travis@eniac:~$

EDIT: oops, just saw the post above, trying the repos now

panickedthumb said: I too am getting this:

travis@eniac:~$ beryl-settings

ERROR : no d_ for a_active_plugins aborting... Aborted (core dumped) travis@eniac:~$

Use the version from the repos.

Everything works great.

Thanks for all the effort guys! It all seems well-packaged too... I love the Ubuntu community.. :cool:

Worked perfectly without a hitch. Thanks for all the hard work putting the packages together.

yep, tried the repos, everything is great now. Woo! Amaranth gives us the Gnome menu editor, and now the first packages for nvidia+AIGLX+Beryl :)

panickedthumb said: yep, tried the repos, everything is great now. Woo! Amaranth gives us the Gnome menu editor, and now the first packages for nvidia+AIGLX+Beryl :)

I'm more than happy to do the glamourous work. ;)

Nais said: Worked perfectly without a hitch. Thanks for all the hard work putting the packages together.

Heh, actually beryl SVN contains the debian directories used to create the packages, I just changed the version numbers, added --with-system-mesa=yes, and built it. ;)

WOW, what a trip. I can't believe I got it working. Very good How-to

Yeah it works for me too but it seems to be very slow compared to Compiz+XGL. One strange problem that i have, in synpatic my version of xorg is 7.0.22... That's really strange, i thought that xorg 7.1 was implemented in gnome 2.16? Rah Can't wait for the final version of edgy and for a more advanced version of Beryl ;D

Sorry, this is a little bit off topic...

metathran said: One strange problem that i have, in synpatic my version of xorg is 7.0.22... That's really strange, i thought that xorg 7.1 was implemented in gnome 2.16?

the version of the package is 7.0.22, but the actual xserver is still 7.1.1. Run this in a terminal to check:

Xorg -version

Thanks a lot, worked really well :p

Are you going to upload emerald-themes too, because the default theme doesn't look so good...

its working great for me

motion blur + unreal tornament 2004 :D :D

Anybody else got the new nvidia drivers to work on a GeForce4 440 Go (64 MB) card? All I get is a black screen :(

We are not being named anymore :(

Also :

1- please don't say to "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop", users like me using Kubuntu will get lost there, or may do it ... same with Xubuntu users.

2- I believe you can have XGL installed with no problems.

3- We are not using AIGLX here.

Geearf i'll change the Howto for your post too :P Sorry :)

Amaranth said: You have to restart your computer after installing everything to get the new kernel module. You also have to manually add beryl-manager to your Startup Programs in System->Preferences->Sessions.

Whoops.... changing the howto to reflect this.

64bit please? :D

Lupine_85 is currently working on it ;)

UPDATE

repo added for -8 kernel in first post

is anybody here getting troubles trying to logout? I don't get the logout dialog displayed, screen just freezes. Anyway logout dialog has to be there, because if i press Esc or a keyboard shortcut used in that dialog, it just works.. :confused: I remember something similar was happening with earlier versions of xorg compositing... Any idea? [-o<

Yeah i've been having that problem... clicking randomly lets me shutdown.

At the end of the day, this beryl is pre-release, expect a LOT of bugs :) I'll try and contact Amaranth in order to see if there's updated Beryl we can use.

PriceChild said: Geearf i'll change the Howto for your post too :P Sorry :)

Whoops.... changing the howto to reflect this.

You don't have to restart.. Just do:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo rmmod nvidia
modprobe nvidia
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

and it works!

Hi!

I also have the logout problem. Installing the gnome-session mentioned on IRC ubuntu-xgl from http://beerorkid.com/compiz/pool/aiglx-edgy/g/gnome-session/gnome-session_2.16.0-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb did not work. I also had to remove the .emerald folder to get it working.

By chris.

chrisle said: I also had to remove the .emerald folder to get it working.

so removing ".emerald" DID work for you?

Any one knows has to include the yield thing prior to KDM ?

kashms said: Anybody else got the new nvidia drivers to work on a GeForce4 440 Go (64 MB) card? All I get is a black screen :(

There is a patch not included in the beta drivers from the site as well as in the repositories. Unfortunatelly I don't remember where did I get it from. Anyway, I keep a patched driver installation if you wan't it.

I think it has something to do with i2c moduled, so try disableing them if you don't want to patch the drivers

geearf said: Any one knows has to include the yield thing prior to KDM ?

The beryl source code contains the stuff needed to build a package for this hack, I'll build it and add it to the repo unless beryl 0.1 comes out today.

Great thank you.

Beryl works beautifully right out of the repos with no tweaking, except xorg.conf listed in this how to. This is the first time compositing has worked on my old Radeon Mobility 9000! Thank you much!!

It works and I guess using a slimmer software stack is preferable, but I noticed that while pure window performance is similar

• OpenGL apps are awfully slow
• playing videos completely freezes the desktop
• the mouse and keyboard are barely decoupled from the rest and become pretty laggy

Is this in line with what others see? Why is AIGLX preferable otherwise when performance is significantly worse than with XGL+GLX?

Arg, it's not AIGLX! Anyway, these are driver problems.

I works very well, except for video and glx apps (they bring cpu usage to 100%: xorg itself jumps to 40% :( ) Hope they'll fix that soon. Anyway, how do you call this now, it is not xgl or aiglx? In thread's title it said builtin aiglx.

Maybe because beryl is in a very early stage of development ? Or because we use beta driver ?

-PLaying video works (not great but works) -Almost everything is laggy

But this is a pre alpha pre release and performance will probably be as good as before in the future version...

hugmenot said: Is this in line with what others see? Why is AIGLX preferable otherwise when performance is significantly worse than with XGL+GLX?

I did not get same issues you had.. Anyway keep in mind we are using a *beta* driver that add support for aiglx for the first time + a beta comp-manager (beryl) at is first release. Experiencing bugs o slowdowns seems to me quite normal.. Aiglx should be preferable because it IS xorg, while xgl is quite a hack, a brand new rewrite of an accelated xserver, that runs over the normal x server so it isn't supposed to be exactly a *slim* app. You won't even be able to use some 3d accelerated software (i.e. tvtime) or games (i.e. cedega) if you run xgl, unless you don't run them in another x (not xgl) session.

encho said: I works very well, except for video and glx apps (they bring cpu usage to 100%: xorg itself jumps to 40% :( ) Hope they'll fix that soon. Anyway, how do you call this now, it is not xgl or aiglx? In thread's title it said builtin aiglx.

The thread title is incorrect. :) You can use AIGLX with the nvidia driver and use beryl but it's not required, you can use straight X direct rendering with nvidia's implementation of GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap.

I did ask panickedthumb to change the title to "without xgl/aiglx" but he said he wouldn't as aiglx was now built into xorg.

I'm also experiencing poor performance, but its working!

And as soon as beryl gets released properly, everyone will simply be able to change their repositories (same with nvidia card, just updating/re-installing driver)

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. It's running pretty damn good on my system, and I have an older card (GeForce4 MX420). Fullscreen DVD's play fine.

Packages have been updated to latest SVN. New packages are emerald-themes and libxorg-sched-yield-hack0. Make sure you install these two and then restart X, it helps with performance problems.

Anyway, however it&#8217;s called (AIGLX hinges on «texture from pixmap», like running beryl directly on Edgy&#8217;s Xorg hinges on «tfp», right?) it&#8217;s slower and my question is how I can track it down.

1. Beryl is practically Compiz-quinn, renamed. It used to be fast.
2. I would expect instabilities with beta drivers, not necessarily slow-downs because the hardware doesn&#8217;t change.
3. What funky hardware features does XGL use, if even through the thicker layers of libraries it provides better performance?
4. When engineering tfp, the nvidia devs must be aware of the best mechanisms/features of the the cards to implement it with. Will performance improve just by finalizing the driver? Unlikely.

Where&#8217;s the bottleneck?

Amaranth said: Packages have been updated to latest SVN. New packages are emerald-themes and libxorg-sched-yield-hack0. Make sure you install these two and then restart X, it helps with performance problems.

Seems much better to me! Thanks!

Amaranth said: Packages have been updated to latest SVN. New packages are emerald-themes and libxorg-sched-yield-hack0. Make sure you install these two and then restart X, it helps with performance problems.

First post updated to reflect this :)

new version seems lighter (maybe it's the new icon.. :) ) i still got the logout dialog problem, and another one: ctrl+alt+backspace reboots my pc! it's a "normal" reboot, with usplash showing progress of reboot process, and no other problems.. but i'd like jut reboot xorg on that command, not the entire pc! Is there any setting i'm missing??

captive said: i still got the logout dialog problem, and another one: ctrl+alt+backspace reboots my pc!

Since the repos were updated i've seen a HUGE performance increase.

ctrl+alt+backspace restarts my x server.... but the quit button problem still exists.

OMG :KS :KS :KS It works on my old machine (AMD Sempron 2200+, 6600LE).

It is much faster (blurfx is fast as hell! no delay in animation plugin anymore, no delay or stuttering in maximizing windows). Smooth scrolling in firefox is as fast as in plain Xorg or Windows XP :shock: No tearing (in xv, OpenGL, cube, wobbly, animation) antialiasing anistropic filtering etc.

For Antialiasing, disabling tearing, anistropic filtering you have to open nvidia-settings and set the options there, then restart beryl and enjoy :o

regards Dennis

:-({|= the quit button doesn't work for me either :( My screen locks after pressing the button.

Is there another solution?

Edit: Why can't I use 1440x900px widescreenresulution with the newest driver? With the older nvidia driver or the nv driver it is still possible)

Edit2: For choosing nvidia-settings on startup just put "nvidia-settings --load-config-only & beryl-manager" in your startup programs.

regards Dennis

64bit repos are now availiable.... for the -8 kernel ONLY

DeeZiD said: :-({|= the quit button doesn't work for me either :(

My screen locks after pressing the button.

Is there another solution? Not yet, althoug hte screen isn't locked, press Esc and you will get back to normal :)

I'm shutting down from cl for the time being, or end beryl from the beryl manager.

I found a temporarly solution to the logout problem! :D

Logout fix

1. open "gconf-editor"
2. go to "/apps/panel/global/" and check "upstream_session".
3. logout

Activate beauty

1. open a terminal
2. type "sudo gedit /usr/bin/beauty"
3. put the following lines in it

#!/bin/bash
nvidia-settings --load-config-only & beryl-manager

1. save the file and open a terminal and chmod the script

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/beauty

1. open "nvidia-settings" and activate anti-aliasing, anistrop, vsync etc.
2. open "beryl settings manager" from "beryl manager" and uncheck "Detect Refresh Rate" for faster wobbly performance.
3. logout and login again

:cool:

Now if only widescreen resolution would work :confused:

Edit1: Wobbly fix (uncheck "Detect Refresh Rate")

That's a good temporary fix for the logout bug.

However, i've already got an nvidia-settings working....

It doesn't work for me. I get this when running beryl-manager

beryl: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, falling back on visinfo.
beryl: water: GL_ARB_fragment_program is missing
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: No GL visual for depth 32
beryl: pixmap 0x2800093 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa00021 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009a can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1e0001f to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a4 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009a can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1e0001f to texture

[...]


beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800144 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2a000e4 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800093 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa00021 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009a can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1e0001f to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800093 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa00021 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009a can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1e0001f to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800093 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa00021 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009a can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1e0001f to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009c can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00003 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x280009e can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xc00031 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a0 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa002f9 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000a2 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2200143 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x28000fd can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa02dd6 to texture
beryl: pixmap 0x2800093 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0xa00021 to texture
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The application 'emerald' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
Couldn't load settings.  Reverting to defaults.
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0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) (gdb) 
Thread 1 (Thread -1220856112 (LWP 15389)):
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7dc2673 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d6a271 in do_system () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No locals.
#3  0xb717216d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x08053520 in compAddWatchFd ()
#6  0x08053d18 in eventLoop ()
#7  0x0804ef75 in main ()
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) 
(gdb) 
(gdb) #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7dc2673 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d6a271 in do_system () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb717216d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x08053520 in compAddWatchFd ()
#6  0x08053d18 in eventLoop ()
#7  0x0804ef75 in main ()
(gdb) Detaching from program: /usr/bin/beryl, process 15389

[CRASH_HANDLER]: "/tmp/beryl_crash-15389.out" created!

XGL Absent, assuming AIGLX

Did you change your xorg DefaultDepth to 24?

With the new packages, watching a video seems impossible, way to slow :(

The rest of the system looks a little faster though, but still not as fast as pure Kwin.

Did you change your xorg DefaultDepth to 24? I think so... Here is my xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006

# Phoronix NVIDIA X Configuration (xorg.conf)
# http://www.phoronix.com/
# Utilization of NVIDIA TwinView

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

#RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#FontPath "unix/:7100"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "fbdevhw"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Acer AL1715"
    DisplaySize     340    270
    HorizSync       24.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh     49.0 - 75.0
    Option         "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "CoolBits" "1"
    Option         "TwinView" "True"
    Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
    Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
    Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"
    Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24.0 - 80.0"
    Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "49.0 - 75.0"
    #Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

   EndSubSection
 
 
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

geearf said: With the new packages, watching a video seems impossible, way to slow :(

The rest of the system looks a little faster though, but still not as fast as pure Kwin.

I can watch videos perfectly :)

My system is as fast as ever.

And for that colour depth question, change it to 24 in your xorg.conf

Hmm, maybe I have missed something then.

pecanov said: There is a patch not included in the beta drivers from the site as well as in the repositories. Unfortunatelly I don't remember where did I get it from. Anyway, I keep a patched driver installation if you wan't it.

I think it has something to do with i2c moduled, so try disableing them if you don't want to patch the drivers

I tried removing the i2c modules but still no luck. It seems the i2c_core depends on the nvidia module anyway. The new driver seem to even turn off the backlight of the screen but I can login if I type my login and password blindly.

If you have a patched driver I would be interested in trying it out.

So just to clarify here, Amaranth, AIGLX is built into X.org in Edgy, but this is not using it at all?

panickedthumb said: So just to clarify here, Amaranth, AIGLX is built into X.org in Edgy, but this is not using it at all?

I thought this is using it! You couldn't do this on x.org7.0 because it doesn't have aiglx built in?

LOL we're all confused :)... or maybe its just me

How come every time I try to start Beryl I get a X server restart and have to login again, only to find me staring blindly at Kwin?

I'm running kubuntu on a i810 chipset, and my Xorg.0.log tells me that "(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23" (all the way trought 0x32) (see attached file)

PriceChild said: I thought this is using it!

You couldn't do this on x.org7.0 because it doesn't have aiglx built in?

LOL we're all confused :)... or maybe its just me That's what I thought as well, but Amaranth and others say that this is bypassing AIGLX.

@PriceChild: Could you add my information (about logout and vsync, aa etc.) in your howto? :)

Would be nice

Some new information:

1. High resolutions (1280x1024<) on TFTs with DVI connected seem to be impossible :-({|=

Solution: Connect with a VGA-cable

You don't need to add the extensions section with composite because composite is on per default since the 8xxx release of the nvidia driver ;)

regards Dennis

panickedthumb said: That's what I thought as well, but Amaranth and others say that this is bypassing AIGLX.

according to an nvidia employee on nvnews (and im understanding him correct) then the nvidia driver has built in support for all the required extensions and so forth which means that aiglx is not needed and compiz uses the driver functions directly.

that's it.

DeeZiD said: You don't need to add the extensions section with composite because composite is on per default since the 8xxx release of the nvidia driver ;)

Confirmed and changed :)

PriceChild said: I can watch videos perfectly :)

My system is as fast as ever.

And for that colour depth question, change it to 24 in your xorg.conf

Well it is still slow for me :(

Probably a dumb question, but: These packages will not work on Dapper due to gcc differences? I gave it a go on my dapper install, and get a gcc error when running beryl-start. (Edgy install was getting stuck on APIC issues)

Have also tried compiling beryl svn and get nothing more than a white screen when launching beryl.

Thanks for correcting or setting me the right way.

Lamest.

This is the best thing EVER!

..hehe, just had to say something ;)

Keep it up!:-$

DeeZiD said:

1. High resolutions (1280x1024<) on TFTs with DVI connected seem to be impossible :-({|=

Solution: Connect with a VGA-cable regards Dennis

Try this.. in your xorg.conf file under Section "Monitor" try changing the horizontal and vertical refresh upper limits to a massive number, like 100.

And then make sure to add "1280x1024" in the SubSection"Display" of your xorg.conf file.. like this example snippit.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - **151.0**
    VertRefresh     43.0 - **160.0**
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV38 [GeForce FX 5950 Ultra]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV38 [GeForce FX 5950 Ultra]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
 Option         "CoolBits" "1"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      **"1280x1024" "**1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

This is fantastic, by far the the best gl I have succesfully installed. Thank you all involved, yummy:cool:

LamestHolio said: Probably a dumb question, but:

These packages will not work on Dapper due to gcc differences? I gave it a go on my dapper install, and get a gcc error when running beryl-start. (Edgy install was getting stuck on APIC issues)

Have also tried compiling beryl svn and get nothing more than a white screen when launching beryl.

Thanks for correcting or setting me the right way.

Lamest.

You're SOOOOO close i think if you're getting that white screen.

Just check out xorg.conf/aiglx settings.

It only took me a couple of corrections to get the goodness afterwards.

Lamest - If you are an ATI or Intel user, you may need to make a drirc file. Search this forum for "/etc/drirc" for my instructions on what needs doing.

kashms said: Anybody else got the new nvidia drivers to work on a GeForce4 440 Go (64 MB) card? All I get is a black screen :(

Yup, I cannot believe it, previous attempts have been a nightmare of trying every hack to get only partial happiness. This is sweet, clean and smooth with options galore. Could not get the official compiz to look this good.

Well my experience was like this: Installed the whole package, and was good, but, as some of you people notice, very slow. I almost couldnt watch any movies at all it was so slow. But after a full reboot ( I was looking for a strange sound inside the case, which turned out to be a broken stab in the fan of the graphic card :( ), the system was on full-on speed. The same as with the XGL thing. The only problem was that it didnt load the window decorator, wich I fixed clicking the option "reload window decorator" in the diamond below. Im really liking this . Congratulations to all for making this happens. I owe you a beer hehe :mrgreen:

zubrug said: Yup, I cannot believe it, previous attempts have been a nightmare of trying every hack to get only partial happiness.

This is sweet, clean and smooth with options galore. Could not get the official compiz to look this good.

Care to share your xorg.conf? Any special options you have to turn on.

Works perfect for me! Nice guide guys

for me beryl is still way slower than metacity, there are to many hangs.

And for ATI ??? :confused:

I got the following error:

rstruijk@ubuntu-knot:~$ beryl-manager 
rstruijk@ubuntu-knot:~$ XGL Absent, assuming AIGLX
beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

** (beryl-manager:10073): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.

Anybody who knows what to do? I've used the Nvidia installer script.

doelman said: rstruijk@ubuntu-knot:~$ beryl-manager

rstruijk@ubuntu-knot:~$ XGL Absent, assuming AIGLXthis bit is fine. beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missingthis bit is DEFINATELY wrong :P

I would advise that you reinstall your nvidia drivers, and check your xorg.conf settings.

Yep, i'm quite sure it's a stupid fault of me. I did not use the beta drivers but just the standard. ](*,) Sorry..

doelman said: Yep, i'm quite sure it's a stupid fault of me. I did not use the beta drivers but just the standard. ](*,) Sorry..I don't want to sounds evil etc.... but because of your post count, i just want to check that you are running Edgy right? Dapper's xorg isn't up to it.

PriceChild said: I don't want to sounds evil etc.... but because of your post count, i just want to check that you are running Edgy right? Dapper's xorg isn't up to it.

You have to sound evil to me, because i've 2years experience with Linux, and this was a stupid fault. It's working now, with the correct beta driver.

doelman said: You have to sound evil to me, because i've 2years experience with Linux, and this was a stupid fault. It's working now, with the correct beta driver.Still don't want to appear rude :)

Good to hear all is working! :)

nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Tue Aug 1 21:11:12 PDT 2006

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)

#

This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using

values from the debconf database.

#

Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.

(Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)

#

This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*

if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg

package.

#

If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated

again, run the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection

Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "stylus" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "stylus" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "eraser" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "eraser" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "cursor" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "cursor" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection

Section "Monitor" Identifier "G701PF" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection

Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "nvidia" EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "G701PF" DefaultDepth 24 # Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "True"

If you are using an older version of compiz that

does not support rendering into the Composite

Overlay Window, you will need to disable clipping

of GLX rendering to the X Root window with this

option, or you will get a blank screen after

starting compiz:

Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection

kashms said: Care to share your xorg.conf? Any special options you have to turn on.

here is mine.

After the latest update my Beryl broke.

I ended up purging it, restarting, reinstalling, restarting and then attempting to launch beryl from the manager 2 times. It then all worked fine :)

Where's the beryl-start script? beryl-manager doesn't start emerald. If I compile beryl from source I get the beryl-start script.

Melvil said: Where's the beryl-start script? beryl-manager doesn't start emerald.

If I compile beryl from source I get the beryl-start script. Yes i've noticed this from the latest update...

...I'm trying to get in touch with Amaranth right now to find out what's going on... i'm getting a lot more problems than that.... running in a failsafe atm.

64 repo hasn't been upgraded yet :P lupine_85's been nice :P

Hmmm I got it working perfectly but I have a question:

Why Beryl doesn't have Composite Overlay Window support? Or at least is not activated on the guide. I tried to use Beryl without disabling COW on xorg.conf and still works perfect for me but I'm curious about a --cow option in beryl.

The option exists or not?

Donovan said: Hmmm I got it working perfectly but I have a question:

Why Beryl doesn't have Composite Overlay Window support? Or at least is not activated on the guide. I tried to use Beryl without disabling COW on xorg.conf and still works perfect for me but I'm curious about a --cow option in beryl?

The option exists or not? The latest updates from Amaranth mean i've had to comment out

Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

This i think enables COW for me and everything now works again... no black screens.

I've added to the howto.

Hi,

Thx for this HowTo. I got a white screen when i start beryl. In my xorg.conf I added in Screen section. Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

Compiz from cvs works fine.

When i got the whitescreen... i checked that i had edited my xorg.conf file correctly.

Please check you've got the lines required in exactly the right place, and then restart your computer (just x may not do it) and check again.

I checked twice my xorg.conf. After restart computer I always get the whitescreen. I join my xorg.conf.

Thx

maybe try commenting out:

Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"

Then trying again.

hey, can someone post some screenshots (or links to screenshots) with beryl so I know what it looks like? I tried compiz and I didn't like it that much but it screwed up my Ubuntu. So I don't want to try just to find out it isn't my cup of tea... actually... I will probably wait for a more stable release anyway, but I would still like to see some screenshots. please. :cool:

http://www.realistanew.com/random/desktop20060924.png

It, in a word, looks like compiz. Mostly because it _is_ compiz.

Amaranth said: It, in a word, looks like compiz. Mostly because it _is_ compiz.

Nice wallpaper... :cool:

So, the benefits of using this instead of compiz? Will my 3D games perform as expected or be all funky as with compiz running? In other words, is it useful or is it just the kind of eye-candy that will mess up my system more than it is worth?

Garyu said: Nice wallpaper... :cool:

So, the benefits of using this instead of compiz? Will my 3D games perform as expected or be all funky as with compiz running? In other words, is it useful or is it just the kind of eye-candy that will mess up my system more than it is worth?Quinnstorm started packaging compiz, and helped organise more features resulting in a fork: Beryl.

Beryl is skinnable unlike official compiz, and has half a dozen more pluggins.

Personally, i think it makes my work quicker than a standard DE because for example of features such as scale & switcher which together make choosing apps quicker with mouse gestures, and the bottom panel redundant in gnome.

You can still run games fine with compiz running. If using xgl/compiz, then search for "nonXgl" on the forums for a neat script. If you're using this thread, then games will just run fine automatically!

Pricey

Official compiz now support metacity themes ;), from the debs of gandalfn and gnome-compiz-manager

When I try to start beryl-manager, I get a black screen, like reported. I have tried it with and without Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True" commented. Both with the same problem. It goes black, but the mouse cursor still works as if it wasn't all black.

Garyu: If you ever used Compiz without XGL it'll work the same way. If your only experience is with XGL you might be in for a pleasent surprise as far as games.

I've gotten games to work with XGL ;). xgame works well.

i tried the quake4 demo as a benchmark (non-scientific mind you ;)), i experience a dramatic loss in fps when compiz was enabled compared to when disabled.

For those of you who were/are using *Compiz Quinn AIGLX* and Intel embedded graphics cards. [color=#FF6666]beryl[/color] is unbelievably easy to set up.

1) I added these repo from post #1

deb [http://dev.realistanew.com/beryl](http://dev.realistanew.com/beryl) edgy beryl
deb [http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl](http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl) edgy beryl

2) I did ``` sudo apt-get update

3) ```
sudo apt-get install beryl-core beryl-plugins emerald beryl-settings beryl-manager beryl beryl-dev emerald-themes

4 Compiz was removed and Beryl installed (though I still needed to "completely remove" a few compiz packages via Synaptic).

5) In *Sessions > Startup Programs*: I removed *_/usr/bin/compiz-manager_* and added *_/usr/bin/beryl-manager_*

All is working wonderfully. Tweaking settings in Beryl Settings Manager now.

WoooHooooooooo! Sweet!

Thanks *PriceChild* and *Amaranth*. And of course...Thanks *QUINN* for forking Compiz to Beryl.

I get this when trying to run the beryl wm ~$ Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0'; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the window manager. Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults. Couldn't load theme. Reverting to defaults. XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

moved it to a different spot in the screen section and ran it again..and got this :~$ beryl-manager :~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: menu

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: shade

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

and at the end of the crash log (beryl-manager:5058): WARNING : Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running? Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.

Wow...I was wondering what happened last week when I reloaded one of my boxes and Compiz wouldn't install because CGWD wasn't available at the beer or kid repo or its mirrors, and I had to install it from the apt cache on another box...then I found this. Wow. This seems to run much better, though I have to try a couple of times from the Beryl tray icon to get beryl to launch.

Mythtv would always crash my XGL session whenever I would watch liveTV on it...not so with this. Check out Meet The Fockers running on mythfrontend on HD on one side of my cube:

Desktop running MythTV HD

However, it seems that most of the time I try to launch something heavy graphical, I end up with a window border and a black interior to the window...this is something that didn't happen in Quinn's Compiz/XGL. Perhaps it has to do with video card memory? I'm running on a GeForce 6600GT w/128 MB @1600x1200. Perhaps it's time to upgrade my video card. Anyhow, this seems to run, despite a few new problems, smoother and more reliably than it did before (I haven't crashed my X session yet), and I can finally have mythTV running on one side of my cube. It would be nice if it could be redirected to the top face of the cube though...hmmm....

BTW, there is no startup script called "start-beryl" included with the .deb packages anymore...however, there is one called "start-beryl-manager", which launches the tray icon, and requires selecting Beryl as the display manager, then clicking reload display manager twice to get it to work...I'm sure this will be only temporary.

hotspoons said: this is something that didn't happen in Quinn's Compiz/XGL.This is compiz--quinn just under a different name because its forked.

Question:

I keep getting an update notifcation regarding *linux-restricted-modules-common* since adding the repo and installing *beryl*. Coincidence? Safe to install?

OK... I've updated the amd64 repo with the 2006/09/25 CVS packages from Amaranth: To get this working,you seem to need to:=

1) Do the GLXRootClipping thing mentioned above 2) delete ~/.beryl

Yes, seriously. Some setting or another from 09/24 doesn't seem to work well, and you get an unusable desktop. That's why it took me so long to update the repo.

Thanks to amaranth for the solution.

Also note that these packages *still* aren't supported by the devs, so please don't ask them to help you with problems.If you're at all unsure about things like RTFM, DIY and "oh well", the solution is to not use beryl for now.Me and some other users do hang out in #ubuntu-xgl, though, so you could try there if desperate.

EDIT: Some people are still reporting failures with this latest version. If it happens to you, downgrade all the packages to the cvs200060924 revision. Just restore the backup that you made of your ~/.beryl (you did make one, right..?) , then use adept or something to specify the version you want to downgrade t (you can do it with apt-get, but it's a lot of typing)

..Nick

It's just the same linux-restricted-modules that Ubuntu already has but updated to include the new nvidia drivers. It won't hurt to install it but you don't need it if you're not using nvidia.

Amaranth said: It's just the same linux-restricted-modules that Ubuntu already has but updated to include the new nvidia drivers. It won't hurt to install it but you don't need it if you're not using nvidia.

No nvidia here. Any way to stop the update notification short of commenting out the repo?

any fix for my problem? the beta drivers are installed and working..so don't know why its not working. ahh nm I forgot to reload it afterwards..its working now

You can pin the old package. Otherwise, no.

hmm well everything is a tad slower than with xgl..but videos and games work without problems..though I notice I lost my joystick driver so I can't use my logitech gamepad..other than that ..everything is working fine

When I get everything done and do a beryl-manager to start it everything just goes black and all I can see is my curser. I can rotate the cub and see something though. When I press control + Alt + Down I can see the Logo thing on the top/bottom of the cube.

lupine_nickt said: OK... I've updated the amd64 repo with the 2006/09/25 CVS packages from Amaranth: To get this working,you seem to need to:=

1) Do the GLXRootClipping thing mentioned above 2) delete ~/.beryl

Yes, seriously. Some setting or another from 09/24 doesn't seem to work well, and you get an unusable desktop. That's why it took me so long to update the repo.

You must delete all beryl and emerald folders, not just the one in my experience.

Why thank u thank u thank u ! Beryl is screaming fast with my old GeForce 420 compared to XGL ! Now if only ATI comes up with a new driver, and I could install it on my laptop:-k

Hi I've recently dist-upgraded from dapper to edgy and followed this tut. But after I completed step 4 X or GDM or both refuses to start, instead freezes the computer. I've tried with and without the DisableGLXRootClipping line and it's still the same. Here are my xorg log and my xorg.conf:

X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.15.7 i686 
Current Operating System: Linux robin-desktop 2.6.17-9-generic #2 SMP Fri Sep 22 10:41:59 UTC 2006 i686
Build Date: 07 July 2006
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep 26 14:04:31 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "AOC LM721"
(**) |   |-->Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
(**) |-->Input Device "stylus"
(**) |-->Input Device "cursor"
(**) |-->Input Device "eraser"
(**) |-->Input Device "pad"
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to:
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc,
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1,
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi,
    /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi,
    /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Module ABI versions:
    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3
    X.Org Video Driver: 1.0
    X.Org XInput driver : 0.6
    X.Org Server Extension : 0.3
    X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(++) using VT number 7

(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 10de,00e1 card 0000,0000 rev a1 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 10de,00e0 card 1458,0c11 rev a2 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:1: chip 10de,00e4 card 1458,0c11 rev a1 class 0c,05,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 10de,00e7 card 1458,5004 rev a1 class 0c,03,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:1: chip 10de,00e7 card 1458,5004 rev a1 class 0c,03,10 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:2: chip 10de,00e8 card 1458,5004 rev a2 class 0c,03,20 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 10de,00ea card 1458,a002 rev a1 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 10de,00e5 card 1458,5002 rev a2 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 10de,00e2 card 0000,0000 rev a2 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:0e:0: chip 10de,00ed card 0000,0000 rev a2 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:18:0: chip 1022,1100 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:18:1: chip 1022,1101 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:18:2: chip 1022,1102 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:18:3: chip 1022,1103 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,00f1 card 1554,1191 rev a2 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:09:0: chip 11c1,044c card 11c1,044c rev 02 class 07,80,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:0b:0: chip 11ab,4320 card 1458,e000 rev 13 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:0c:0: chip 1283,8212 card 1283,0001 rev 11 class 01,04,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:0e:0: chip 104c,8024 card 1458,1000 rev 00 class 0c,00,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,2), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:11:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000c (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf2ffffff (0x3000000) MX[b]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:14:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x0004 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 2 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x000090ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00009c00 - 0x00009cff (0x100) IX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a0ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x0000a400 - 0x0000a4ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a8ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000acff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xf3000000 - 0xf4ffffff (0x2000000) MX[b]
(II) Bus 2 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x70000000 - 0x700fffff (0x100000) MX[b]
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] rev 162, Mem @ 0xf0000000/24, 0xe0000000/28, 0xf1000000/24
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xd0000000 from 0xdfffffff to 0xcfffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0xf4004000 - 0xf4007fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0xf4008000 - 0xf40087ff (0x800) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0xf4000000 - 0xf4003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0xf4009000 - 0xf40090ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0xf5001000 - 0xf5001fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0xf5005000 - 0xf50050ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xf5004000 - 0xf5004fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0xf5003000 - 0xf5003fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [9] -1    0    0xf1000000 - 0xf1ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [10] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
    [11] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [12] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a803 (0x4) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000a410 - 0x0000a417 (0x8) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a003 (0x4) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x00009c10 - 0x00009c17 (0x8) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000c000 - 0x0000c07f (0x80) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
    [0] -1    0    0xf4004000 - 0xf4007fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0xf4008000 - 0xf40087ff (0x800) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0xf4000000 - 0xf4003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0xf4009000 - 0xf40090ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0xf5001000 - 0xf5001fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0xf5005000 - 0xf50050ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xf5004000 - 0xf5004fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0xf5003000 - 0xf5003fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [9] -1    0    0xf1000000 - 0xf1ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [10] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
    [11] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [12] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a803 (0x4) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000a410 - 0x0000a417 (0x8) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a003 (0x4) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x00009c10 - 0x00009c17 (0x8) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000c000 - 0x0000c07f (0x80) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
    [0] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) All system resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0xf4004000 - 0xf4007fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0xf4008000 - 0xf40087ff (0x800) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xf4000000 - 0xf4003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0xf4009000 - 0xf40090ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xf5001000 - 0xf5001fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [9] -1    0    0xf5005000 - 0xf50050ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [10] -1    0    0xf5004000 - 0xf5004fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [11] -1    0    0xf5003000 - 0xf5003fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [12] -1    0    0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [13] -1    0    0xf1000000 - 0xf1ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [14] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
    [15] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [16] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a803 (0x4) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000a410 - 0x0000a417 (0x8) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a003 (0x4) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x00009c10 - 0x00009c17 (0x8) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[b]
    [26] -1    0    0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
    [27] -1    0    0x0000c000 - 0x0000c07f (0x80) IX[b]
    [28] -1    0    0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
    [29] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[b]
    [30] -1    0    0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
    [31] -1    0    0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so
(II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 2.1.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9625
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libtype1.so
(II) Module type1: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.2
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
(II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9625
    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.0
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.1
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "wacom"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
(II) Module wacom: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) Wacom driver level: 47-0.7.2 $
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  1.0-9625  Thu Sep 14 15:35:06 PDT 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.3
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so
(II) Module ramdac: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 0.1.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
    [0] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0xf4004000 - 0xf4007fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0xf4008000 - 0xf40087ff (0x800) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xf4000000 - 0xf4003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0xf4009000 - 0xf40090ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xf5001000 - 0xf5001fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [9] -1    0    0xf5005000 - 0xf50050ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [10] -1    0    0xf5004000 - 0xf5004fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [11] -1    0    0xf5003000 - 0xf5003fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [12] -1    0    0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [13] -1    0    0xf1000000 - 0xf1ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [14] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
    [15] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [16] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a803 (0x4) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000a410 - 0x0000a417 (0x8) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a003 (0x4) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x00009c10 - 0x00009c17 (0x8) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[b]
    [26] -1    0    0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
    [27] -1    0    0x0000c000 - 0x0000c07f (0x80) IX[b]
    [28] -1    0    0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
    [29] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[b]
    [30] -1    0    0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
    [31] -1    0    0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[b]
(II) resource ranges after probing:
    [0] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0xf4004000 - 0xf4007fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0xf4008000 - 0xf40087ff (0x800) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xf4000000 - 0xf4003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0xf4009000 - 0xf40090ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xf5001000 - 0xf5001fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [9] -1    0    0xf5005000 - 0xf50050ff (0x100) MX[b]
    [10] -1    0    0xf5004000 - 0xf5004fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [11] -1    0    0xf5003000 - 0xf5003fff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [12] -1    0    0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [13] -1    0    0xf1000000 - 0xf1ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [14] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
    [15] -1    0    0xf0000000 - 0xf0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [16] 0    0    0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[b]
    [17] 0    0    0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[b]
    [18] 0    0    0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000a800 - 0x0000a803 (0x4) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x0000a410 - 0x0000a417 (0x8) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x0000a000 - 0x0000a003 (0x4) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x00009c10 - 0x00009c17 (0x8) IX[b]
    [26] -1    0    0x00009800 - 0x000098ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [27] -1    0    0x00009400 - 0x000094ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [28] -1    0    0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[b]
    [29] -1    0    0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
    [30] -1    0    0x0000c000 - 0x0000c07f (0x80) IX[b]
    [31] -1    0    0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bcff (0x100) IX[b]
    [32] -1    0    0x00002000 - 0x0000203f (0x40) IX[b]
    [33] -1    0    0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
    [34] -1    0    0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc1f (0x20) IX[b]
    [35] 0    0    0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[b]
    [36] 0    0    0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[b]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.

nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon May 15 13:23:42 PDT 2006

/etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)

#

This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using

values from the debconf database.

#

Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.

(Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)

#

This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*

if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg

package.

#

If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated

again, run the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"

#For Intuos3/Cintiq 21UX/Graphire4 tablets. It should NOT send core event Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "pad" EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection

Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "intl" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "stylus" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY Option "Type" "stylus" Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "eraser" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY Option "Type" "eraser" Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "cursor" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY Option "Type" "cursor" Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "pad" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY Option "Type" "pad" Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY EndSection

Section "Monitor" Identifier "AOC LM721" HorizSync 30.0 - 65.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection

Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]" Monitor "AOC LM721" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection

Thanks for the guide, managed to get it all up and running. Looks sharp.

Works perfect for me!

mine is NVIDIA GF4 MX440.

at first, I got a blackscreen after executed beryl-manager. after tryed:

sudo apt-get remove *compiz*
sudo apt-get --reinstall install  beryl-core beryl-plugins emerald beryl-settings beryl-manager beryl beryl-dev emerald-themes

It works perfect.

I want to confirm that Beryl works perfectly on an X-800 radeon card and the open source (r300) driver.

mgsfan said: I get this when trying to run the beryl wm ~$ Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0';

most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the window manager. Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults. Couldn't load theme. Reverting to defaults. XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

moved it to a different spot in the screen section and ran it again..and got this :~$ beryl-manager :~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: menu

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: shade

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:6037): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

and at the end of the crash log (beryl-manager:5058): WARNING : Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running? Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.

I get that error message every time I boot, the only way to get round it is this before running beryl-manager:

sudo apt-get --purge remove libxorg-sched-yield-hack0
sudo apt-get install libxorg-sched-yield-hack0

Every time I boot I have to do that :| Any way of getting round it?

chameleon_789 said: I get that error message every time I boot, the only way to get round it is this before running beryl-manager:

sudo apt-get --purge remove libxorg-sched-yield-hack0
sudo apt-get install libxorg-sched-yield-hack0

Every time I boot I have to do that :| Any way of getting round it?

Ya, I was getting that too, I ended up getting around it by right-clicking the ruby icon in the notification area and choosing a theme from the Emerald Theme Manager and then choosing Select Window Manager > Beryl from the ruby right-click menu as well.

Seems a theme isn't selected by default, so it doesn't know what to display, thus falling back to metacity. Hopefully that'll work for you.

Hi. Is there a way to use the default compiz theme with beryl, becouse none of the new cgwd stuff appeals to me, and i actually really like the default one :). Excellent guide though, real easy to setup and it works like a charm.

What everybody means in "it works perfect" ! For me yes it works X is not crashing but it's very slow compared to XGL, don't know where the problem come from maybe AIglx, Beryl or the nvidia driver (maybe me, don't know)...

This is the first time since i have installed XGL that i have to switch to the "old" metacity :???: , i hope it will be corrected soon, it's very strange to use an old static interface after using a 3d accelerated desktop :-D

Thanks to everybody for bringing us such a good software 8)

Ya, I was getting that too, I ended up getting around it by right-clicking the ruby icon in the notification area and choosing a theme from the Emerald Theme Manager and then choosing Select Window Manager > Beryl from the ruby right-click menu as well.

Seems a theme isn't selected by default, so it doesn't know what to display, thus falling back to metacity. Hopefully that'll work for you. Yep, that works, ty :D

Everyone, try putting ``` Option "TripleBuffer" "true"

robinl said: Hi I've recently dist-upgraded from dapper to edgy and followed this tut. But after I completed step 4 X or GDM or both refuses to start, instead freezes the computer. I've tried with and without the DisableGLXRootClipping line and it's still the same. Here are my xorg log and my xorg.conf:

<SNIP>

I also have this problem. Can anyone help? The nvidia splash doesn't even get a chance to come up. I've tried vga and dvi. Also maybe someone could just tell me how to roll back to the old nvidia drivers? I tried commenting out the amarath repo and reinstalling nvidia-glx. That worked but the kernel module was still for 9652 or whatever. PLease and thank you.

Edit - I've been running edgy all along before this for the record.

I followed the guide exactly and now am getting the blackscreen problem. When i run beryl or beryl-manager the screen goes black except for my mouse and any menus that i select. i have tried purging and reinstalling all of the packages as well as reinstalling the beta drivers using both methods. I am using a 6800 GT on a 1280x1024 DVI display. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks!

gils0040 said: I followed the guide exactly and now am getting the blackscreen problem. When i run beryl or beryl-manager the screen goes black except for my mouse and any menus that i select. i have tried purging and reinstalling all of the packages as well as reinstalling the beta drivers using both methods. I am using a 6800 GT on a 1280x1024 DVI display. any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks! Please check the configuring xorg.conf part completely.... I suggest uncommenting out Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

I had tried that before but tried it again after you suggested it and that did it!! thank you soo much for the quick response.

gils0040 said: I had tried that before but tried it again after you suggested it and that did it!! thank you soo much for the quick response.

No problem... It was only quick because i happenned to be here at the time :P

Updating a few things in the guide.

If you want quicker support, look for me, Amaranth lupine_85 in the #ubuntu-xgl on freenode.net in particular. However most people there should be able to help.

ah, so your lupine :)

scotty2hott2k said: ah, so your lupine :)Nope, i'm PriceChild.... lupine just wants to be me copying all my hardware.

BTW Amaranth is currently building l-r-m for -10 kernel

Just a quick clarification question:

Why doesn't this run as well as say...compiz on top of XGL? Is it because it has doesn't have direct access to the video card?

I love the guide by the way, beside a minor black screen issue which I am pretty sure is gone, it works flawlessly. Better than what compiz was too.

Because the drivers are not only Nvidia's first time supporting an extension, but beta as well.

It've been like this from compiz, and still is in beryl: black windows.

Please people, what "black screens" are you talking about? A screen is the entire visible monitor area. For me, certain windows (exluding the border) gets black. Tried epiphany, when making the windows smaller and smaller, after some 'limit' the window got visible again. Resizing around this limits makes the window area black again. Seems like some texture memory limit.

Have had the root clipping option on and off.

GPU is GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE.

Latest update include support for -10 kernel.

My performance is a LOT faster than xgl Grog140. Maybe try checking the guide carefully for all the small bits which could make big differences in performance.

Hmmm... still no solution to the problem of having to start manually beryl from the gem? I want to have kiba-dock as a starting program on my session but without an automatic startup of beryl from beryl-manager (which of course is also at my startup programs) I can't have it :(.... [-(

Currently, if you have beryl turned on, it tries to start on boot but crashes out..

its a bug, and will be fixed when the devs get around to it.

Rotarychainsaw said: I also have this problem. Can anyone help? The nvidia splash doesn't even get a chance to come up. I've tried vga and dvi.

Also maybe someone could just tell me how to roll back to the old nvidia drivers? I tried commenting out the amarath repo and reinstalling nvidia-glx. That worked but the kernel module was still for 9652 or whatever. PLease and thank you.

Edit - I've been running edgy all along before this for the record.

Well a quick search from the beryl forum gave me this:

sudo rmmod eeprom

which I did in recovery console and voila! X spring right back to action. However if you restart eeprom will still get loaded and get the same problem so I ended up renaming the eeprom module and now it boots fine. I think this is got to do with the "i2c patch" of the driver which is absent mentioned earlier in this thread.

Thanks so much! Worked without a hitch.

My mirror of the i386 repo by amaranth was broken for a short while about an hour ago.

Apologies for the inconvenience - it should all be fixed now.

xF,

...Nick

robinl said: Well a quick search from the beryl forum gave me this:

sudo rmmod eeprom

which I did in recovery console and voila! X spring right back to action. However if you restart eeprom will still get loaded and get the same problem so I ended up renaming the eeprom module and now it boots fine. I think this is got to do with the "i2c patch" of the driver which is absent mentioned earlier in this thread.

YEah!~ This worked, so I commented out eeprom in /etc/modules... I hope it's not too important haha. Thanks.

When I go to log out with Beryl activated as my window manager its as if the Logout options are invisible

They are still there, I can click around and hit one if I want but its a blind guess.

Not very annoying but I am just looking to see if anyone has experienced anything like this?

Grog140 said: ...I am just looking to see if anyone has experienced anything like this?

This issue has been around since at least September 4th with Compiz. This issue seems to have carried over to beryl.

See here: ***_Can no longer shut down computer after update_***. Rather lengthy thread at 6 pages, but it covers this issue quite thoroughly.

same here but I just switch back to metacity and restart that way

That's a bug in the way gnome-session does it's fade out effect.

One thing I really like is the fact that the *blur plugin* no longer causes my system to slow to a halt. Speed and usability is about normal. :mrgreen:

Works perfect for me. I'm using PIV 1,7 Ghz and Geforce 6600GT. Even while Edgy Eft, Nvidia drivers and Beryl itself are beta, it seems to be very stable.

What now ROCKS is i can play any opengl game while running beryl and they work exactly the same at AIGLX/Beryl as metacity. (fast) Latest version (benchmark plugin) is about 180 fps here.

Great work Amaranth, : -)

for me games run slower when using compiz/beryl.

What fps are you guys (and girls) getting from the benchmark plugin? I only get something like 14fps and beryl performed worse than compiz-quinn+XGL I had before.

only getting 60 fps here..with a 6800 xt

robinl said: What fps are you guys (and girls) getting from the benchmark plugin? I only get something like 14fps and beryl performed worse than compiz-quinn+XGL I had before.

~130 FPS with vsync disabled, GeForce go 7800gtx.

Games run much (more than 50%) slower, which is to be expected.

Edit: ~170 FPS with the blur plugin disabled.

I just wish to thank anyone involved with this howto and, sure, the developers. It is finally working on each three computers I use. The biggest problem was my laptop, I gave up all hope of ever having compiz/beryl on it. It was 256MB intel 855 based and obviously not top of the range. Now thanks to you guys it is working and it is FAST. Never thought that my laptop, without serious upgrade, would have those fancy effects.

Thanks again \\:D/

What resolution can you actually use with the beta nvidia driver? I can use only 800x600 @ 50hz that's right? :confused:

Not anywhere near as fast as XGL for me.. All I have to do is watch a video and my comp starts chirping at me and my fps drop to 35 from my v-sync of 75fps.

However the standard compiz runs fantastic, I guess thats why Beryl is pre alpha... it's pretty impressive this stuff runs at all on some really low end cards.

Has anyone gotten gmplayer (mplayer) to work? I tried these combinations with the result of mplayer hanging before any graphics shows up. No error messages appears.

Edgy + 1.0-9625 + Xgl + beryl Edgy + 1.0-9625 + beryl Edgy + 1.0-9625 + metacity

I'm at work right now so I can't do any further error investigating at the moment.

tw1ggy.ramir3z said: What resolution can you actually use with the beta nvidia driver? I can use only 800x600 @ 50hz that's right? :confused:

Option "UseEDID" "false"

Not sure if that does in Device or Screen.

Sorry for the noob question but there something i should have missed. Does beryl run with Xgl/Aiglx or does it just use xorg ?

This works great on my modest system: Celeron 2.6Ghz with 512M ram NVidia 5200fx pci with 256M ram (That's PCI [COLOR="Red"]not[/COLOR] AGP or PCI Express.

No noticeable slowdown and the animations all seem pretty smooth.

The only problems I've seen have already been addressed, crash on startup and no shutdown dialog.

frodon said: Sorry for the noob question but there something i should have missed.

Does beryl run with Xgl/Aiglx or does it just use xorg ?

You do not need Xgl/Aiglx.

frodon said: Sorry for the noob question but there something i should have missed.

Does beryl run with Xgl/Aiglx or does it just use xorg ?

To quote Quinn herself in this thread: http://forum.beryl-project.org/topic-4591-beryl-informations-announcement

"as for the X thing...aiglx is likely to be the future...but for now beryl will support any system that it can (aiglx, xgl, etc.)"

Amaranth said: Option "UseEDID" "false"

Not sure if that does in Device or Screen.

Oh thanks a lot! I love u! :D It does in Device! ;)

Thanks for the answer ;)

Where can i found a full beryl documention and explainations on how compiz has been tweaked to work with xorg ? Basicly i'd like to understand how it works and if it introduces the same bugs than compiz had for example with gdesklets.

frodon said: Thanks for the answer ;)

Where can i found a full beryl documention and explainations on how compiz has been tweaked to work with xorg ? Basicly i'd like to understand how it works and if it introduces the same bugs than compiz had for example with gdesklets. Join #beryl-dev on freenode, you can get more help with finding the detection code there. I know it first checks either XGL or AIGLX, then checks for nvidia, then checks for either XGL or AIGLX again (whatever one it didn't check the first time).

robinl said: What fps are you guys (and girls) getting from the benchmark plugin? I only get something like 14fps and beryl performed worse than compiz-quinn+XGL I had before.

Blur disabled: 166 fps Blur enabled: 131 fps

(82915/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller)

• Pentium 4 - 2.6 Ghz,
• 512 Ram,
• Intel Embedded graphics

Strangness here i come:

Fist of my Laptopdata: Tablett PC TC1100 from HP Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1000MHz Graphiccard: GeForce4 420 Go 32M (Yeah, such a smal one)

I finally got Xorg and Beryl working and they are somewhat slow... The benchmark gives a meager 60 Frames.

before the new nvidia XGL (with beryl) rendered something like 120 FPS and did so after the installation of the beta nvidia (right now as i am wirting this mail).

What is more confusing is that gxine makes Firefox crash when loading Quicktime-Movies in Xorg, but not in XGL. I can start "Sauerbraten" and "FrozenBubble" without problems in XGL, but Xorg blank-screens me...

Does anyone also have this stangenes???

How do you run/use the benchmark plugin in beryl? How do you pronounce beryl?

There is a plugin for this: beryl-settings plugin Benchmark, set some hotkey an there you go.

(I know this is not a real Benchmark, but it reflects the slagishness of my xorg desktop compared to the XGL one very well.)

More than likely that is due to you having Sync to VBlank enabled. It will top out at your current refresh rate. 'Only' 60 fps is plenty, this is NOT a first person shooter. 60 frames per second is the maximum the human eye can detect anyhow, well actually I've heard it's more like 30, either way, 60 is plenty smooth. If I have Sync to VBlank enabled I just shy of 60 (it actually runs at 58.30 to 59.40 or so though it seems every time I type it slows down a frame or two. The slowest it ever gets is around 40fps, when I switch workspaces, with the cube.

Leech

Wikipedia says: "An average 17" monitor can reach 85 Hz, meaning that any performance reached by the game over 85 fps is discarded. For that reason it is not uncommon to limit the frame rate to the refresh rate of the monitor in a process called vertical synchronization."

Basically, whatever your monitor's refresh rate is (say 75Hz) anything over that is a waste of processing power. If your refresh rate is 75Hz but beryl runs at 200 fps you actually get a poorer expierence because there is a lot of visible tearing.

Getting close to 400 FPS now with the latest svn code.

Just got an screenshot running Edgy/Aiglx/Beryl with Quake 3, Mplayer and Windows XP (Under VMWare) running with a few apps open.

Your packages just work great :)

The about 60 Frames are enough for me too, but unfortunately the framerate drops here to about 12 frames if i switch Desktop with a terminal with "top" command, an gnome-system-monitor, compiz-benchmark and a firefox with this forum. Not to speak of a running video for this test, which would reduces the switching to a real slideshow (i was short of counting the frames manually). Turning off synch to blank did not help (at least a visible not much).

With XGL much more is possible without a visible framerate drop.

pveith said: The about 60 Frames are enough for me too, but unfortunately the framerate drops here to about 12 frames if i switch Desktop with a terminal with "top" command, an gnome-system-monitor, compiz-benchmark and a firefox with this forum. Not to speak of a running video for this test, which would reduces the switching to a real slideshow (i was short of counting the frames manually). Turning off synch to blank did not help (at least a visible not much).

With XGL much more is possible without a visible framerate drop. Please check you've followed my guide applying all fixes... such as Triple Buffer.

I'm sure you can manage more :P

Yes i followed your guide step by step and did the triple buffering. I read the thread and tried anyting, which was mentioned and i could even vaguely connect to my problems. Great guide, thanx a lot.

Another interessting thing is that obviously the benchmark plugin feats on CPU-Time. While video and the other apps run like hell while switiching in XGL as soon as i turn on the benchmark switching gets "slow" (about 60 compared to 12 with xorg). Okay untill i get a better laptop, i will continue to use XGL. Nice that it works, but there seems to be a problem here with this hardware.

Maybe you could try again when the proper beryl packages get released... it might get sorted for you :)

Can it really be beryl that slows the framerate? Under XGL i use the same beryl and get much better results. I think it is the xorg that makes me slow down. Additionally there are the occational "blank"-screen with applications, where i have to minimize and then maximize the application to see the content instead ob a black pane. I suspect that 32 Megs is just not enough (from reading the minimum mentioned in the thread was 64 Megs). Has anyone also a 32 Megs Graphikcard?

Triple buffering almost certainly uses more video RAM, you probably want to turn it off. The next packages for beryl (coming in about an hour) make things _much_ faster.

I will definitly try it out. Beryl is really cool and your repo makes beryl goodness easy to install. Thanx a lot for your work.

I been keeping up to date with this thread and just wondered what are the differences between plugins? e.g. xgl/compiz and beryl?. Are there any more?

Any chance of some screenshots, showing new features?

$ gnome-window-decorator & $ export __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"; compiz --replace --use-cow gconf

this sped my compiz/beryl up considerably, also got rid of all tearing :)

Dinerty said: I been keeping up to date with this thread and just wondered what are the differences between plugins? e.g. xgl/compiz and beryl?. Are there any more?

Any chance of some screenshots, showing new features? Beryl/compiz--quinn has half a dozen more plugins than official compiz.

You might as well isntall both to see the differences.

Hi,

Just a note to say that this repository works excellently on my machines using Intel integrated graphics (865G and 945G). All that's different from the main HOWTO is:

Option "Composite" "true" EndSection

• Step 2: omit installing nvidia-glx (and possibly the libsched hack), then perform an apt-get upgrade
• Ignore Step 4, instead adding to xorg.conf, Section "Device":> Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" and at the end of the file: > Section "Extensions"

In Beryl Settings Manager, I recommend leaving the "Slowness Fix" enabled. While it seems to reduce the overall FPS via the benchmark plugin, it makes things more fluid (notably scrolling in applications).

I also recommend that you use the *-xine backend for your favourite player (totem/gstreamer) & use Xv output: *-gstreamer seems to have difficulty displaying Xv output while beryl is active (black output from totem/kaffeine after opening a movie, unless you drag the window and release again). Other output modes such as X11/Xshm work with the advantage that beryl can render their contents, but output quality is inferior compared to Xv.

That's it! Performance is excellent on my systems (on par with the speed of the NVIDIA beta driver & AIGLX, ignoring vsync as it's non-functional for the Intel driver). Give it a try!

Edit: Thanks to Lepto for pointing out a typo, added some recommended settings & video tips.

Amaranth said: Triple buffering almost certainly uses more video RAM, you probably want to turn it off. The next packages for beryl (coming in about an hour) make things _much_ faster.

So are the new packages ready?.

Thanks for all the time you put into this.

Just reporting a success story. This guide worked for me on the hardware described below. Support on the irc channel is quite helpful.

MSi 7800 (I'll have to crack the case to get the model #) P4 2.8G 1.5 G RAM GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x, unknown ram

I do have some issues but running "beryl-manager" from the command line is producing interesting output.

Here's an example.

beryl: 'plane' plugin conflicts with 'cube' plugin
beryl: Can't activate 'plane' plugin due to dependency problems
beryl: water: GL_ARB_fragment_program is missing

Also a right click on the title bar, select Move, it never lets go. That's entertaining ;-)

-mark

aka spinach

Hmm, the move thing does seem to be the case.

Hitting 'Esc' gets you out of the move state, but restores the app to it's original point in space. 'Enter' while in the move state finalises the move properly. Not sure if it's a bug or a feature...

xF,

...Nick

New "nvidia runs like it's on crack" packages are uploaded (and I believe already in lupine's mirror).

mmm..I'm having to reload beryl every few minutes ..it seems to crash and default to metacity for some reason with the update..noticed it crashes on random things..its crashed on restarting firefox,opening home, and closing a gaim window..also double clicking on a .torrent file.

mgsfan said: mmm..I'm having to reload beryl every few minutes ..it seems to crash and default to metacity for some reason with the update..noticed it crashes on random things..its crashed on restarting firefox,opening home, and closing a gaim window..also double clicking on a .torrent file.

Same here

Greetings

I don't have any windows decoration anymore I don't know why :(

Seems something is broken in here.

Also, I don't know if it's my fault or else, but the entry in /etc/mailcap is wrong for emerald.

mgsfan said: mmm..I'm having to reload beryl every few minutes ..it seems to crash and default to metacity for some reason with the update..noticed it crashes on random things..its crashed on restarting firefox,opening home, and closing a gaim window..also double clicking on a .torrent file.

I can confirm this... its not random... its something to do with openning and closing windows. However turning off the animation pluggin does not help this.

Pricey

PriceChild said: I can confirm this... its not random... its something to do with openning and closing windows. However turning off the animation pluggin does not help this.

Pricey I had the same problem, try disabling the "trailfocus" plugin.

syntax said: I had the same problem, try disabling the "trailfocus" plugin.

Thanks for the tip, it works. I've run beryl from shell, and it said "gdb: not found" when crashed. Without trailfocus it works fine. I hated that plugin anyway ;)

Also strange thing was happening to my desktop (I am using xfce). When clicking on it, it shifted up and down, making it almost impossible to click an icon. Now it is working fine. :)

Running nicely here without trailfocus. One question: I'd rather start beryl with the beryl --replace command. Do I need to use --use-cow or it's enabled by default? Any other option recommended?

syntax said: I had the same problem, try disabling the "trailfocus" plugin.

Thanks :)

I can't find this plugin! Where is it?

its called windows focus leaves a trail

After disableing the trailfocus plugin (which i kinda liked) beryl works smoother and faster under booth XGL and Xorg. Thanks a lot for the good work.

Thank you all SO MUCH for these packages and this thread! Everything just worked perfectly - no problems at all.

I have one problem - I had wobbly menus under Compiz and I can't find the same setting under Beryl.

Also, does anyone have a set of settings to make either Magic Lamp look more like the Genie effect in OS X? Just one curve and a slurp into the menu?

I'm confused as to what trailfocus actually did... will read up on it... nothing i'm missing atm :)

Thank Amaranth for all the packages! He's the one that's got everything working, answered all my questions to put in the guide etc.

Pricey

Trailfocus fade unfocused windows in black or change his opacity. I miss that feature, but for a moment i feel fine, because the rest works very well! :)

grendelkhan said: Thank you all SO MUCH for these packages and this thread! Everything just worked perfectly - no problems at all.

I have one problem - I had wobbly menus under Compiz and I can't find the same setting under Beryl.

Also, does anyone have a set of settings to make either Magic Lamp look more like the Genie effect in OS X? Just one curve and a slurp into the menu? Apple has a patent on the genie effect. I'm not kidding. :(

Amaranth said: Apple has a patent on the genie effect. I'm not kidding. :(

What a load of crap.

What about the wobbly menus? I can't figure out how to get that re-enabled.

Amaranth said: Apple has a patent on the genie effect. I'm not kidding. :(

too bad... (hope cornleius buys the patent, but now, it impossible...)

I've also updated to the "runs like on crack" version. I don't use trailfocus so no big problem for me. BIG improvement on FPS, from 180/200 to 800/900. (see screenshot)

grendelkhan said: What a load of crap.

What about the wobbly menus? I can't figure out how to get that re-enabled. In the settings manager go to wobbly, then look for the "Map Window Types" box and check the "DropdownMenu" option in this box.

Archville said: I've also updated to the "runs like on crack" version. I don't use trailfocus so no big problem for me. BIG improvement on FPS, from 180/200 to 800/900. (see screenshot)

What kind of hardware are you runnig on to get those framerates? I get about 160/170 fps with the new updates on a machine with a p4 2,6 gHz, 1gb memory and Nvidia geforce4 MX 440 SE

I'm using a P4 1,7 Ghz, 1Gb DDR 266 memory and a Nvidia 6600GT 128 Mb graphics card.

Thanks for the tip on wobbly menus. I missed it. : -)

Hah! 70fps with radeon 9250 / AIGLX.. I wanna see what this "runs like on crack" version runs like :p

Well, my GeForce Go 7400 only gets 2200 fps in glxgears (not a benchmark, I know) but I get up to 270 fps in beryl's benchmark tool if I turn sync to vblank off.

That's kinda strange, because i get like 1100/1300 fps on glxgears:

5808 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1161.313 FPS 6201 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1239.924 FPS

I also have vsync turned off. When enabled it goes down to 75 fps on beryl (as 75 is my monitor refresh rate). When disabled 800/900 with an average of 600/700 if Quake 3 or other heavy apps are open.

¿ Maybe some configuration parameter ?

Hi... i my system is P4 2.6, 512MB, NV6600LE 256MB and i get only 25-75fps on beryl.... what can i do?

Now this is cool! Beryl running on Kubuntu :) Works great. No more gnome for me... Compiz never worked that good for me with KDE but this rocks.

Couldn't resist...

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 768Mb RAM GeForce4 FX 5600xt 256Mb

Hi

the first hours Aiglx works fine for me, but now i cannot start the Xserver.

(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Is there a fix ?

For a few days, I have not been able to get windows decorations I don't really know why, I tried different themes but I cannot get theme, though I can move them and close / minimize / resize them with the 3 buttons on the top right corner. But theses buttons are like invisible ...

If you have any idea I'll be glad.

Though it's much faster now I think.

Fr3eMaN said: Hi

the first hours Aiglx works fine for me, but now i cannot start the Xserver.

(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Is there a fix ?

try running "sudo modprobe nvidia;sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart"

geearf said: For a few days, I have not been able to get windows decorations I don't really know why, I tried different themes but I cannot get theme, though I can move them and close / minimize / resize them with the 3 buttons on the top right corner. But theses buttons are like invisible ...

If you have any idea I'll be glad.

Though it's much faster now I think.

Me too I aslo get some windows that are all white or black. I get this also ``` Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32

And then A ton of this ```
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture

I have the beryl effects but no decorations

I'll post my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
#    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
#    Load          "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load           "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "DELL E153FP"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Driver         "nvidia"
#    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
#    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
#    Option         "backingstore" "true"
    Option          "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Monitor        "DELL E153FP"
    DefaultDepth    24    
    SubSection     "Display"
    # Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option          "RenderAccel" "True"
  
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

What happened to expose?

F12 doesn't do the expose thingy anymore.

mouse to top right corner of the screen.

hanzoman i think you need to use a default colour depth of 24 instead of 32

whoops... it is that way.

hanzomon4 said: Me too I aslo get some windows that are all white or black. I get this also ```

Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32

beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture

Same here with the black windows.

I don't get it.

I got it move ``` Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "True"

To the device section like this

Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500" Driver "nvidia" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

Option "backingstore" "true"

Option "TripleBuffer" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500" Monitor "DELL E153FP" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" # Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals

Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection

I got that from the compiz forums and it worked here

So.. is beryl faster with xgl or aiglx? What's the difference?

ok, i tried

sudo modprobe nvidia
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

i removed the nvidia driver and the restricted modules and so one, then i reinstalled them. I got a new :mrgreen: error message that the version of nvidia driver and the version of the nvidia kernel module is different (nvidia driver 1.0.9626+2.6.17.5-6 | Nvidia kernel module 1.0.8774). But i think i've installed the right version of restricted modules. Or is it possible that the 2.6.17-10-386 Kernel does not support the beryl packets? Thank's for help

edit: when i boot with the 2.6.17-10-386 kernel and tries to enter the Xserver , i get a black screen with no return, the keyboard does not react....with 2.6.17-9-386 Kernel i get the written error message

chameleon_789 said: So.. is beryl faster with xgl or aiglx? What's the difference?

Smoother, less of a hack than Xgl, lets you run games and videos without spawning a third xserver.

Having used Xgl since the first packages appeared for Ubuntu, let me tell you this is better. Follow the howto at the beginning of the thread and you'll be happy.

It feels better. movies games everything

WAIT I'm not sure that I am using AIGLX

Don't know if anybody else has asked this, but is anybody else having an issue with the Quit dialog? Like when using Beryl, I can't see the Quit dialog when I click to open it. The only solution I have is to switch back to Metacity. Any ideas?

I was about to ask the same. I get completely crashed if trying to quit

What are the option enabled/disabled in your nVidia Settings? I mean what have I to enable/disable to make things run faster? ;)

Fr3eMaN said: ok, i tried

sudo modprobe nvidia
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

i removed the nvidia driver and the restricted modules and so one, then i reinstalled them. I got a new :mrgreen: error message that the version of nvidia driver and the version of the nvidia kernel module is different (nvidia driver 1.0.9626+2.6.17.5-6 | Nvidia kernel module 1.0.8774). But i think i've installed the right version of restricted modules. Or is it possible that the 2.6.17-10-386 Kernel does not support the beryl packets? Thank's for help

edit: when i boot with the 2.6.17-10-386 kernel and tries to enter the Xserver , i get a black screen with no return, the keyboard does not react....with 2.6.17-9-386 Kernel i get the written error message

Check this guided out I used it for my custom kernels Latest Nvidia Dapper

I had to use Method two.

Sorry if I've missed it posted already, but the *Official* Beryl release is very close. The ***_Beryl Blog_*** is now open!

Ok guys, we are almost dropping the bomb! 0.1.0 is scheduled to release today or tomorrow - at least we hope so.

The developers have spent much time improving, bugfixing, experimenting and fiddling with it. As a result in beryl you can experience some new plugins:

• Blur is gone. We now use onestone’s blurfx plugin. Along with all the blurfx goodness known to some users, blur intensity is now tweakable. You can get a very strong blur with it :) . Also blurfx joined the reflection options. Oh.. one more thing: it can do motion blur. ROCKS!
• As stated in last point, reflection is gone!
• There’s a splash plugin. What does it do? It shows a splash screen when beryl starts up :) . Cool looking wobbly background included!
• Trailfocus plugin has been completely rewritten.
• Lots and lots of bugfixes…

after following the instructions from the beginning to tstep 3, "installing beryl" i run the command and receive this

:~$ sudo apt-get install beryl-core beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data emerald beryl-settings beryl-manager beryl beryl-dev 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-core: Depends: libxcomposite1 but it is not installable E: Broken packages

what should I be doing next?

hanzomon4 said: Me too I aslo get some windows that are all white or black. I get this also ```

Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32

beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x140000d to texture

I'll post my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
#    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
#    Load          "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load           "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "DELL E153FP"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Driver         "nvidia"
#    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
#    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
#    Option         "backingstore" "true"
    Option          "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Monitor        "DELL E153FP"
    DefaultDepth    24    
    SubSection     "Display"
    # Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option          "RenderAccel" "True"
  
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

hanzomon4 said: I got it move ```

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "True"

Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500" Driver "nvidia" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

Option "backingstore" "true"

Option "TripleBuffer" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500" Monitor "DELL E153FP" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" # Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals

Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection

I tried that but it did not help, but I found my problem, I needed to chose a theme :)

hi everyone!!

this may sound a bit stupid but... i don't have window borders when i activate beryl. on compiz, i found a check-box to enable it, but in beryl i couldn't find where to enable it. i can't move any window!! please check the attachment to see how it looks.

and i hope some one could explain me how to solve this problem! ](*,) ](*,)

sincerly nrayever

I had the same problem, try changing the default color depth from 16 to 24-bit, that worked for me.

You know... the first time I ever tried Ubuntu, I thought it was ugly (not my kind of colors and I always hated gnome) and never really gave it a chance past that... but once I tried Dapper, that got me hooked... I just wish I'd have seen this before I spent 6 hours trying to get beryl to work with aiGLX on Sabayon Linux... It seriously took me all of 15 minutes to get it up and running. That's a new record - Xgl + compiz took me a whole day and it still crashed every now and then.

And the "Dream" setting on both maximize and minimize... *drools*

Seriously... this is awesome! :)

etherealremnant said: You know... the first time I ever tried Ubuntu, I thought it was ugly (not my kind of colors and I always hated gnome) and never really gave it a chance past that... but once I tried Dapper, that got me hooked... I just wish I'd have seen this before I spent 6 hours trying to get beryl to work with aiGLX on Sabayon Linux... It seriously took me all of 15 minutes to get it up and running. That's a new record - Xgl + compiz took me a whole day and it still crashed every now and then.

And the "Dream" setting on both maximize and minimize... *drools*

Seriously... this is awesome! :)

Try Beryl on KDE... It's gr8!

menace1982 said: Try Beryl on KDE... It's gr8!

Hmm... should I just apt-get KDE then? Or would I be better off downloading Kubuntu and going that route?

Thanks for the guide PriceChild (and repository maintainers), this is sweet! :mrgreen:

btw. is "Water Effect" plugin broken on current SVN version? Sorry if this has been answered before.

Ok guys... Whoever wanted to ask whether its broken on the 386 kernel... Use the -generic kernel!!!

For the quit dialogue, there is a bit about it on the first post. open up gconf-editor and go to apps>panel>global and enable upstream. That's a temporary workaround.

Thanks mlind :) The repo maintainers are Amaranth & lupine_85 (he's got a different name on the forums, lupine_mickt or something)

Hopefully today or tomorrow, the release of 0.1 will mean i can change the instructions to add the official repos, while Amaranth and lupine will mirror.

Btw bug is now fixed to beryl loads automagically :D Was fixed by making beryl attempt to start twice.

nrayever said: hi everyone!!

this may sound a bit stupid but... i don't have window borders when i activate beryl. on compiz, i found a check-box to enable it, but in beryl i couldn't find where to enable it. i can't move any window!! please check the attachment to see how it looks.

and i hope some one could explain me how to solve this problem! ](*,) ](*,)

sincerly nrayever

Post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'd love to use Beryl, but sadly I can't get it to work.

In the past I had a Dapper install with working XGL+Compiz, so I know it's not my hardware's fault (1,4 Ghz Athlon, 512 MB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200).

I'm now running an up-to-date evrsion of Edgy. My first try getting Beryl to run was the day this Howto was created. I installed the new Nvidia driver from the repository, the new restricted modules etc. and followed the guide word by word. After a reboot I got an error message about an API mismatch.

So I downgraded my files to the Edgy repo versions again and waited until today.

This time (now with the 2.6.17.10-generic-Kernel) there was no more API mismatch, but I only got a black screen after X started. I also was unable to switch to a tty or do anything else.

Disabling trailfocus and removing "Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"" from xorg.conf didn't help.

Any ideas?

Is anyone elses beryl crashing with the new cvs update (20060927)? Seems to happen when opening and closing most apps or folders.

PriceChild said: open up gconf-editor and go to apps>panel>global and enable upstream. That's a temporary workaround.

Thanks! Now when clicking "Quit" while beryl is enabled, this dialog now appears. "Logout" brings you to the logon screen. from there you can reboot, shutdown, change session or whatever. Looks like it works a lot like *ctrl>backspace*. At least the quit button works now.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/unclespellbinder/Blog/Logout_Dialog.png[/IMG]

chameleon_789 said: Is anyone elses beryl crashing with the new cvs update (20060927)? Seems to happen when opening and closing most apps or folders.

Happend to me. Disabling "trailfocus" stopped it from crashing for me.

Next time you login "Quit" won't be there anymore, it'll be "Log out <user>..." and "Shut down...".

chameleon_789 said: Is anyone elses beryl crashing with the new cvs update (20060927)? Seems to happen when opening and closing most apps or folders.disable the trailfocus plugin.

Amaranth said: Next time you login "Quit" won't be there anymore, it'll be "Log out <user>..." and "Shut down...".

Oh, Thanks. Had to go to "*add to panel*" for the new applet. I now get this:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/unclespellbinder/Blog/NewShutdownDialog.png[/IMG]

PriceChild said: disable the trailfocus plugin.

I can't seem to find trailfocus (to turn off because of crashing)anywhere in the Beryl Settings Manager. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Porting this guide to doc.gwos.org...

check out http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/BerylOnEdgy :)

I'll add it to the ubuntu wiki too soon...

hanzomon4 said: Post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

here it goes!!

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	# path to defoma fonts
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"i2c"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"latam"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "stylus"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "eraser"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "cursor"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
	Driver		"nvidia"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	28-72
	VertRefresh	43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	# Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
	Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

	# If you are using an older version of compiz that
	# does not support rendering into the Composite
	# Overlay Window, you will need to disable clipping
	# of GLX rendering to the X Root window with this
	# option, or you will get a blank screen after
	# starting compiz:
	Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
	InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
	InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
	InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

recently i have changed the screen depth to 24, so i will give a try rigth now.

nrayever

Lupine's mirror has been synched to the official 0.1 release of Beryl!!! :D

You will still need to use Amaranth's for the l-r-m packages if you used nvidia's method 1 install.

PriceChild said: Lupine's mirror has been synched to the official 0.1 release of Beryl!!! :D

You will still need to use Amaranth's for the l-r-m packages if you used nvidia's method 1 install.

Not using nvidia, so I'll be staying with just this to ensure the official release.

deb [http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl](http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl) edgy beryl

Do I need to uninstall everything, or will everything meld together without any package deletion and such?

Everything should just upgrade fine :)

i'm currently changing the HOWTO.

whoops :S

So the Compiz Repos are being used?

Uncle Spellbinder said: So the Compiz Repos are being used?

I found this to contain new beryl (i386)

deb http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl edgy main-edgy

hmmm.. I am not understanding this..

As far as i understand, you MUST remove all existing xgl/aiglx from your system for this method.

How can I do this if AIGLX is built into Edgy?

Guide has been updated. Lupine is updated :)

tetrahedron said: hmmm.. I am not understanding this..

How can I do this if AIGLX is built into Edgy?You may have installed a separate AIGLX or XGL and these must be removed for optimal performance.

AIGLX extensions are built into xorg7.1, not a complete AIGLX. Really it depends who you believe ;)

If you haven't installed your own, then its fine :)

tetrahedron said: hmmm.. I am not understanding this..

How can I do this if AIGLX is built into Edgy?

That info is not true. AIGLX is built-in X.org 7.x and I guess you'll need that for beryl now.

thanks for the info :)

mlind said: I found this to contain new beryl (i386)

deb http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/beryl edgy main-edgy

Just got an update notification (using this repo: *_deb http://www.beerorkid.com/**compiz** edgy main-edgy_*), Checked Synaptic:

[[IMG]http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1651/berylupdatezw6.th.png[/IMG]](http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=berylupdatezw6.png)

Beryl will work on other aiglx/xgl solutions such as on Dapper... however you'll get best performance with this method!

WooHooooooooooooo!!

Beryl 0.1.0-1 installed and working PERFECTLY!

:D

Is the trailfocus plugin crashing fixed in this offical release and are there any other notable changes/improvements from the last set of unoffical packages?

I can't wait to give it a try when I get home :D

goonjamin said: Is the trailfocus plugin crashing fixed in this offical release and are there any other notable changes/improvements from the last set of unoffical packages?

Trailfocus is fixed... however its dropping my framerate down to 30.... at best.

haha.. I am a total n00b to this XGL/AIGLX + Compiz/Beryl... so please bear with me..

What I am not understanding here is...

XGL does all those advancement features in the X windows, like the cube, wobblely windows, stretch and twist windows, rain drops, etc.. etc..

right?

so does AIGLX that is built into X.org 7.1 as found in Edgy do this as well?

And then Compiz or Beryl allows transparency, blur and what not for various advanced themes?

THis is kinda of confusing, I would like to have awesome eye-candy.. and I just purchased a new laptop from system76 so I would love to show it off to friends, co-workers and family.

Can someone please explain to me the differences of XGL and AIGLX, yes I already read that XGL was more of hack and AIGLX had built in support of X.org... I mean how can I do those wonderful demo videos I have seen with XGL using AIGLX..

or am I just way off here?

It seems the trailfocus bug is fixed : -)

Does the nvidia-glx from the unofficial repo's have the i2c patch ?

No I don't think.

Norm 2782 said: Does the nvidia-glx from the unofficial repo's have the i2c patch ?

nvidia-glx is simply the latest nvidia beta as far as i know.

do the packages for the older kernels still work with edgy's beta 2.6.17.10 kernel?

I'm finding that fullscreen OpenGL games are black screens with this version... :rolleyes: They were fine before today's update - anyone got a fix??

EDIT: What a strange bug/feature! Under the general tab of beryl-manager, uncheck "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" otherwise all fullscreen aps are black... :confused:

puppy said: I'm finding that fullscreen OpenGL games are black screens with this version... :rolleyes: They were fine before today's update - anyone got a fix??

I just booted up NeverWinter Nights fine.

Woooooooooooo so nice, it works so well, for the first time I find it really smooth, I can now spin the cube and it's not using more than 6 percent of cpu ^^

Games are also faster but a bit slower than without beryl, but plenty enough for me, gotta to go back and play, thanks a lot.

Omg This lastest version is so fast getting 60fps with the triplebuffer option on , really smooth and not it finally starts with beryl as default windows manager no need to do anything else, all plugins working here.

I had Quinn Compiz working in Dapper without problems... recently installed Edgy with nvidia beta driver and beryl, the effects runs ok with good speed but all of the windows appears blank. I have read many howtos and tried a lot of options but nothing work.

My specs: Sony Vaio VGN-FS315S with nVidia GeForce GO 6400

PS: Hello everybody in ubuntuforums... I am reading this forum for a while, but never post. See you here (and sorry for my bad english :rolleyes: )

Try this.... click the beryl-manager and select "Enable Strict Binding".

Might help :)

Never had the problem so can't test.

I am getting an error that has No Title Bar screen shot below [[IMG]http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4341/screenshotcm7.th.png[/IMG]](http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotcm7.png)

PriceChild said: Try this.... click the beryl-manager and select "Enable Strict Binding".

Might help :)

Never had the problem so can't test.

Thanks but I have tried this... nothing happends... still blank windows .](*,)

WPAStrangla said: I am getting an error that has No Title Bar screen shot below

Could you try reloading beryl-manager in a terminal... maybe even 20 times say, allowing a few seconds for screen flickering to see if that works?

I remember some people had to do this originally on compiz--quinn.

After a Restart of my Computer surprisingly it was working! \\:D/

Edgy Eft and Beryl are looking real promising! :D

I am sad.. no GeForce2 Ti support for the 9625 beta drivers :(

I have Beryl running on the Edgy beta that just came out... when Beryl launches I see the splash screen, then a crash message, then the splash screen again. It seems to be working fine, but does anyone know why I get the splash screen twice?

brottman said: I have Beryl running on the Edgy beta that just came out... when Beryl launches I see the splash screen, then a crash message, then the splash screen again. It seems to be working fine, but does anyone know why I get the splash screen twice?

Splash screen was causing problems for me, so I disabled it.

I recently moved from cgwd/compiz/xgl to emerald/beryl/xorg-with-new-nvidia :)

While everything was smooth on my old configuration, the new one is far from usable. Black windows everywhere, slowness and somethimes crashes.

I'm not arguing anything, I'm just interested if this is an Xorg vs. XGL or an compiz vs. beryl result?

I'm getting weirdness -- a frozen black desktop, with one inset black square, where the video from the entire screen is reduced, and becomes corrupted. Nothing is frozen, if I get the mouse/cursor in the right place, I can continue to operate, but it's not exactly usable, or as intended, I'm sure.

EDIT:Screen shot now attached.

I don't even see the beryl splash screen..

Menus seem to only fade once, then never again haha. Anyone else?

You may want to make sure that all of the settings in your xorg.conf are in the right place, I'll post mine(again) so you can compare.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Mon May 15 13:23:42 PDT 2006

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
#    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
#    Load          "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load           "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "DELL E153FP"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
#    Option         "backingstore" "true"
    Option          "TripleBuffer" "true"
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500"
    Monitor        "DELL E153FP"
    DefaultDepth    24    
    SubSection     "Display"
    
    
  
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Rotarychainsaw said: Menus seem to only fade once, then never again haha. Anyone else?

Yep, but only since you said that :p

_< I did a fresh edgy install from the alternate disk, its I was able to successfully get X working with this driver, and since I I dont even get the gdm, I get a black screen. I have no idea why racking my brain on it... grrr....](*,)

OK, so the tiny black screen was due to the blurfx plugin. I disabled that (through ~home/.beryl/settings) and now I get a fully black screen, except for panels and window decorations. Here is my xorg.conf...

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Tue Aug  1 21:11:12 PDT 2006

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	# path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
	#Load	"dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load		"i2c"
    Load            "dbe"
	
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "120"
    Option         "RightEdge" "830"
    Option         "TopEdge" "120"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "650"
    Option         "FingerLow" "14"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "15"
    Option         "MaxTapTime" "180"
    Option         "MaxTapMove" "110"
    Option         "ClickTime" "0"
    Option         "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
    Option         "UpDownScrolling" "1"
    Option         "LeftRightScrolling" "0"
    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "50"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.505"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "1.05"
    Option         "AccelFactor" "0.030"
    Option         "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
    Option         "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
    Option         "CircularScrolling" "0"
    Option         "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
    Option         "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "true"
    Option         "GuestMouseOff" "0"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option          "TripleBuffer" 	"true"
    Option         "RenderAccel" 	"true"
    Option         "NvAGP" "1"
    Option         "nologo" "1"
    #Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
    Option 	"AddARGBGLXVisuals" 	"true"
    Option	"AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection


# If you are using an older version of compiz that
# does not support rendering into the Composite
# Overlay Window, you will need to disable clipping
# of GLX rendering to the X Root window with this
# option, or you will get a blank screen after
# starting compiz:
#  Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

followed the guide to a T, everything's working fine except for emerald themes. in order to change my themes, I have to delete .emerald, and relaunch emerald theme manager. Otherwise it just closes/crashes. Really annoying.

Anyone else have this problem?

Zyphrexi said: followed the guide to a T, everything's working fine except for emerald themes. in order to change my themes, I have to delete .emerald, and relaunch emerald theme manager. Otherwise it just closes/crashes. Really annoying.

Anyone else have this problem?

Yes, I just went through the how-to then and got the exact same problem.

well I followed it to a t, and well it seems the beta driver hates my 7800gt, so I have to use xgl for the time being, seriously though running edgy as is without xgl or aiglx my ram usage is somewhere near 250MB with its near 470MB. Not that I am complaining with 2 GB of it. Plx nvidia get I hope you iron out all the bugs soon. It was nice being able to run edgy and beryl with only 9% of my ram usage..... oh well

ok so pretty much everything works like a charm (albeit beryl is a little slow, but i'll deal with that later)

the problem is twinview, i'm not sure what happened but when i installed the new drivers, xorg thinks that my second monitor is the first one, and the *actual* first monitor won't go higher than 800x600, and even to get that i have to do it via nvidia-settings.

i suspect it has something to do with the monitor detection, because i am not sure if the 800x600 screen is compatible with that. anyway, here's my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006

#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg to reset configs

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	# path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 191.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
#    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
   Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
   Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
   Option         "DPMS" "true"
   Option         "TwinView" "true"
   Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
   Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
   Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
   Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-66"
   Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-130"
   SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "2560x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "true"
    Option         "DAMAGE" "true"
    Option         "RENDER" "true"
EndSection

any assistance would be greatly appreciated, my desktop is so tiny with only one screen!

Running perfectly. Not a problem in sight, thus far.

kingrayray said: ok so pretty much everything works like a charm (albeit beryl is a little slow, but i'll deal with that later)

the problem is twinview, i'm not sure what happened but when i installed the new drivers, xorg thinks that my second monitor is the first one, and the *actual* first monitor won't go higher than 800x600, and even to get that i have to do it via nvidia-settings.

i suspect it has something to do with the monitor detection, because i am not sure if the 800x600 screen is compatible with that. anyway, here's my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006

#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg to reset configs

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	# path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 191.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
#    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
   Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
   Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
   Option         "DPMS" "true"
   Option         "TwinView" "true"
   Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
   Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
   Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
   Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-66"
   Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-130"
   SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "2560x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "true"
    Option         "DAMAGE" "true"
    Option         "RENDER" "true"
EndSection

any assistance would be greatly appreciated, my desktop is so tiny with only one screen!

under the twinview true line try adding these

Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"

adjust you where you want your second monitor and the resolutions.

Excellent! Thanks, spockrock. The orientation line was the problem. Odd that it worked without it using the old driver though.

:)

no problemo......

Ok, I inadvertently lied. When I first added the Orientation line it worked, then when I next restarted X, it just.. didn't anymore. Been tinkering with it for about 45 mins and I'm stumped- here's my updated xorg.conf

# vidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006

#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg to reset configs

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	# path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 191.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
#    Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
   Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
   Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
   Option         "DPMS" "true"
   Option         "TwinView" "true"
   Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
   Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
   Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
   Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
   Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-66"
   Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-130"
   SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "2560x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option         "Composite" "true"
#    Option         "DAMAGE" "true"
#    Option         "RENDER" "true"
#EndSection

also the apparent error in Xorg.0.log is as follows:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): Cannot find size of first mode for @@@ (CRT-0); cannot compute
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     DPI from @@@ (CRT-0)'s EDID.

the problem is the meta mode line, try commenting it out, and see, if that does it, but then your monitors wont be 1280x1024. BTW I think the driver is complaining that your monitor cannot handle that resolution, or isn't supported, on one of the monitor.

Yeah, commenting out the meta mode line made them both come on properly. But the rest doesn't make much sense to me, before installing the beta nvidia driver, it worked fine using the exact same settings. And 1280x1024 is the *native* resolution for the monitor that nvidia is complaining about.

My only suspicion is that the @@@ monitor doesn't work with EDID, which would explain why the driver can't tell what kind of monitor it is. However I tried disabling EDID in xorg.conf to no avail.. bleh :(

Well it would seem as the only bug I'm having is Emerald crashing like others have said.

Any idea what causes that?

Other than that, the only other issue I'm having is rain freezing the computer and I really think that's user error so I won't complain.

I'm quite surprised. I spent hours trying to get beryl to work with Sabayon Linux and never got anywhere and it was supposed to be supported out of the box... then I'm back to Ubuntu and voila!

I don't care too much about the Emerald themer but I would like to have rain stop freezing my computer... I'm going to tweak with it.

I did notice some serious slowdown (more jerkiness than I've ever seen on my 7900GT) in OpenGL after running Beryl - even after using the beryl manager to switch back to Metacity - sounds like something isn't getting totally released when the window manager is closed out.

kingrayray said: Yeah, commenting out the meta mode line made them both come on properly. But the rest doesn't make much sense to me, before installing the beta nvidia driver, it worked fine using the exact same settings. And 1280x1024 is the *native* resolution for the monitor that nvidia is complaining about.

My only suspicion is that the @@@ monitor doesn't work with EDID, which would explain why the driver can't tell what kind of monitor it is. However I tried disabling EDID in xorg.conf to no avail.. bleh :(

well it is a beta driver right, its got problems, I just get a black screen instead of a login screen when I either use the debs or nvidia .run on my 7800gt. But works perfectly on my 5600FX. I guess we will have to wait for nvidia to iron out the kinks. Hopefully it will be really soon.

spockrock said: well it is a beta driver right, its got problems, I just get a black screen instead of a login screen when I either use the debs or nvidia .run on my 7800gt. But works perfectly on my 5600FX. I guess we will have to wait for nvidia to iron out the kinks. Hopefully it will be really soon.

imho nvidia typically does a pretty good job of keeping us linux users pretty happy, so i have faith in them ironing out the kinks :)

is there anywhere i can go to look at/send reports upstream to nvidia?

cleentrax said: OK, so the tiny black screen was due to the blurfx plugin. I disabled that (through ~home/.beryl/settings) and now I get a fully black screen, except for panels and window decorations. Here is my xorg.conf...

I think the issue is your Geforce 5200GO. I see the exact same issue with mine, see here for some possible approaches and reasons for it: http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/201 and if you feel like it, do provide some comment, the more, the better ;)

kingrayray said: imho nvidia typically does a pretty good job of keeping us linux users pretty happy, so i have faith in them ironing out the kinks :)

is there anywhere i can go to look at/send reports upstream to nvidia?

Post to the nvnews.net forums. In the linux section, Zander is one of the developers of the nVidia linux drivers. At least I think he is. He is the one that releases patches, etc.

Leech

its great to see lots of people having success, however for those that aren't, i would suggest also checking out #ubuntu-xgl on irc.freenode.net for realtime support. (as long as you're lucky to find someone there).

I'm sure Amaranth, lupine_85, conn won't mind me suggesting them especially in the channel (they've always sorted me out :)

Remember if you don't get a reply immediately, there's probably no-one there atm, people have jobs and work to do! Just be patient and keep trying! This eyecandy's DEFINATELY worth it :D

brottman said: I have Beryl running on the Edgy beta that just came out... when Beryl launches I see the splash screen, then a crash message, then the splash screen again. It seems to be working fine, but does anyone know why I get the splash screen twice?

Due to a bug, Beryl can't normally automatically start first time. A very hacky hack has been introduced which makes it launch twice. By the looks of it, your beryl IS starting first time, only to be relaunched.

Be patient :)

etherealremnant said: Well it would seem as the only bug I'm having is Emerald crashing like others have said.

Any idea what causes that?If i were you, i would uninstall ALL beryl and emerald packages, then do a[code rm -R ~/.beryl* && rm -R ~/.emerald*Before reinstalling to see if that makes a difference.

etherealremnant said:

Other than that, the only other issue I'm having is rain freezing the computer and I really think that's user error so I won't complain.

I'm quite surprised. I spent hours trying to get beryl to work with Sabayon Linux and never got anywhere and it was supposed to be supported out of the box... then I'm back to Ubuntu and voila!Your graphics card may not have the required extensions to allow rain, i don't know. Personally, after 30 mins of turning rain off, my FPS slows to 30FPS.

Rain isn't useful, it just slows EVERYTHING to near unusability so if i were you i just wouldn't bother.

etherealremnant said:

I did notice some serious slowdown (more jerkiness than I've ever seen on my 7900GT) in OpenGL after running Beryl - even after using the beryl manager to switch back to Metacity - sounds like something isn't getting totally released when the window manager is closed out.

Yeah i'm getting the same jerkyness with the OpenGL apps... although its fine when i disable Beryl. Still completely usable with beryl :)

Beryl Problem I have a edgy eft installation with all the beryl packages from the repositories mentioned in this howto. I also installed Compiz.

Now when I run beryl-settings it just crashes with the following error message:

ERROR : no d_ for a_active_plugins

aborting... Aborted (core dumped)

When I run the beryl-manager all the window decorations vanish, but the plugins seem to load. this is the printout when I run beryl-manager > Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: menu

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: shade

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky Reloading... Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults. Reloading... Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky Reloading... Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: menu

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: shade

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:9231): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

(process:9499): WARNING : bailing, couldn't find a val for active_plugins in [_]->a_active_plugins or [_]->d_a_active_plugins XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

(process:9523): WARNING : bailing, couldn't find a val for active_plugins in [_]->a_active_plugins or [_]->d_a_active_plugins X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present

(process:9739): WARNING : bailing, couldn't find a val for active_plugins in [_]->a_active_plugins or [_]->d_a_active_plugins X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Compiz works well. I do not have any problems with that.

my xorg.conf file is pretty much like the one recommended here.

Uncle Spellbinder said: Running perfectly. Not a problem in sight, thus far.

I spoke to soon.

Using

• Beryl 0.1.0-1 * Ubuntu Edgy Eft, fully updated * kernel 2.6.17-8-generic, version 2.6.27-8.22

Each time I boot up the system and log in, the panel is empty, no applets at all. If I restart x, the pane is fine. Ideas? :-k

System start: [[img]http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7825/systemstartberylsx5.th.png[/img]](http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=systemstartberylsx5.png)

After restarting X (ctrl > backspace): [[img]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5644/restartxberyldu0.th.png[/img]](http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=restartxberyldu0.png)

This s what I have installed:

beryl 0.1.0-1
beryl-core 0.1.0-1
beryl-dev 0.1.0-1
beryl-manager 0.1.0-1
beryl-plugins 0.1.0-1
beryl-plugins-data 0.1.0-1
beryl-settings 0.1.0-1
emerald 0.1.0-1
emerald-themes 0.1.0-1

Success here on a 7600GT! Thanks for the guide.

Little note, however: I tried this first with the ubuntu.compiz.net (or something like that) repository and a few packages couldn't be retrieved. Switching to the lupine mirror worked fine, but just as an FYI. :)

Uncle Spellbinder said: I spoke to soon.

Using

• Beryl 0.1.0-1 * Ubuntu Edgy Eft, fully updated * kernel 2.6.17-8-generic, version 2.6.27-8.22

Each time I boot up the system and log in, the panel is empty, no applets at all. If I restart x, the pane is fine. Ideas? :-k

I have the same, also met problems with gnome-settings-daemon while running beryl. After reloading X (without rebooting all system, so probably something is not killed and that results in problem), gsd not able to run again. That's looks rather beryl bug than nvidia beta driver problem. But what can we expect from 0.1.0 :)

I had still left the compiz repos in my list and beryl upgraded last night like a champ! Everything works great, turned trailfocus back on, I can't get over how nice this is!

Thanks to everyone in this forum, thanks to amaranth to packaging the beta nvidia drivers!!!

I get the occasional black window with some IMs, and sometimes when I alt+v+o to view source.:(

bimbo said: I think the issue is your Geforce 5200GO. I see the exact same issue with mine, see here for some possible approaches and reasons for it: http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/201 and if you feel like it, do provide some comment, the more, the better ;)

Ding Ding Ding!

Indirect rendering fixes some of the problem, but it's still unusable. I know my card is on the low end, but XGL and Compiz was finally usable before I made the switch to Beryl. I thought that getting rid of XGL would actually reduce the load on my card and its lowly 32mb of RAM.

Great HOWTO, Thanks for it, almost everything is working, but gnome-settings-daemon crashes :\

It writes:

dani@paks:~$ /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
��[1159647586,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/]      The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the applicationCould not initialize GStreamer: unknown error occurred

Any ideas? Thank you!

BTW I was posted over at nvnews, I found out, if anyone else is experiencing a black black screen at gdm, and the system is unresponsive. If you have lm-sensors configured as I did, loading the eeprom module will cause this black screen. To fix it I simply, did;

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add a hash infront of eeprom.

for example I had this in there.

#i2c chip drivers eeprom it87

changed to;

#i2c chip drivers #eeprom it87

boots perfectly and now I am running edgy and beryl < 250MB

btw looking at conky I dont see a problem with not loading eeprom, you can load it after x starts though.

To those with panel problems, have you renamed you .gconf and .gnome folders in your home dir? If you rename them to .gconf1 and .gnome1 or similar then new ones will be created with the defaults. I did this and havent had a panel problem yet, not sure if its luck or if it fixed it.

Having new ones created will reset the panel and nautilus settings which may help, if not then you still have the origional ones to revert to.

@ Dr. Nick

THANKS! It worked like a charm. Had to reconfigure things to the way they were (about a half hour), but all is well. And I can now use the default quit icon to shutdown, reboot, etc as well. This was an issue with compiz and now with beryl. You may have solved two problems!!

Thanks again!!!!!

Uncle Spellbinder said: @ Dr. Nick

THANKS! It worked like a charm. Had to reconfigure things to the way they were (about a half hour), but all is well. And I can now use the default quit icon to shutdown, reboot, etc as well. This was an issue with compiz and now with beryl. You may have solved two problems!!

Thanks again!!!!!

glad it worked:KS I picked it up a while back while messing with compiz, forgot about it untill now when I started having the issuse again, and saw others having them aswell.

Found (i hope) cause of my gnome-settings-daemon problem. After logout or reloading X, [COLOR="Red"]gconfd-2[/COLOR] process is not killed, and that's causing gnome-settings-deamon to crash.

Doe's anyone have "black screen problem" after switching between different tty and then back to X terminal? System freezes and i can only see mouse cursor in the middle of the screen. No respond to crtl+alt+fx and ctrl+alt+bckspc. :confused:

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@kakulacis: Got exactly the same "black screen" problem.

BTW: Only the first loged-in user has beryl 3d effects. The second user just has the standard "metacity" windowdecoration.

kakulacis said: Doe's anyone have "black screen problem" after switching between different tty and then back to X terminal?

System freezes and i can only see mouse cursor in the middle of the screen. No respond to crtl+alt+fx and ctrl+alt+bckspc. :confused:Yeah i get that.... you'd be wise to practice turning off metacity before switching from now on.

Hopefully we'll get a fix soon :)

I wonder if the black screen issue is because of AIGLX, beryl or the beta drivers.

Can someone with (this issue and) xgl and old compiz installed try to see if it's the same thing with a few large windows open to see if it's the beta drivers. It might be crappy texture management. Btw, is it possible to see how many MB is used on the graphics card? Can't find any util for this.

opera118 said: I wonder if the black screen issue is because of AIGLX, beryl or the beta drivers.

Can someone with (this issue and) xgl and old compiz installed try to see if it's the same thing with a few large windows open to see if it's the beta drivers. It might be crappy texture management. Btw, is it possible to see how many MB is used on the graphics card? Can't find any util for this. Most instances of black screens i've seen have been caused by incorrect xorg.conf configuration. Please check my instructions again.

Others seem to be on cards with only 32mb of memory, or 5200GOs.

ok... I think I am missing the complete obvious here...

How do you diable the trailfocus plugin??? Everyone seems to know what this thing is!

Thanks

Ok, so I'm not sure what differences there are between Beryl and Compiz.

But as for XGL vs AIGLX, can I play games and watch movies if I fol,ow this tutorial (that was why I got rid of XGL on dapper)?

@Pricechild : a little something you may want to add

Option "NvAGP" "1"

To the device section.

And to be sure that the nvidia agp gart is being used, you can check with an lsmod. For me even with "1" it does not work, I have to rename via-agp.ko to something else (blacklist does not seem to work). With that I get about twice as much fps on glxgears as I do without this.

kcy29581 said: How do you diable the trailfocus plugin???

Open Beryl Settings Manager, scroll down to the trailfocus plugin, uncheck.

geearf said: @Pricechild : a little something you may want to add

Option "NvAGP" "1"

To the device section.

And to be sure that the nvidia agp gart is being used, you can check with an lsmod. For me even with "1" it does not work, I have to rename via-agp.ko to something else (blacklist does not seem to work). With that I get about twice as much fps on glxgears as I do without this. I'm undecided about adding this as i've heard that many people are having huge troubles with agp and latest nvidia drivers...

I'll have a play and ask a few people :)

Hey guys Beryl installed fine on Edgy, however when I move windows and cube it's really sluggy and laggy, anyone have any similar situation?.

On Nvidia 6800

Dinerty said: Hey guys Beryl installed fine on Edgy, however when I move windows and cube it's really sluggy and laggy, anyone have any similar situation?.

On Nvidia 6800

Yeah...same here on a Quadro. Changing the refresh rate helped with moving windows, but not the cube.

PriceChild said: I'm undecided about adding this as i've heard that many people are having huge troubles with agp and latest nvidia drivers...

I'll have a play and ask a few people :)

Well I'm only having pros with this no cons, but up to you.

testube_babies said: Yeah...same here on a Quadro. Changing the refresh rate helped with moving windows, but not the cube.

No luck here, will keep an eye out and report back if I find anything. Have you always had this problem or was it due to a update?

Dinerty said: Hey guys Beryl installed fine on Edgy, however when I move windows and cube it's really sluggy and laggy, anyone have any similar situation?.

On Nvidia 6800 Are you sure that you've followed EVERYTHING in my howto?

I'm on a 5600xt and its just stupidly smooth.

sharperguy said: Ok, so I'm not sure what differences there are between Beryl and Compiz.

But as for XGL vs AIGLX, can I play games and watch movies if I fol,ow this tutorial (that was why I got rid of XGL on dapper)? Follow this guide and games will still be as fine as before you started :)

PriceChild said: Are you sure that you've followed EVERYTHING in my howto?

I'm on a 5600xt and its just stupidly smooth.

I removed:

Option          "TripleBuffer" "true"

from my device section and all works fine !!!

Hi,

today I surprisingly succeeded to get Beryl running on Dapper with MX 4000

Just one question:

the screensaver doesn't start any longer. Any clues ?

Yours,

Mic

testube_babies said: Yeah...same here on a Quadro. Changing the refresh rate helped with moving windows, but not the cube.

Hey mate I just got my Beryl running as smooth as on xgl/compiz, it may help for you:

Try

Beryl Settings Manager > General Options > Un-tick Synch To VBlank

or try un-ticking

Slowness Fix

Hope this helps

beryl-start is not there ... Can someone paste the content of it since I don't want to use beryl-manager.

Thanks

Entity said: beryl-start is not there ... Can someone paste the content of it since I don't want to use beryl-manager.

Thanks

Why?

Entity said: beryl-start is not there ... Can someone paste the content of it since I don't want to use beryl-manager.

Thanks As far as i know there is no "beryl-start" as such?

What do you dislike about beryl-manager?

Its extremely useful for launching fallbacks.

I simply don't want to see the icon.

Got it from prg on #beryl (freenode.)

$ cat Scripts/gui/beryl-start

eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session); beryl & emerald

holy beryls batman!!!

chaginig the depth was the solution!!! beryl is damn nice!!!! :D :D maybe i need to play more with the beryl setting to have fx like compiz!!

i love linux + ubuntu edgy eft + beryl :KS :KS

nrayever

ps: still a bit unstable, because when i close any window it goes back to metacity but i still love it!!

Dinerty said: No luck here, will keep an eye out and report back if I find anything. Have you always had this problem or was it due to a update?

I had no problems with Compiz in Dapper, but after a clean install of Edgy + Beryl the problems came about.

Whats the best video output setting? I get the same cpu usage(20-30%) no matter what I pick and the quality looks about the same.

nrayever said: still a bit unstable, because when i close any window it goes back to metacity but i still love it!!

Please ensure you have updated to 0.1 from an official beryl repo.

If you still encounter problems, simply disable the trail plugin.

Having problems with conky and Beryl, conky is "flickering" every 30 seconds or so, causing the current window to become unfocused.

Any of you guys know anything to solve this?

I firstly just want to thank all of the people for creating beryl, xorg, the nvidia team for the beta drivers and all those great open source programmers.

Then I'd like to damn you all to hell, because now I can't go use Windows ever again without wanting my applications to wobble! :D

It's seriously hard to even boot into windows to play a few games now without expecting my gui to just look cool. I am using the crystalClear theme from crystalxp.net in Windows XP, which helps with the look a lot, but it seems to chunky and unresponsive compared to Beryl and Gnome.

Though I have had a few crashes here and there, but considering it's a 0.1.0 release, I'd say it's quite good!

I still wish Metacity would get all it's compositing working, because it's better to have the default in there and working, though I tend to agree with a post Quinn made about making a Beryl DE. Leave Metacity to the Gnome people and make a DE that's somewhere in between KDE and Gnome. I'm thinking something like Enlightenment. Also it makes one wonder if since we now have all the AIGLX extensions working with all but the fglrx drivers, if Enlightenment will start using full openGL, though from what I've seen of E17, it's already plenty fast and full of eye-candy.

Leech

Yes! :) It finally works! :)

I found the hint to comment out "eeprom" in /etc/modules in another message board. After this I could finally start Xserver with the newest Nvidia driver without any more black screens.

PriceChild said: Please ensure you have updated to 0.1 from an official beryl repo.

If you still encounter problems, simply disable the trail plugin.

thanks PriceChild. i had updated to 0.1 and now it's ok! right know i'm trying kiba-dock too. and it work really cool!!

nrayever

Can the first post have this bug mentioned, the eeprom module being loaded before x to causes, the screen to be black and unresponsive. Commenting out eeprom in /etc/modules.

Toe said: Yes! :)

It finally works! :)

I found the hint to comment out "eeprom" in /etc/modules in another message board. After this I could finally start Xserver with the newest Nvidia driver without any more black screens.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77472 if it was in that thread, then xspinkickx is me.

spockrock said: Can the first post have this bug mentionedIts been added to the howto for you :)

PriceChild said: Its been added to the howto for you :)

thanks hopefully this will help other people who got the same problem.

Geearf... if you're still following this then i've got a reply to your AGP thing!

I just did a ``` [SIZE=-1]cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

Pricey
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yes, but not for everyone :)

Quite a long post, please bear with me...

During the last two updates i have done Ubuntu has told me that it need to do a distrobution update but said this may be because i am using a development version and so i was not worried, however, to my horror, the last update decided it needed to remove the nvidia beta drivers (being click happy i didnt notice this till it was too late).

After rebooting and finding X server would no longer start i found the source of the problem and then tried to restore the nvidia-glx drivers however it failed saying the it needed an "nvidia-kernel" module. At this point i realised i was in big trouble so i restored my orginal sources.list and installed the old nvidia drivers and sure enough gnome and X started again.

However now i have a new problem in that whenever I log in it fires up "berly-manager" and crashes my desktop (as i added this to my session startup). I tried uninstalling berly-manager (so that it would fail to launch it) but apt-get says it cannot find the package.

From the looks of things i am going to need to reinstall but i have some files on the machine i need to backup so, does anyone know how i can prevent berly-manager from starting so i can rescue my files and does anyone have any idea what could have caused it to remove the beta nvidia drivers in the first place via this "distrobution upgrade" (im am new to linux so the chances are this is something i have done by mistake)?

Thx in advance Karail

Karail: If you can get to gdm, log in in a "failsafe" gnome session.

This can be done by clicking the sessions button and then choosing it before logging in. No startup scripts will be run, and you will be able to remove beryl-manager before logging back in again normally.

Geearf: to those who don't have agp enabled, i suggest they look here: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Nvidia_Driver_AGP_FastWrite_and_Side_Band_Addressing

AGP isn't required for Beryl, and is much better contained there in its own howto for those who want to try it out.

Pricey

Hey you have no need to reinstall I think.

About the packages try removing beryl*, it should do it.

Also if you can't login, you can still use the terminal, or you could also try to log in as a root (if you created a root user, please don't blame fellas I still like to have a root user).

Anyway you'll find plenty of ways to get out this mess I'm sure.

thanks guys, doing remove berly* fixed it (for some reason gnome-safe still ran beryl-manager). Now i just have to figure out what happened and reinstall berly.

Ok, new problem ;)

I am getting the following error when trying to install the nvidia beta drivers, any ideas what it means:

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:
  nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625

Ubuntu put out a new build of the kernel today and Amaranth hasn't updated his repos. Wait a few days and he'll have it fixed. I saw that update this afternoon and checked if his or Ubuntu's module was going to be loaded, so I waited to install the updates.

Hi all,

I just followed the guide tonight and now have wobbly windows and cube desktop!

I sometimes have to start beryl a few times beofre everything fires up.

Diesel1.

I find the package cgwd-themes surfing in the web. I put the folders in emerald themes folder and all is up and running. :)

I put the package on:

www.ldc.usb.ve/~02-35050/

Karail said: Ok, new problem ;)

I am getting the following error when trying to install the nvidia beta drivers, any ideas what it means:

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:
  nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625

hi everyone:

i'm getting the same error. was my mistake to make that update. i have some doubts to ask. it's better to install the nvidia drivers from nvidia installer?? or should i wait for amaranth to update his computer/repositories??

is there any significant difference between these two methods??

or maybe i should install nvidia drivers by nvidia installer and then remove it to install amaranth deb package??

nrayever

Would the Debian 1.0-9625 Nvidia driver debs for AMD64 work? Or would they need to be compiled against the current Ubuntu kernel? http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/ (http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers.html)

You NEED to have the nvidia modules compiled against your current kernel.

The debian one will be slightly different and not load.

Run the nvidia installer for the time being if you still want it.

ajibarra said: I find the package cgwd-themes surfing in the web. I put the folders in emerald themes folder and all is up and running. :)

I put the package on:

www.ldc.usb.ve/~02-35050/

Or you could download emerald-themes

Rather than have to recompile the nvidia driver every time I upgrade kernels, I'm just waiting for Amaranth to update. Till then, I'm doing selective installs instead of doing a dist-upgrade.

PriceChild said: Most instances of black screens i've seen have been caused by incorrect xorg.conf configuration. Please check my instructions again.

This is not the case. I've tried with and without all options. Note, in compiz+xgl things like these never happened, no black windows even with Lots of large windows open. This is CLEARLY something in EITHER aiglx, beryl or the beta drivers.

PriceChild said: Others seem to be on cards with only 32mb of memory, or 5200GOs.

I have 64 mb 6200 GO, which worked with compiz.

Again, I'd like to know if anyone knows how to see how many mb's are used in the graphics card, surely this must be possible.

Not sure how to check memory usage, but if you right click the beryl icon in the tray thier is something you can enable that is supposed to fix the black window bug. I never had the error using xgl+compiz either, but now it is sportatic, clicking that checkbox seemed to cure it.

I am not on my linux system now so I forgot exactly the name of the option, but its right their in the menu from the tray icon

Karail said:

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: nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625

I was stupid enough to upgrade too.. I wonder how many ppl have made the same mistake today!

opera118 said: This is not the case. I've tried with and without all options.

Note, in compiz+xgl things like these never happened, no black windows even with Lots of large windows open. This is CLEARLY something in EITHER aiglx, beryl or the beta drivers.

I have 64 mb 6200 GO, which worked with compiz.

Again, I'd like to know if anyone knows how to see how many mb's are used in the graphics card, surely this must be possible.

I have a GeForce4 420 Go 32M, which works like a charm with beryl . Only things i cant do -without really slow framerates- are blur and trailfocus. But i also get some blank screens now and then, i just minimize maximize them and there is the content (not really much pain). It doesn't help to activate/deaktivate Sync-to-VBlank, nor does the option "Enable strict binding" help. But that does not bother me too much. The working speed is perfekt and i get all the eyecandy... I suppose that the blank-out-bug is with xorg/aiglx, as it doesn't happen under xgl with beryl.

pveith said: Only things i cant do -without really slow framerates- are blur and trailfocus

And water? Just a joke :)

Yeah forgot the ever so useful water plugin. (A friend of mine ran a gnome booth on a linux convention here in germany. And a pair of "i really would like to try out linux" users had a look at our ubuntu-gnome-compiz desktop and liked all effects except the rain. The funny thing was they had not expected that you can turn the rain of... :-D )

opera118 said:

This is not the case. I've tried with and without all options. Note, in compiz+xgl things like these never happened, no black windows even with Lots of large windows open. This is CLEARLY something in EITHER aiglx, beryl or the beta drivers. Ok then... most solvable cases were by this method. And yes, a lot of people are having troubles with beryl when they didn't with compiz.> opera118 said:

I have 64 mb 6200 GO, which worked with compiz.

Again, I'd like to know if anyone knows how to see how many mb's are used in the graphics card, surely this must be possible.Well you are using a GO, i may have the model number wrong from memory.... but it is a pattern of people using GOs ;)

I have a problem!!

Beryl is correctly installed and it works fine.

But sometimes ubuntu stop suddenly to work, I don't get an error but simply I can't do anthing more and the only thing I can do is to press the restart button on my case.

Does anyone has te same problem??

Anybody getting a Black screen after switching from a TTY terminal?

hanzomon4 said: Anybody getting a Black screen after switching from a TTY terminal?

Yeah known issue.

I advise switching to metacity wherever possible before playing around.

Dangit I shouldn't have reinstalled my edgy laptop. When I did the nvidia script (option 2) it killed off my wireless network card. I think it had something to do with removing the restricted modules.

brottman said: Dangit I shouldn't have reinstalled my edgy laptop. When I did the nvidia script (option 2) it killed off my wireless network card. I think it had something to do with removing the restricted modules.

Ah... yes... sorry.

I'd better make a HUGE warning there... Sorry :S

Get on #ubuntu-xgl on irc.freenode.net to mither Amaranth to build nvidia-glx again and find somewhere to repo it! :)

On a related note... Is there an ETA on when the beta nvidia driver will go gold?

No worries PriceChild. Seriously thank you for everything you do. You rock.

brottman said: No worries PriceChild. Seriously thank you for everything you do. You rock.

Two mistakes in one day... just be thankful you're not this guy.

Please everyone make backups, and check everything you press yes to.

If you're not sure, then keep stable and ask first.

I am just a newb at all of this afterall and we all make mistakes.

Hopefully if you're reading this you're doing it on a testing box so it shouldn't matter, but be careful, don't just use other people's code if you don't understand it. And that includes ONLY using signed packages from trusted sources... (i.e. i don't really advise Amaranths but instead installing the nvidia script ;) )

Pricey

brottman said: Dangit I shouldn't have reinstalled my edgy laptop. When I did the nvidia script (option 2) it killed off my wireless network card. I think it had something to do with removing the restricted modules.

Which wireless card do you have?. I'm using a Centrino (PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network) and wondered if I followed option 2 if it would break mine also?

It looks like this laptop has a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card (checked in winxp). I don't know for sure if it would break yours but my hunch would be yes. Maybe smarter people here know for sure :)

brottman said: It looks like this laptop has a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card (checked in winxp). I don't know for sure if it would break yours but my hunch would be yes. Maybe smarter people here know for sure :)Just been having a discussion in #ubuntu-xgl about ipw and i've heard that they're open source and so included in the kernel rather than the l-r-m.

"i've heard"

Pricey

Just curious PriceChild is there any way to use the nvidia script without removing the restricted-modules first? Or maybe to rephrase the question - Is there any way to use the nvidia script without losing support for things such as wireless cards?

Sorry Price Child, but any chance that the new restricted modules are are going to be compiled??? Or should we just use the nvidia script.

I haven't been able to get in touch with Amaranth for a few days... He does have several other projects, including being the author of Alacarte.

Hopefully i'll get something sorted out for us :)

Whoups i did it again. I unintentionally upgraded the restricted modules (all my fault, none PriceChilde or Amaranth). Now i am too lazy to downgrade, so i just changed driver in xorg (replacing nvidia with nv) and i got normal xorg until amaranth finds the time to update the modules (then just replace nv with nvidia after upgrading and restart gdm / computer / whatever). I thought this might be a mighty good suggestion to anyone as lazy and unattentive as myself.

i managed to get it all up and running but i have no decoration! (aka titlebar) on my windows.. i mean.. linuxes... hmm any help? I'm so desperate to show this to my friends lined up against vista im running edgy's latest beta on a amd64 X2 4600 , 512mb ram POV Geforce 7600GS PCIE , ASUS A8N-SLI SE thanks guys

pveith it may be some time till Amaranth can sort out new packages. And i'm not even going to attempt to learn how to build etc. until i'm moved in nice and stable in a couple of days.

hereitcomes said: i managed to get it all up and running but i have no decoration! (aka titlebar) on my windows.. i mean.. linuxes... hmm

any help? I'm so desperate to show this to my friends lined up against vista im running edgy's latest beta on a amd64 X2 4600 , 512mb ram POV Geforce 7600GS PCIE , ASUS A8N-SLI SE thanks guys Could you check that your defaultdepth is 24? not 32?

I would advise you join the irc channel for realtime help, there was quite a few last night all with this problem but different solutions.

pveith said: Whoups i did it again. I unintentionally upgraded the restricted modules (all my fault, none PriceChilde or Amaranth). Now i am too lazy to downgrade, so i just changed driver in xorg (replacing nvidia with nv) and i got normal xorg until amaranth finds the time to update the modules (then just replace nv with nvidia after upgrading and restart gdm / computer / whatever).

I thought this might be a mighty good suggestion to anyone as lazy and unattentive as myself.

Thank you yes it was,=D> now all I have to do is read 43 pages to find out how I fix this completely.:wink: Anyway this should be under the first post. I.e. How to get back into GDM if..... : replace nvidia with nv in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Code: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

:D

I agree that replacing 'nvidia' with 'nv' is a cheap and dirty fix for the problem, although of course this means that Opengl games, screensavers etc will not work until a proper solution is found - at least this fix provides you with a useable desktop again...

puppy said: I agree that replacing 'nvidia' with 'nv' is a cheap and dirty fix for the problem, although of course this means that Opengl games, screensavers etc will not work until a proper solution is found - at least this fix provides you with a useable desktop again...

I have just decided to install the official nvidia driver, its not hard to install......

PriceChild said: pveith it may be some time till Amaranth can sort out new packages. And i'm not even going to attempt to learn how to build etc. until i'm moved in nice and stable in a couple of days.

Could you check that your defaultdepth is 24? not 32?

I would advise you join the irc channel for realtime help, there was quite a few last night all with this problem but different solutions.

What irc channel is that? my default depth is 24, though i do have to reinstall the drivers every time i reboot I am getting a no GLXFBConfig for 32 error (or something like that) and an error about pixmap when emerald tries to start thanks for the help

Wonderful guide, I'm up and running on an Inno3d geforce 7800 GT.

Yeah sometimes it's a pain when restricted modules gets upgraded; I just tend to keep the latest binary nvidia-driver downloaded on my desktop. If gdm refuses to start then it's as easy as writing :

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop cd Desktop sh NVIDIA******.run

Let the installer do its thing, and you're up and running again.

Some of us need other things from linux-restricted-modules so that's not an option. I've found a host for my repo but right when I was going to upload the packages Ubuntu jumped two revisions ahead of my packages so I have to redo them again.

hereitcomes said: i do have to reinstall the drivers every time i reboot

This is probably caused by you installing nvidias script for drivers without removing the l-r-m.

The irc channel is #ubuntu-xgl on irc.freenode.net

Amaranth said: Some of us need other things from linux-restricted-modules so that's not an option. I've found a host for my repo but right when I was going to upload the packages Ubuntu jumped two revisions ahead of my packages so I have to redo them again.

Thanks for all your hard work, where would we be without you and PriceChild

I will probably end up in dependancy hell, but who cares now? ;) ---- Please note, the the following description can not only corrupt some maybe not to useless part of your brain, but also -if you do the same thing- deliver you directly to dependancy hell (at least this is what i expect some time later). DO NOT FOLLOW THIS unless you are okay with a broken X / EDDGY. ----

Okay during the last update i saw that my xorg-nvidia-driver was the beta one and the official update left the nvidia-glx-package out. So i smelled a smal chance that i might get beryl up and running before amarath come around to recompile the restricted modules in his repros. I took the chance and did a manual install of the betadrivers (ignored all crys for "You are not supposed to do this, it flung at me). And here i am with a running beryl and dependency hell is nicer than i thought. ;)

Again don't do this, if you don't have the guts to live with a broken system...

P.S. i am now rebooting to see if this survives the next boot (probably will have to rebuild the intrd.img). EDIT: Unexpectatly it worked without any later tweaking...

panickedthumb said: hey, anyone have a themes package for emerald themer? The cgwd-themes and cgwd-themes-extras packages could probably be ported, but I can't install them while compiz isn't installed.

You can also rename .cgwdtheme to .emerald and import as normal :-)

PriceChild said: This is probably caused by you installing nvidias script for drivers without removing the l-r-m.

The irc channel is #ubuntu-xgl on irc.freenode.net

thanks for your help i followed a guide on beryl-project forums and its working a treat now! only problem is that the power button not only doesnt work, but crashes the system :S anyone else had that problem?

Is anyone else having problems actually downloading the Beta drivers?? I click on the links on various sites and I can't get the file... :-k

Amaranth said: Some of us need other things from linux-restricted-modules so that's not an option. I've found a host for my repo but right when I was going to upload the packages Ubuntu jumped two revisions ahead of my packages so I have to redo them again.

thank you amaranth for your hardwork.

****@****-desktop:~$ beryl-manager

beryl-manager: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by beryl-manager)

What did I do wrong? :(

Thanks for the guide though. :)

hereitcomes said: thanks for your help

i followed a guide on beryl-project forums and its working a treat now! only problem is that the power button not only doesnt work, but crashes the system :S anyone else had that problem? Yeah that's a bug.

Your system isn't crashed, just press "Esc" and get normal use.

To be able to use the button, open up "gconf-editor" and go to apps>panel>global and check the "upstream session" box.

Pricey

Do we know what is causing this, bug, on my xubuntu box when I try to logout, it crashes. however the logout button works like a charm on my ubuntu box.

Folks I'm still having this mismatched kernel module/driver problem - can anyone advise how I can resolve it please? ](*,)

i started getting that too... screw beryl. I just want my nvidia driver back. (using nv now)

Amaranth said: Some of us need other things from linux-restricted-modules so that's not an option. I've found a host for my repo but right when I was going to upload the packages Ubuntu jumped two revisions ahead of my packages so I have to redo them again.

hi amaranth

what to you think about making the nvdia-glx package after the kernel freeze?? i know that we may have to wait a lot of time, but kernel updates will be every day at least, don't you think??

13 days sounds like a lot, but may go fast, and maybe you wouldn't even notice. this is just an idea. i really miss the beryl effects and gaming but, i think that i have to wait for a good cause.

if you think you should make packages every day, that's good for everyone. hehehehe.

thanks a lot amaranth and pricechild.

nrayever

Well to solve the mismatch thing just install/revert back to the amaranth version of linux-restricted-modules by doing this:

sudo aptitude install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic=2.6.17.5-6~amaranth

and maybe pin it until kernel freeze or amaranth make a new restricted-module package maybe?

Amaranth if you are willing to tell me how, or if there is a tutorial you would like to point me to, I am willing, to help out and building debs.

PriceChild: An update on using method 2. I decided to follow method 2 on a clean install of edgy with all updates. The only change I made was I left out this line:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-restricted-modules-uname -r linux-restricted-modules-common nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common

Now I have the nvidia beta drivers up and running, the l-r-m still in place with my wireless card working properly, and Beryl is up and running!

So now I'm wondering.... why do we really need to remove the l-r-m to do method 2? Mine seems to be working great leaving it in place.

In a slightly related post to brottman's, I was going to install beryl via the guide on post 1 of this thread tonight. I've got an AMD64 machine with the latest edgy. When I got to the part:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-restricted-modules-uname -r linux-restricted-modules-common nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common

apt-get wanted to remove a bunch of packages that I didn't think should be removed (eg. xorg*, linux-amd64-k8*, ubuntu-desktop*, etc. 74 in total) I cancelled the removal, and am wondering if it should be removing ~74 packages, or if it's just my machine. After brottman's post, I am wondering if I need to remove l-r-m at all. I decided not to do "option 1" with the amaranth l-r-m method because it said it was broken.

AdamDunn said: In a slightly related post to brottman's, I was going to install beryl via the guide on post 1 of this thread tonight. I've got an AMD64 machine with the latest edgy. When I got to the part:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-restricted-modules-uname -r linux-restricted-modules-common nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common

apt-get wanted to remove a bunch of packages that I didn't think should be removed (eg. xorg*, linux-amd64-k8*, ubuntu-desktop*, etc. 74 in total) I cancelled the removal, and am wondering if it should be removing ~74 packages, or if it's just my machine. After brottman's post, I am wondering if I need to remove l-r-m at all. I decided not to do "option 1" with the amaranth l-r-m method because it said it was broken.

Option-1 is broke so its good you didn't try that one. I am far from an expert, but I believe option-2 will work fine if you skip that line that uninstalls the l-r-m, as long as you don't have the nvidia-glx package installed from the official reps. I would advise uninstalling that first, then do everything in Option-2 except the line you quoted.

But again, I am still new at this. I don't care if I mess up my own computer but I don't want others to mess up theirs from anything I said :)

And to answer the other question in your post, if it is trying to remove 74 packages something is definetely wrong.

I don't know if it has been brought up yet on how to use the beta drivers from Nvidia, I have had little luck on finding info on how to fix the "black screen on bootup" problem....but I did find it at the NVnews forum.

Apparently it is a problem with the SMBUS.

Remove the restricted modules and all nvidia-glx stuff. Make sure all of your headers are installed for the kernel you are running.

Download the beta driver and run it with the --extract-only switch. Download zanders patch on this page http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77021&page=2

Apply the patch as per post#117 on page8 of that thread:

cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625-pkg1 patch -p0 < whereyourpatchlive/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-9625-NOSMBUS.diff.txt

Then run nvidia-installer in that directory. Everything should work now, you might need to adjust your xorg.conf if the installer didn't get it right.

Hope this helps someone, that post sure helped me....I am running the beta drivers with beryl and having a blast...much faster than Dapper/XGL/compiz

Mike

Another update to l-r-m again today. Stopped my X from working. Heres how I fixed it.

1. ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console to login at.
2. Run the nvidia script again (Not sure if this was actually neccessary)

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625-pkg1.run

1. Tell Ubuntu not to load the 'nv' driver in the l-r-m

sudo nano /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Add "nv" to DISABLED_MODULES

Reboot & enjoy the wobbly windows again.

I have 3 words for you :

I Love You ! :KS

robinl said: Well to solve the mismatch thing just install/revert back to the amaranth version of linux-restricted-modules by doing this:

sudo aptitude install linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic=2.6.17.5-6~amaranth

and maybe pin it until kernel freeze or amaranth make a new restricted-module package maybe?

Yes. I just put in /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: origin dev.realistanew.com
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then

sudo apt-get -uf dist-upgrade

And it works.

Ok i can confirm being able to keep lrm installed and install nvidia's script.

I'm guessing this is because Amaranth's are still working slightly on my system without nvidia-glx.

changing howto to reflect this.

(btw i doubt we'll get a new lrm from Amaranth until kernel freeze: he built one last night which was immiedately superseeded.

PriceChild, you do not need the dev.realistanew.com rep to do option #2 (script method). I would advise removing that as well as the line that removes the l-r-m because it may mess up a bunch of laptops. I would also put a note in there about adding "nv" to tell the l-r-m not to load it in this file:

/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Kernel freeze is tomorrow, btw. As far as I can tell there is no reason to upgrade your l-r-m right now, the newer versions only change things for powerpc.

Kernel freeze means we should have lrm (and kernel) updates near to 0, isn't it? So are you going to release a new .deb after freeze? I'm stick with last working version of packaged nvidia beta driver and the same kernel revision..

How do I fix it and get my nvidia drivers back? I don't feel like messing around with this for a while.

use module-assistant to build kernel module and compile nvidia-glx package from debian unstable.

Amaranth said: Kernel freeze is tomorrow, btw. As far as I can tell there is no reason to upgrade your l-r-m right now, the newer versions only change things for powerpc.

amaranth:

is kernel freeze really tomorrow?? [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]because according to this wiki, the kernel freeze is on october 16. who's right and who's wrong?? :???: :???:

this is a bloody mess!! can someone explain me please!![/COLOR]

sorry my mistake. sorry amaranth

nrayever

nrayever said: amaranth:

is kernel freeze really tomorrow?? because according to this wiki, the kernel freeze is on october 16. who's right and who's wrong?? :???: :???:

this is a bloody mess!! can someone explain me please!!

nrayever

read the wiki again, its October 5th.

Exclamation said: read the wiki again, its October 5th.

sorry exclamation! i just checked it again and i saw the right date. my mistake, i need new glasses.

nrayever

ps: sorry amaranth

No need to apologize, it was an easy mistake, I had to check it twice to make sure. Its confusing because its a numbered list with 16 on the side.

PriceChild said: [CENTER][LEFT]

[/LEFT] [SIZE=6][COLOR=Red] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Black][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Remember that following this method requires a reinstillation of them every time the kernel changes.

[SIZE=6][/SIZE]

Ok, the kernel just changed and my x brioke ("No screens detected"). How do I reinstall the drivers from the command-prompt ?

trommas said: Ok, the kernel just changed and my x brioke ("No screens detected"). How do I reinstall the drivers from the command-prompt ?

Just run the script again

sudo sh NVIDIA<<randomness>>.run

trommas said: Ok, the kernel just changed and my x brioke ("No screens detected"). How do I reinstall the drivers from the command-prompt ?

Trommas, I posted how to fix this in post #451.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1579587&postcount=451

ok, i followed the tutorial, and there is *no* beryl-start, and if i run beryl or beryl-manager, x restarts and i get the login manager again.

If i dont answer after you replying to me its becasue im away for about a week. ;)

I just started using linux a few days ago. Just today I got the beta nvidia drivers installed and then started playing around with beryl. I tried to enable the rain effects and suffered a hard crash. Now when I try to start up beryl again I get the following

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: dbus_bus_get error: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
beryl: Plugin 'dbus':initDisplay failed
beryl: Couldn't activate plugin 'dbus'
beryl: 'settings' plugin must be loaded after 'dbus' plugin
beryl: Can't activate 'settings' plugin due to dependency problems
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I tried to uninstall beryl and reinstall it, but I think that I don't fully understand how to uninstall yet.

I forgot to add this part...

emerald: Connection Error (Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
5002: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 4767.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
5002: arguments to dbus_connection_set_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 4731.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

brottman said: Trommas, I posted how to fix this in post #451.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1579587&postcount=451

I installed the beta drivers from the repo, so I've got no .run

How can I fix it?

Thanks

goldenatom said: I tried to uninstall beryl and reinstall it, but I think that I don't fully understand how to uninstall yet.

try:

sudo aptitude remove --purge beryl-core beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data emerald beryl-settings beryl-manager beryl beryl-dev emerald-themes

then

rm -R ~/.beryl*
rm -R ~/.emerald*

then reinstall with:

sudo apt-get install beryl-core beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data emerald beryl-settings beryl-manager beryl beryl-dev emerald-themes

Trifid said: What did I do wrong? :(

Thanks for the guide though. :)

I got the same thing? anyway it's late and I'm tired, hope someone can help.

Thanks for the help. That did work, but once I reinstalled I still got the same error. Is there something I'm not doing right?

goldenatom... it worked? but then didn't later? What did you do inbetween?

Btw option 1 is now fixed!!!

Amaranth has made a new repo at

deb http://amaranth.selfip.com edgy lrm

Sorry, what I should have said was. The uninstall worked just fine, but once I reinstalled I still got the same error.

Where does beryl install to by default?

just upgraded now and everything works fine...held back on updating till option 1 was fixed and had over 300 updates..lol

mgsfan said: just upgraded now and everything works fine...held back on updating till option 1 was fixed and had over 300 updates..lol

I wasn't quite that bad, I'd been doing selective updates and doing apt-get installs of everything BUT the kernel, but it was still not pretty.

All updated and ready for reboot!

pricechild and amaranth thanks a lot!! now i have beryl and kiba-dock again!! thank you for your work!!

nrayever

thank you very much guys, the rep works perfectly.

Hum... no chance, The beta drivers are giving me a screen resolution of max 800 x 600... guess I'll have to wait till the next release. :(

Hi, I followed your guide and installed the latest nvidia-drivers from amaranth's repo's. I'm using nvidia-glx-legacy and Xfce4

But I have problems with GLX. This is what I get when I start Beryl:

~$ beryl-manager
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault

** (beryl-manager:5449): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3600003 (Software U)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2c00020 (Terminal -)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

PriceChild said: goldenatom... it worked? but then didn't later? What did you do inbetween?

Btw option 1 is now fixed!!!

Amaranth has made a new repo at

deb http://amaranth.selfip.com edgy lrm

Thanks. Finally I can 'unhold' my restricted modules. 8)

gosh said: Hi,

I followed your guide and installed the latest nvidia-drivers from amaranth's repo's. I'm using nvidia-glx-legacy and Xfce4

But I have problems with GLX. This is what I get when I start Beryl:

~$ beryl-manager
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault

** (beryl-manager:5449): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3600003 (Software U)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2c00020 (Terminal -)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

Try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "Extensions"
     Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

molgar said: Try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "Extensions"
     Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Nope, don't work. It says:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault

Could you post you xorg file here? Maybe that will help with comparing with those who have it working

Yes Thank you Both for all your hard Work! I'm so happy I have completely switched to linux now!:p Thanks again, Vae

Guy with the GLX problems... keep trying... post your xorg.conf , ask for help in the irc channel! Sorry I can't help personally :(

You've got this to look forward to though:

Vae Victis said: Yes Thank you Both for all your hard Work! I'm so happy I have completely switched to linux now!:p

Thanks again, Vae Good to see it going for someone else :)

@gosh can you do a glxinfo in a terminal to see what it say ?

Tnx! updated my repos, made a dist-upgrade, and everything went smooth... 2.6.17-10 up & running (& wobbling!) I love .deb based beryl+modules installation!

I followed the 1ste option, and almost everything seems to work, except the wobbly windows. Too bad, cause that's one thing I really liked before, the wobbly movement of the drop down menu's :)

I've noticed that Beryl's not as wobbly as Compiz was and I don't know why.

Everything fine except i have no window borders after running beryl-manager. when i minimise windows i get effects etc so mostly seems to be working. anyone know how to get the window borders back?

found the checkbox in the settings for windo decs - sorry..

gosh said: Nope, don't work. It says:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault

I am confused, I thought the new drivers do not support legacy cards....could you tell us what video card you are using?

Beryl crashes as I start it, the output is something along the lines of "can't find XGL, found NVIDIA, Restarting with (insert strange parameter), can't find XGL, found NVIDIA" and then the window titlebars disappear. If I run beryl-manager instead of just beryl, I also get the icon in my notification area. Any hints?

Thanks for the great Howto.

Does anybody else feel that Edgy+Beryl+NvidaBeta seems to run a little bit slower than Dapper+Compiz+Nvidia ?

tt101 said: Thanks for the great Howto.

Does anybody else feel that Edgy+Beryl+NvidaBeta seems to run a little bit slower than Dapper+Compiz+Nvidia ?

I think that's the general consensus. Playing around with configuration (VSync, refresh rate, etc) can help out but it is a bit sluggish.

disable the blur plugin, that can kill a video card.

Got it all working, but there's two more problems; 1) Autoscrolling in firefox seems quite buggy [[IMG]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4788/screenshoteb3.th.png[/IMG]](http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshoteb3.png) 2) Opacity on menus doesn't seem to be working on most menus (namely the alt+space menus and the main menus) even though I have a state entry for opacity set for w:menu:75

Has anybody else experienced these problems or perhaps even experience a solution?

spockrock said: I am confused, I thought the new drivers do not support legacy cards....could you tell us what video card you are using?

I'm having the same problem as Gosh using on-board Nvidia 6150LE. Am I out of luck w/this card?

Didjit

mediumcool said: Everything fine except i have no window borders after running beryl-manager. when i minimise windows i get effects etc so mostly seems to be working. anyone know how to get the window borders back?

found the checkbox in the settings for windo decs - sorry..

Another cause of this problem is failing to set the Default Colour Depth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 24 bit (it defaults to 16 bit after driver installation).

Perhaps this should be added to the guide? I reached page 30 or so of this thread before I identified this problem.

Also, does anyone know which effect it is that causes drawers on Gnome panels to behave oddly? It's the only problem I'm getting.

Thanks!

BitTorrentBuddha said: Got it all working, but there's two more problems;

1) Autoscrolling in firefox seems quite buggy [[IMG]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4788/screenshoteb3.th.png[/IMG]](http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshoteb3.png) 2) Opacity on menus doesn't seem to be working on most menus (namely the alt+space menus and the main menus) even though I have a state entry for opacity set for w:menu:75

Has anybody else experienced these problems or perhaps even experience a solution?

I found out that number 2 needs to be w:dropdownmenu:75, still don't have an answer to #1 though.

Works nice from first try. No bugs encountered yet.

Hey there, this guide worked perfectly with Nvidia's official drivers. Yet, now I found out my wireless card doesn't work since I deleted the linux-restricted-modules so I will follow method 1 of the nvidia driver install on the guide. Can I just follow method 1 and that will automatically disable the Nvdia official driver or do I have to uninstall the driver first somehow?

I'm having problems playing OpenGL games, specifically UT2K4. A few seconds into the game, it'll freeze up for 10 seconds, unfreeze, then freeze up again. I have to enable Software rendering instead of OpenGL to be able to play.

Am I doing something wrong?

disable beryl when running opengl games

I have to install xserver-xgl? Dont find any package named aiglx or smth. else...

Topic title sais:

Re: HOWTO: Beryl with latest nvidia drivers and Edgy's built in AIGLX (no XGL)

Yea..but... I have to start a NORMAL Gnome Session?! Nothing like that: ?

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Xgl
Exec=/usr/bin/startxgl.sh
Icon=
Type=Application

Thats it with XGL..what about AIGLX?

Now i tried this with a normal Gnome-Session, the problem is: with Composite "0" i cant start beryl...with composite "1" i dont have Direct rendering... (ATI)

chris@home:~ beryl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
beryl: No composite extension

I've had lots of trouble the last days..... I even couldn't run gdm!! Had to install kubuntu so I could check my mail and things. But now I am nearly up and running. (typing this from my old laptop)

I will post my xorg.conf tomorrow. My videocard is a GeForce2 Go I think. Check that tomorrow as well

ATI still needs XGL to work.

Right, still the same problem: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".etc.

This is what my xorg.conf looks like:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildd@rothera)  Thu Jan  5 15:32:31 UTC 2006

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

    # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
    Identifier     "stylus"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
    Option         "Type" "stylus"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
    Identifier     "eraser"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
    Option         "Type" "eraser"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
    Identifier     "cursor"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
    Option         "Type" "cursor"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "DELL E771p"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 65.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
# Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

# If you are using an older version of compiz that
# does not support rendering into the Composite
# Overlay Window, you will need to disable clipping
# of GLX rendering to the X Root window with this
# option, or you will get a blank screen after
# starting compiz:
#    Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro]"
    Monitor        "DELL E771p"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "UseFBDev" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Ndivia X Server Settings, tab Open GL/GLX information says

The OpenGL extension 'GLX' is not supported by

the X server or there was a problem retrieving GLX information from the X server.

EDIT: I added the nvidia-bug-report.log as well

Hi gosh,

Unfortunately you'll have no luck using Beryl with AIGLX, it needs the latest beta drivers, i.e. a non-legacy card. You may still have luck with XGL... forget about this guide and search the forums for another that caters to Beryl + XGL.

Maybe here (but ignore the section in which to install a new kernel or fix your wireless, and make sure to use the legacy drivers instead): http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268036

Ah, right. This is the first time I ran across this info. Thnx for this. i'll try the other guide

Hi!

when I've followed all paths here and I can't get beryl to work without XGL.

I have nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, with nVIDIA 1.0-9625 drivers..

when I start beryl I get:

**thor27@QUARTO:~$** beryl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0

my xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"
# USB Mouse not detected
# ALPS TouchPad not detected
# Synaptics TouchPad not detected
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
	
EndSection

Section "Files"
#	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
#       Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
#Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "dbe"
#Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
 Load  "glx"
#        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#	Load  "speedo"
#	Load  "type1"
#	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "xtrap"
# TouchPad not detected
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
	Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
	Option "XkbLayout" "br"
	Option "XkbVariant" "abnt2"
EndSection

#MOUSE SERIAL SEM RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Serial Mouse"#bigmouse1
	Driver  "mouse"
	Option  "Protocol"   "Microsoft"
	Option  "Device"   "/dev/ttyS0"
	Option  "Emulate3Buttons"  "true"
	Option  "Emulate3Timeout"  "70"
	Option  "SendCoreEvents"   "true"
EndSection

#MOUSE SERIAL COM RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Serial Mouse2"#bigmouse2
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
	Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option      "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

#MOUSE PS/2 ATÉ 3 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"#bigmouse3
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
	Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection


#MOUSE PS/2 COM 5 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse2"#bigmouse4
	Driver "mouse"
	Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option "Buttons" "7"
	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection 


#MOUSE PS/2 COM 5 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA MODO 2
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse3"#bigmouse5
	Driver "mouse"
	Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
	Option "Buttons" "7"
	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection 

#MOUSE PS/2 COM 5 BOTÕES E DUAS RODINHAS
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse4"#bigmouse6
	Driver "mouse"
	Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 8 9"
	Option "Buttons" "9"
	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection 


#MOUSE USB ATÉ 3 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"#bigmouse7
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

#MOUSE USB 5 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse2"#bigmouse8
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection

#MOUSE USB 5 BOTÕES E UMA RODINHA MODO 2
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse3"#bigmouse9
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
	Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection

#MOUSE USB 5 BOTÕES E DUAS RODINHAS
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse4"#bigmouse0
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 8 9"
	Option "Buttons" "9"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "ALPS TouchPad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "LeftEdge"              "120"
        Option          "RightEdge"             "830"
        Option          "TopEdge"               "120"
        Option          "BottomEdge"            "650"
        Option          "FingerLow"             "14"
        Option          "FingerHigh"            "15"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "180"
        Option          "MaxTapMove"            "110"
        Option          "EmulateMidButtonTime"  "75"
        Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "20"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "20"
        Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.2"
        Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.5"
        Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.01"
        Option          "EdgeMotionMinSpeed"    "15"
        Option          "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"    "15"
        Option          "UpDownScrolling"       "1"
        Option          "CircularScrolling"     "1"
        Option          "CircScrollDelta"       "0.1"
        Option          "CircScrollTrigger"     "2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics TouchPad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "LeftEdge"              "1700"
        Option          "RightEdge"             "5300"
        Option          "TopEdge"               "1700"
        Option          "BottomEdge"            "4200"
        Option          "FingerLow"             "25"
        Option          "FingerHigh"            "30"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "180"
        Option          "MaxTapMove"            "220"
        Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
        Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.06"
        Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.12"
        Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.0010"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
        Option          "Repeater"              "/dev/ps2mouse"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
	Option	"DPMS"	"true"
	VendorName	"GSM"
	ModelName	"GSM42d1"
	HorizSync 30 - 70 # DDC-probed
	VertRefresh 50 - 160 # DDC-probed
EndSection

Section "Device"
	### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
        #Option     "VideoOverlay" "on"
        #Option     "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        #Option     "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
        #Option     "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
	#Option      "RenderAccel" "on"
	Option 	    "TripleBuffer" "true"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "All"
	BoardName   "All"
#BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultColorDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     1
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     4
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     32
		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "AIGLX" "Enable"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

no I tryed with another user and it's working... I've already tried to remove .beryl and .compiz folder but it's still not working... any ideas??

thor27 said: no I tryed with another user and it's working... I've already tried to remove .beryl and .compiz folder but it's still not working... any ideas??

Yes, kill the other window manager, which is running and try again.

tryed that with no success.. even If I don't kill kwin and start, beryl kills kwin but doesn't start...

I am still getting an error when trying to reinstall the nvidia beta drivers from amaraths new repo, any ideas what the problem might be?

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libxorg-sched-yield-hack0 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:
  nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625
E: Broken packages

Karail said: I am still getting an error when trying to reinstall the nvidia beta drivers from amaraths new repo, any ideas what the problem might be?

There was some sort of package update today that breaks the nvidia drivers in Amaranth's repo. Just wait a bit while it gets sorted out.

Hey there:

I had all of this working with the Nvidia official beta drivers. Yet, I noticed that my wireless card requires the linux restricted modules which break the Nvidia beta drivers and messes up the X server...So I uninstalled the Nvidia beta drivers in order to install the other nvidia drivers as stipulated in method 1...but I need to remove the beryl-manager from my startup session since it doesn't work properly now and sends me back to the login window after showing the desktop for soem seconds...Since I can't enter the desktop for long using either of the available session options, is there a way to remove the beryl-manager from startup sequence from the terminal?

I can edit files using gedit from failsafe terminal since my X server is working. As I said, all I need is to get the startup file that has the programs I have there opening on startup to delete the beryl-manager so I can install the drivers...

you can edit your ~/.config/autostart/beryl-manager.desktop X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false or simply delete the file!

Thanks for the Nvidia beta repo. Everything is working fine ! But now, synaptic is proposing me another update of linux-restricted and etc... maybe you could change the version number in the repo so it will automatically ignore this update ?

Thanks in advance

Does the amaranth repo have amd64 packages? I always get the following error when doing an apt-get:

Failed to fetch http://amaranth.selfip.com/dists/edgy/lrm/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404 Not Found

Following the rest of the steps without grabbing anything from that repo doesn't work. It looks like beryl launches for a second, then my X-session becomes unresponsive.

Jason

Well, Beryl freezes a lot when you drag a window to the edge of the desktop + a few other minor glitches. But I haven't been able to completely crash it yet. :)

Hello... everything works great, except from the fade plugin...

Hey all... would like to mention that i won't be availiable on irc anymore to chat due to restrictions in place by uni.

Reducer said: Does the amaranth repo have amd64 packages?

Not as far as i know.

However lupine_85 was maintaining one... i don't know anymore though.

Wow! It works brilliantly! Thanks very much. I like the new "tray icon" of Beryl and the fact that I can switch between OpenGL eye candy and a boring desktop for games without restarting and switching X servers. Thanks!

I managed to get Beryl working with the latest nvidia drivers, however I'm having some problems when opening lots of windows. After about 5 or 6 opened (as in visible and rendered on the desktop, not minimized) all the rest that opens after that shows a black screen.

Just wondering if anyone is also having this problem and whether it is a soft restriction or hard restriction. I've unchecked Sync to VBlank which sometimes causes windows to display a black screen.

Oh and I found a way round this is to minimize other windows before maximizing the window you want to display - but still if there can be a fix for this it would be then be a perfect setup

I've also tried the "enable strict-binding" "Use this to avoid blank windows bug" but there is no difference.

Cheers

nev0 said: After about 5 or 6 opened (as in visible and rendered on the desktop, not minimized) all the rest that opens after that shows a black screen.

Just an update, I found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beryl

Which points to this at the end: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77248&highlight=black+windows

It seems like a graphics card capability limitation when video ram are exhausted and they're working on a fix (or an improvement at least)

nev0 said: I managed to get Beryl working with the latest nvidia drivers, however I'm having some problems when opening lots of windows. After about 5 or 6 opened (as in visible and rendered on the desktop, not minimized) all the rest that opens after that shows a black screen.

Just wondering if anyone is also having this problem and whether it is a soft restriction or hard restriction. I've unchecked Sync to VBlank which sometimes causes windows to display a black screen.

Oh and I found a way round this is to minimize other windows before maximizing the window you want to display - but still if there can be a fix for this it would be then be a perfect setup

I've also tried the "enable strict-binding" "Use this to avoid blank windows bug" but there is no difference.

Cheers

Its an issue in the drivers. It has to do with the amount of video ram that you have.

I think nvidia needs to add in some memory management so that the black screens dont happen and instead the picture is loaded into memory and something else is flushed out.

testube_babies said: There was some sort of package update today that breaks the nvidia drivers in Amaranth's repo. Just wait a bit while it gets sorted out.

has this been resolved yet? I'm stuck in text-only until this gets fixed.

loopjeremyloop said: has this been resolved yet? I'm stuck in text-only until this gets fixed.

There were updates from Amaranth this morning but I haven't rebooted yet, so I'm assuming this is fixed now.

yeah it is fixed - sudo aptitude update / upgrade / dist-upgrade seems to have resolved the issues.

YAY!

(thank you so much amaranth!)

Got it working last night for the first time, with a little help from Amaranth on irc. This is way cool.

I spent a lot of time just playing around with the settings, seeing what each thing did. Are all of them supposed to work at this point, or are some of those controls not implemented yet? I could not tell any difference for many of the settings.

On my computer, when dragging a window to the edge, the cube takes a long time to get spinning, does anyone know the setting for speeding this up? I couldn't find it for the life of me. I think I inadvertently changed the setting already, because the first time I tried dragging to the edge, I don't remember it being so slow. I just can't find that setting again.

Peepsalot said:

On my computer, when dragging a window to the edge, the cube takes a long time to get spinning, does anyone know the setting for speeding this up? I couldn't find it for the life of me. I think I inadvertently changed the setting already, because the first time I tried dragging to the edge, I don't remember it being so slow. I just can't find that setting again.

Have you tried one of the "numeric value" settings in the "Rotate Cube" section? I am not sure but after taking a quick look i think this would be the most likely place for that setting.

i am pretty sure that i did a real stupid mistake. since i updated to edgy and the newest nvidia drivers (i hope i have them!) gdm is not starting anymore and just responding: /etc/X11/X is not executable anyone a idea whats going wrong?

hi. I have 2 users working in its own X-terminals on one computer (hot-seat;) ). While beryl working I switch from 1st to 2nd and back (by "user-switcher" or ctrl-alt-F7/F9) I get black screen with mouse cursor on it. All works (for example F5 makes cursor "thinking"), but I see nothing :(

jmur said: hi. I have 2 users working in its own X-terminals on one computer (hot-seat;) ). While beryl working I switch from 1st to 2nd and back (by "user-switcher" or ctrl-alt-F7/F9) I get black screen with mouse cursor on it. All works (for example F5 makes cursor "thinking"), but I see nothing :(

I something similar happen to me as well. I switched to a console and then tried to come back, but everything was black except for my cursor. As I recall, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did not work though and I had to hit the power switch on my computer. On the next reboot however, I was able to switch between console and x without any problems. :-k

Can i reccomend to everyone that before upgrading any kernel pieces that they check amaranth's repos in synaptic to see if there are updates for his lrm also!

schias said: i am pretty sure that i did a real stupid mistake. since i updated to edgy and the newest nvidia drivers (i hope i have them!) gdm is not starting anymore and just responding: /etc/X11/X is not executable anyone a idea whats going wrong?This sounds pretty bad.

Maybe reinstall your xserver-xorg?

Ok I get no borders (amranth's repos) but beryl is running as I can twist the cube for example. Note that in my corg.conf the default depth colour is 24bits. Here's the output of "beryl-manager" command in a terminal:

turbojugend@TurboPC:~$ beryl-manager
turbojugend@TurboPC:~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Couldn't load settings.  Reverting to defaults.
Couldn't load theme.  Reverting to defaults.
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
Initiating splash
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/beryl, process 5044
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libSM.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libICE.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXext.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXext.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXau.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXau.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlibi18n.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlibi18n.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libdbus.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libdbus.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libsettings.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libsettings.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1220876592 (LWP 5044)]
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libdecoration.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libdecoration.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libsplash.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libsplash.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libwobbly.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libwobbly.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libanimation.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libanimation.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libfade.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libfade.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libcube.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libcube.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/librotate.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/librotate.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libzoom.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libzoom.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libscale.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libscale.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libmove.so...(no debugUndefined command: "-e".  Try "help".
ging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libmove.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libresize.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libresize.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libplace.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libplace.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libswitcher.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libswitcher.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libwater.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libwater.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libtrailfocus.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libtrailfocus.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libneg.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libneg.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libbs.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libbs.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libput.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libput.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libscreenshot.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libscreenshot.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libstate.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libstate.so

(no debugging symbols found)
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) (gdb) 
Thread 1 (Thread -1220876592 (LWP 5044)):
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7dbd6a3 in waitpid () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d65281 in strtold_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb6b5a16d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0xb7d9d37c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6  0xb795f2b9 in _nv000108gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#7  0xb3ada010 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) 
(gdb) 
(gdb) #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7dbd6a3 in waitpid () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d65281 in strtold_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb6b5a16d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0xb7d9d37c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6  0xb795f2b9 in _nv000108gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#7  0xb3ada010 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) Detaching from program: /usr/bin/beryl, process 5044

[CRASH_HANDLER]: "/tmp/beryl_crash-5044.out" created!


** (beryl-manager:4982): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32
Initiating splash

turbojugend@TurboPC:~$ 

I know it's lengthy but I think the important things are towards the end of it. Why on earth is it looking for 32bits! I thnik that's unconcievable in Xorg after all... anyhow plz help me on that so I can get some beryl love!

Thanks in advance.

PriceChild said: Beryl will work on other aiglx/xgl solutions such as on Dapper... however you'll get best performance with this method!

Hi,

I have a P4HT2.8 CPU and a Nvidia GeForce 6600. I have Beryl running but the performance feels not as good as when I tried Dapper+compiz+XGL some time ago . Window maximizing and minimizing feels a little bit sluggish. In general all the scrolling, menu browsing, etc feels slow compared to using plain Metacity or Compiz and XGL. Today I was getting sone Firefox windows compeltely black. Am I missing something? I did all what is said in the how-to.

Thanks!

Hector

hectorUbu said: Hi,

I have a P4HT2.8 CPU and a Nvidia GeForce 6600. I have Beryl running but the performance feels not as good as when I tried Dapper+compiz+XGL some time ago . Window maximizing and minimizing feels a little bit sluggish. In general all the scrolling, menu browsing, etc feels slow compared to using plain Metacity or Compiz and XGL. Today I was getting sone Firefox windows compeltely black. Am I missing something? I did all what is said in the how-to.

Thanks!

Hector

Same results here. I think this is being felt by a lot of people.

turbojugend_gr said: Ok I get no borders (amranth's repos) but beryl is running as I can twist the cube for example. Note that in my corg.conf the default depth colour is 24bits. Here's the output of "beryl-manager" command in a terminal:

(...)

I know it's lengthy but I think the important things are towards the end of it. Why on earth is it looking for 32bits! I thnik that's unconcievable in Xorg after all... anyhow plz help me on that so I can get some beryl love!

Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem on a GeForce 6200. The reason you have no borders is because you didn't add

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

into the "Screen" section of xorg.conf.

schias said: i am pretty sure that i did a real stupid mistake. since i updated to edgy and the newest nvidia drivers (i hope i have them!) gdm is not starting anymore and just responding: /etc/X11/X is not executable anyone a idea whats going wrong?

OK, if you just want to get X running type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This will allow you to select a whole lot of options for your X server. The most important option is the first one - selecting the driver.

First try selecting the "nvidia" driver and leaving all the other options at their defaults. Then type:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

This will restart the X server to reflect the new changes. If this doesn't work, try doing the above with the "nv" driver.

By the way, switch to a text-mode terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1.

Is there a way I can make sure I'm not sure XGL, but rather the built in AIGLX? What packages should I make sure I've got, and which ones should I make sure I don't have? ;)

I had some problems with Planeshift MMORPG, when in full screen mode any quit from PShift would revert to black screen. I tried windowed but got the black window.

I read about turning on strict binding(?) in the beryl/manager/xorg config sorry guys all spaced out, one of these helped run two PS sessions at once, all be it at 20 fps!

I too felt a speed benefit from the last compiz/xgl package.

The current stability issues...

...(yes I know it's alpha/beta/pre-gamma software, but what isn't these days?.... ....man even Debian is beginning to play catch up!).... .....

are ok for me but I don't mind TrYiNg things out because I like the bleeding edge.

It will be a massive boost to desktop linux everywhere...once it is a full release.

Thankyou all who provide free source software.

Diesel1.

~LoKe said: Is there a way I can make sure I'm not sure XGL, but rather the built in AIGLX? What packages should I make sure I've got, and which ones should I make sure I don't have? ;)

Go to System > Administration > System Monitor and click on the Processes tab. If you see a process called Xgl (click in the list of processes and type "xgl" to find it fast), you're most likely running Xgl. If you don't see any Xgls, you're probably running AIGLX.

diesel1 said: I had some problems with Planeshift MMORPG, when in full screen mode any quit from PShift would revert to black screen. I tried windowed but got the black window.

Does temporarily switching to Metacity via the Beryl-Manager tray icon help fix the problem?

Looks like it's all AIGLX. Thanks. ;)

Remove the xserver-xgl package to get rid of xgl. However i reccomend that you follow whatever guide you initally used backwards to get rid of everything completely.

I would recocmend that you switch back to metacity before running any fullscreen apps.

Not only will you see improved performance but i'm sure you'll also lose that black screen bug.

If you do have the black screen, try a ctrl+alt+f1 to get to tty1, then a ``` sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Karail said: Have you tried one of the "numeric value" settings in the "Rotate Cube" section? I am not sure but after taking a quick look i think this would be the most likely place for that setting.

Yeah, it was the "Rotate Cube"->"Numeric Values"->"Flip Time" setting that I was looking for. I think I missed it before and was only changing the speed, acceleration and timestep variables.

Before I installed Beryl, I used "Keyboard Shortcuts"(Gnome panel System->Preferences) to set F12(no modifiers) to open a new terminal. After Beryl was installed, it seems this was overridden because it no longer works. I checked and checked, but I don't see anywhere in Beryl Settings that uses F12 without a modifier. And I can't see any visual changes when I press it. Anyone have any ideas?

Yeah, I think beryl grabs every key it can whether it uses it or not. You have to configure that F12 shortcut in beryl now. In the General settings you want the Commands and Keyboard tabs.

hello, i failed to connect http://amaranth.selfip.com anyone got the same problem?

Yeah, it looks like my host died....

Amaranth said: Yeah, I think beryl grabs every key it can whether it uses it or not. You have to configure that F12 shortcut in beryl now. In the General settings you want the Commands and Keyboard tabs.

That did the trick, thanks. The strange thing is, I had F11 bound to open my home folder, and that one stills works after the Beryl install.

mephistophilis said: hello, i failed to connect http://amaranth.selfip.com

anyone got the same problem? Same problem here. No updates for lrm. :(

I just wanted to let everyone who's having the problem of no window decorations know how I fixed it. I've been having the problem for days and no matter what I did, I couldn't get window decorations. I put options in my xorg.conf, I tried changing emerald themes. Nothing did it.

What worked for me was to move all the .beryl and .emerald directories in a backup folder (just in case - I named mine beryl-backup), then restart X. It work. (EX: "mkdir beryl-backup" and "sudo cp .beryl* .emerald beryl-backup"

Something in my configs must have corrupted things.

Jeremy23 said: I had the same problem on a GeForce 6200. The reason you have no borders is because you didn't add

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

into the "Screen" section of xorg.conf.

Oops, you are late. Amaranth got ya in the irc. Thanks a lot m8, this could be usefull to quite some users.

Jeremy23 said: I had the same problem on a GeForce 6200. The reason you have no borders is because you didn't add

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

There's not much to read and will save everyone else 5 minutes :)

Great to see it working for more people :)

Pricey

Ok, I followed the howto and everything works.

But when I click on System->Quit or on the quit icon (open door with red arrow) on the right edge of my top panel in order to log out, shut down or reboot, Beryl freezes immediately. If I switch to metacity before opening the log out window, it works fine.

Edgy Eft with latest NVIDIA beta and beryl-manager

Simon Parzer said: Ok, I followed the howto and everything works.

But when I click on System->Quit or on the quit icon (open door with red arrow) on the right edge of my top panel in order to log out, shut down or reboot, Beryl freezes immediately. If I switch to metacity before opening the log out window, it works fine.

Edgy Eft with latest NVIDIA beta and beryl-managerIn the changelog of the first post there's a mention of a fix for the logout bug: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1539553&postcount=71

WIll make it more prominant

Are there any amd64 nvidia beta repo? I really hate having to run the nvidia installed everyday.

lupine_85 did maintain one when we started.

I've no-longer got IRC to contact him but will try a pm on the forums for you to ask the status of it.

I found the source of the bug I was having

If I remove the desktop icons in KDE and RESTART kde, beryl stops woring, but only when you RESTART, and if you make the desktops icons visible again beryl will only work after I RESTART KDE again...

I will post later how to reproduce the error.... I need to restart X to make english language default...

PriceChild said: Could everyone PLEASE read the initial howto and check every step before posting with problems! I'm doing my best to keep it updated as this thread progresses.

There's not much to read and will save everyone else 5 minutes :)

Great to see it working for more people :)

Pricey

I have the Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" set to "True", but I still have no window borders! Everything else seems to work, I can for example scroll with the mouse on the desktop to rotate it. Just no window borders when selecting beryl as the window manager. nVidia graphics card, followed the instructions by the book... ](*,)

djst said: I have the Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" set to "True", but I still have no window borders! Everything else seems to work, I can for example scroll with the mouse on the desktop to rotate it. Just no window borders when selecting beryl as the window manager. nVidia graphics card, followed the instructions by the book... ](*,)

Nevermind, it was the default color depth that was set to 16 bit. I wonder why! But thanks, now everything works! :)

thor27 said: I found the source of the bug I was having

If I remove the desktop icons in KDE and RESTART kde, beryl stops woring, but only when you RESTART, and if you make the desktops icons visible again beryl will only work after I RESTART KDE again...

I will post later how to reproduce the error.... I need to restart X to make english language default...

Run your kde desktop with beryl enabled. 1- Right click on the background 2- Configure Desktop 3- Behavior 4- Uncheck "Show Icons on desktop"

Everything should be working pretty fine with beryl enabled...

5-Restart X

Beryl will not start

6- Right click on the background 7- Configure Desktop 8- Behavior 9- Check "Show Icons on desktop" 10- Try to start beryl, and it will not work 11- Restart X 12- Start Beryl

and it's working fine again...

A better place to report this would be forum.beryl-project.org or their bug tracker.

After today's updates i'm experiencing white screen after login.

I've temporarily solved things by removing beryl-manager.

Gonna try and figure out what's happenning....

Peepsalot said: I something similar happen to me as well. I switched to a console and then tried to come back, but everything was black except for my cursor. As I recall, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did not work though and I had to hit the power switch on my computer. On the next reboot however, I was able to switch between console and x without any problems. :-k

I find that if I get another X login using the "USERS" menu, that I can never switch back to the original login without getting a blank screen and all keystrokes stolen, so I can't get a text console either. (gdm restart on an SSH session recover it though).

Otherwise I can switch between different X sessions without a problem.

Without beryl/aiglx when I get a new session from the "USERS" menu, if I switch back, I find screen-lock has activated and I have to supply my password again.

Maybe this is what is not coping with beryl-stuff.

PriceChild said: After today's updates i'm experiencing white screen after login.

I've temporarily solved things by removing beryl-manager.

Gonna try and figure out what's happenning....

Hi

I've got the same thing.

so , i've compiled nvidia driver and now all work fine.

Fred

FredWst said: Hi

I've got the same thing.

so , i've compiled nvidia driver and now all work fine.

FredI'll just try reinstalling mine then...

Confirmed, all works now.

FredWst said: Hi

I've got the same thing.

so , i've compiled nvidia driver and now all work fine.

Fred

YEZZ!!

that fixed it for me 2 !

thx alot for your hint!

:mrgreen:wobble:mrgreen:wobble:mrgreen:

samjam said: I find that if I get another X login using the "USERS" menu, that I can never switch back to the original login without getting a blank screen and all keystrokes stolen, so I can't get a text console either. (gdm restart on an SSH session recover it though).

Otherwise I can switch between different X sessions without a problem.

Without beryl/aiglx when I get a new session from the "USERS" menu, if I switch back, I find screen-lock has activated and I have to supply my password again.

Maybe this is what is not coping with beryl-stuff.

I also found that

chvt 1

from an ssh will give me a text console, but when I switch back to X, it's still a blank screen with all keystrokes stolen.

I also found, that after I switch back to X for the first time (from login another user) and I assume an X-lock screen and enter my password, that "it works" with no paiting, i.e. I can move the mouse around and watch the cursor change to resize-mode at (naturally black and invisible) window boundaries.

As soon as I click something though, it all locks up, before that I can use alt-ctrl-f1 to switch to a text console but switching back still shows a blank screen.

When I gdm restart or do nasty kills, .beryl-manage.lock is not deleted though. It took me a while to find this problem and learn to kill the file by hand. Surely this file is bad news, what about nfs-home directories? A user may have 2 xsessions on different machines, this lock file should not be in the homedir.

Sam

Often (mostly) when I run beryl-manager I get this output - it restarts itself and works after that, but I report it here for want of anywhere better.

Sam

sam@rattle:~$ beryl-manager 
sam@rattle:~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Couldn't load settings.  Reverting to defaults.
Engine settings loaded

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: help

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: menu

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: shade

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unshade

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: above

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unabove

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: sticky

** (emerald:25296): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unsticky
Initiating splash
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/beryl, process 25302
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libSM.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libICE.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXext.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXext.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXau.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXau.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlibi18n.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlibi18n.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libdbus.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libdbus.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libsettings.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libsettings.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1
ReaUndefined command: "-e".  Try "help".
ding symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1221278000 (LWP 25302)]
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libdecoration.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libdecoration.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libsplash.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libsplash.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libwobbly.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libwobbly.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libanimation.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libanimation.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libfade.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libfade.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libcube.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libcube.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/librotate.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/librotate.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libzoom.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libzoom.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libscale.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libscale.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libmove.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libmove.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libresize.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libresize.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libplace.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libplace.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libswitcher.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libswitcher.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libwater.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libwater.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libtrailfocus.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libtrailfocus.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libneg.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libneg.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libbs.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libbs.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libput.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libput.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libscreenshot.so...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libscreenshot.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/beryl/libstate.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/beryl/libstate.so

(no debugging symbols found)
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) (gdb) 
Thread 1 (Thread -1221278000 (LWP 25302)):
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7d5b6a3 in waitpid () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d03281 in strtold_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb72cb16d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0xb7d3b37c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6  0xb78fd2b9 in _nv000108gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#7  0xb3bfa010 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) 
(gdb) 
(gdb) #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7d5b6a3 in waitpid () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7d03281 in strtold_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb72cb16d in crash_handler () from /usr/lib/beryl/libcrashhandler.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0xb7d3b37c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6  0xb78fd2b9 in _nv000108gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
#7  0xb3bfa010 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) Detaching from program: /usr/bin/beryl, process 25302

[CRASH_HANDLER]: "/tmp/beryl_crash-25302.out" created!


** (beryl-manager:25235): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Initiating splash

samjam said: Often (mostly) when I run beryl-manager I get this output - it restarts itself and works after that,

Yeah as far as i know this is a temporary workaround by the beryl guys to get beryl to start on first login.

I'm pretty sure this is what they know about and that it'll be fixed soon.

I had the same problem. My solution iss not too smart, but it works. The problem is that when you try to logout it seems that gnome freezes, but it does not. The logout screen doesn't appear, but it's there!! So you just have to find the right place on the screen to click!

I did the following. I made a photo of my logout screen without beryl (unfortunately snapshot is not avaible if you try to snapshot the logout screen), so I made it using a normal camera.

I set this picture as my backround... Then I click logout. The pseudo-freeze effect comes, but now I know where to click. :)So it will appear as if the logout screen was there.

Here is a picture I'm using on my laptop for 1024x768.

Here is a picture for a workstation machine (without hybernate) for 1024x768. And everything works fine... Sorry for the Hungarian titles, the icons are the same, I guess. :)

He he... ingenious :P

btw i would like to remind that if you do get stuck in the limbo... you can always press Esc to get back to normal :)

I need to understand one thing: Yesterday updates included a new revision of kernel (-31), BUT it is still a 2.6.17-10 kernel. No revision of l-r-m was released. Is it safe to upgrade it or will it screw up my system? (oh, as you probably guessed, i'm using amaranth way to use nvidia beta driver)

what a wonderful window manager!! i've already made it default. performance is great!

thanks for posting these instructions. at first i didn't think i'd bother as i was under the impression that the intel i9xx video was not performant enough. for intel, these instructions worked well (skipped steps 2 and 4)

captive said: I need to understand one thing:

Yesterday updates included a new revision of kernel (-31), BUT it is still a 2.6.17-10 kernel. No revision of l-r-m was released. Is it safe to upgrade it or will it screw up my system? (oh, as you probably guessed, i'm using amaranth way to use nvidia beta driver)I'm not up to speed on this issue yet... if you pm Amaranth or ask him on #ubuntu-gxl on irc.freenode.net i'm sure he'll be able to help.

That's the quickest way to get his attention.

beryl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by beryl)

Anyone knows how can I fix that? (using Ubuntu Dapper 64bit, Nvidia and Xgl)

Is there currently(or future plans for) any option to enable FSAA in beryl?

FedeXX said:

beryl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by beryl)

Anyone knows how can I fix that? (using Ubuntu Dapper 64bit, Nvidia and Xgl)


Ok solved by installing some edgy packages... Now, beryl starts, but not emerald:

(emerald:6234): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Couldn't load settings. Reverting to defaults.

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: help

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: menu

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: shade

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unshade

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: above

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unabove

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: sticky

(emerald:6234): WARNING : Cannot open pixmap: unsticky emerald: symbol lookup error: emerald: undefined symbol: wnck_window_has_name

I forgot something? :mrgreen:

PriceChild said: I'm not up to speed on this issue yet... if you pm Amaranth or ask him on #ubuntu-gxl on irc.freenode.net i'm sure he'll be able to help.

I'm brave & lazy.. I tryed it and it just works.. So it should be for any kernel minor update that does NOT involve l-r-m (i.e.: no changes in minor version, i suppose)

captive said: I'm brave & lazy.. I tryed it and it just works.. So it should be for any kernel minor update that does NOT involve l-r-m (i.e.: no changes in minor version, i suppose)

I update && upgrade through out the entire day. If any problems were to occur, you'd probably see a post here by me. ;)

FedeXX said: Ok solved by installing some edgy packages... Now, beryl starts, but not emerald:

(emerald:6234): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Couldn't load settings.  Reverting to defaults.

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: help

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: menu

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: shade

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unshade

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: above

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unabove

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: sticky

** (emerald:6234): WARNING **: Cannot open pixmap: unsticky
emerald: symbol lookup error: emerald: undefined symbol: wnck_window_has_name

I forgot something? :mrgreen:

Solved again by myself by upgrading libwnck!

I'm my hero today :mrgreen:

I'm a noob in Linux, so please excuse any stupid questions that I ask.

I installed some updates today, and now beryl doesn't work with the nVidia drivers. When turn beryl on, all that appears is a white screen. If I switch to Metacity it works. Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

I just updated and have the same problem, white screen once beryl starts. It was working before and now just a white screen.

Chiazilla said: I'm a noob in Linux, so please excuse any stupid questions that I ask.

[CENTER][LEFT] I installed some updates today, and now beryl doesn't work with the nVidia drivers. When turn beryl on, all that appears is a white screen. If I switch to Metacity it works. Does anyone know the solution to this problem? [/LEFT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Red]Beryl & Edgy are NOT beginner subjects![/COLOR][/SIZE] [LEFT]Please could you ensure that you have followed all instructions to the letter... ESPECIALLY xorg.conf changes. Reinstall nvidia drivers also then come back for help. [/LEFT] [/CENTER]

After a few tries, reinstalling the drivers worked :) odd it took a few tries (especially without restarting)

$ beryl-manager beryl-manager: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by beryl-manager)

Cannot get glibc-2.4 anywhere... Anyone can help ?

Sathiel said: $ beryl-manager

beryl-manager: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by beryl-manager)

Cannot get glibc-2.4 anywhere... Anyone can help ?

You're using Edgy right? Otherwise you have to download the source package and rebuild it for your distro.

Ok, right i need to remove the drivers from the nvidea site, and replace them with the ones from the repo (option 1), can anyone help me?

sharperguy said: Ok, right i need to remove the drivers from the nvidea site, and replace them with the ones from the repo (option 1), can anyone help me?

Try this with a different version number (9625): http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper#HOW_TO_UNINSTALL_THE_DRIVER_.28FROM_METHOD_2.29

Then just follow method 1 :)

All's well on my desktop (apart from locked screens killing a session), but my laptop starts showing black windows after a few are open, even with strict-bindings enabled.

Totem, the 3rd window crashed while playing: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 126 error_code 11 request_code 140 minor_code 19) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

My video card is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX Go5600] (rev a1)

I'm guessing I've got this till nvidia adjust their driver so its not limited by card memory (or whatever) so I'm reporting it here for completeness.

Sam

For some reason, i find that beryl will often place my windows at the top left edge of the screen, with the title bar out of view, making it difficult to move to a normal spot. This happens sometimes when unmaximizing, and maybe under some other conditions. Does this happen to other people?

Peepsalot said: For some reason, i find that beryl will often place my windows at the top left edge of the screen, with the title bar out of view, making it difficult to move to a normal spot. This happens sometimes when unmaximizing, and maybe under some other conditions. Does this happen to other people?Yeah same here... especially while starting beryl.

Just use alt+drag :)

Pricey

So Beryl+Edgy+nVidia+AIGlx is no beginners topic! ;)

I too had the white screen mish/mash after updating Edgy, also wasn't sure what step to take first. I read the big red letters and went back to the first page.

I needed to change one repo and do the update/upgrade.

The hardest part was getting this thread and access to sudo in the same environment, good old Zaurus with web access helped out again, and it's linux!

Anyhow thanks for the howto.

Also this upgrade seems to have enhanced Beryl/nVidia/AIGlx's speed.

Diesel1.

It looks like the generic linux kernel with SMP support is replaced during the install/config of Beryl. Is there a way to enable SMP support in the replacement kernel?

Thanks.

I'm gonna take a break from beryl for a while. Crashing my computer every time I Ctrl-Alt-F1 is not good.

It was fun while it lasted. Can't wait for it to become more stable.

Peepsalot said: I'm gonna take a break from beryl for a while. Crashing my computer every time I Ctrl-Alt-F1 is not good.

It was fun while it lasted. Can't wait for it to become more stable.Simply turn off beryl from the notification area before switching and all is fine!

ok, im on the oss nv dirvers now *sigh*

Running xorg with the binary drivers causes it not to load :'(

sharperguy said: ok, im on the oss nv dirvers now *sigh*

Running xorg with the binary drivers causes it not to load :'(I think you should try again, following the guide EXTREMELY carefully.

I've only heard of one other person with this problem that wasn't fixed with this method.... and that was just wierd.

Edit: These drivers may be unstable and still beta!

Discussions about the drivers:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78233 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78188 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78231

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mjg5MQ

The official nvdida drivers 1.0-9626 are released!

It's only a small version bump so I don't think much is changed since the beta. But it's OFFICIAL!! ;)

32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9626.html Direct link to drivers: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9626/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run

64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-9626.html Direct link to drivers: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-9626/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9626-pkg2.run

pebe said: The official nvdida drivers 1.0-9626 are released!

It's only a small version bump so I don't think much is changed since the beta. But it's OFFICIAL!! ;)

32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9626.html Direct link to drivers: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9626/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run

64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-9626.html Direct link to drivers: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-9626/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9626-pkg2.run

32 bit driver wouldn't install with the generic kernel, works with 386.

I unstuck the Beryl and Compiz stickies from the Edgy section:

• Edgy stickies became cluttered
• They are still linked in the README FIRST sticky
• most interested people should be subscribed by now
• they are popular threads with a lot of posts so they will be found easily

Lol, i dont know what there is to be carefull about

I did everything there, but theres not much too be carefull about:

add a repo, apt-get some stuff and run nvidea-xconfig, then it breaks so run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and switch back to nv dirver. :S

Those are quadro plex drivers.... i've got a geforce4 card... as i'm sure most of you do too.

PriceChild: I know it says so on the nvidia page, but I really think the new drivers are the same as the old betas but with added support for the quadro plex and some other bugfixes.

I haven't tested them as I'm about 500km from home so I must admit I don't really know.. :rolleyes:

Have you or anyone else here tested them?

~LoKe had some success, but only with the 386 kernel?

There's a smallish problem that seems to effect very few people, but since i am one of them, i need somebody to check out this patch and possibly Amaranth can add it to his repos.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1024968

i hope this means i can soon have aiglx for myself. Just the thought of it makes me all giddy inside ^.^

It was all fine with 386 kernel, i have a core2 duo. i put the generic kernel and x didnt start complaining about api mismatch nvidia kernel module 1.0-8774 and x module has 1.0-9625.

i reinstall the nvidia driver from nvidia website, it complains about kernel version and stuff but just select ok ok ok ok.

and now it rocks even more +20fps un cedega eve (from 60 to 80-90).

I didn't have time to read all the thread, excuse me.

After I install AIGLX, can I chose what WM to run? Like metacity or Beryl? And is game performance effected? Lastly, advantages of XGL over AIGLX, please?

When I bring up beryl I lose all my window borders and the screen freezes.

The mouse still works but clicking anything has no response.

Can anyone help me out? ________________________________ If I can't be Mr. Root I won't play ...

[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="2"]*Registered Linux User #400396*[/SIZE][/COLOR]

Lord Illidan said: After I install AIGLX, can I chose what WM to run? Like metacity or Beryl?Yes, just use the beryl icon in the notificatino area to choose very easily. And is game performance effected? Lastly, advantages of XGL over AIGLX, please?Yes, but ever so slightly. I still advise you to turn off beryl before starting games. (No need to change xserver or anything)

yea, the driver from nvidea's site worked apparently, but when i tryed to run beryl, x would restart and 3d programs never worked.

The driver from the repo causes x not to start at all

After following this guide whilst using a fresh install of edgy eft beta1, and a /home from my previous dapper install my screen crashes and I can only use my mouse after I run beryl-manager

How can I diagnose the problem

pecanov said: There is a patch not included in the beta drivers from the site as well as in the repositories. Unfortunatelly I don't remember where did I get it from. Anyway, I keep a patched driver installation if you wan't it.

I think it has something to do with i2c moduled, so try disableing them if you don't want to patch the drivers

Hi

I also have a Geforce4 440 Go graphics card in my laptop and I can't get it to work with the Nvidia beta drivers. I am pretty sure that I have done everything correctly (this is the third computer that I have installed beryl on), but when it starts the xserver with the nvidia driver all I get is black screen. I have tried using the extra instructions for 440 Go's on this web page http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper but to no avail.

Please could someone let me know how they have achieved it, I don't mind how quick or dirty the solution (nvidia will almost certainly have this sort of thing sorted out when they release the proper drivers, hopefully soon).

Please help someone, I don't know how long I can last with a flat desktop on my laptop.

:-k

P.s. I also tried commenting out the "load i2c" module bit of xorg.conf, but it made no difference.

Hi,

I'm using 1.0-9625 nvdidia driver with the latests updates in my kubuntu edgy. Every time I try to run beryl, X crashes with a segmentation fault, It worked some days ago.

It was very unstable though, allways was auto falling back to kwin

I have a laptop with a Geforce Go 7400

Any one with the same problem?

Hirs said: Hi,

Any one with the same problem?

yeah, same problem with my GeForce4 card ... maybe have to recompile nvidia driver?

Ok yeah there's been a change somewhere...

I've reinstalled my nvidia from the binary installer and all is now back.

Hopefully Amaranth will get on the case.... don't PM him too much ;)

it has to do with the kernel ver versus what the nvidia driver was built for. That is they differ. Bummer.

Just installed with NVIDIA Quadro Plex Driver 1.0-9626 I don't have a clue about those drivers (and in general), but seems to be running very nicly and with direct rendering. :D

geforce fx 5200 128mb

Ok I tried yesterday to give beryl a try :

I tried Option 1 (Amaranth repos) to install nvidia driver, everything went fine but after rebooting X failed to start saying that nvidia drivers couldn't be loaded : /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko not found.

Any idea ?

Topper_H said: Ok I tried yesterday to give beryl a try :

I tried Option 1 (Amaranth repos) to install nvidia driver, everything went fine but after rebooting X failed to start saying that nvidia drivers couldn't be loaded : /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko not found.

Any idea ? Make sure you have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic from my repo too.

PriceChild said: Ok yeah there's been a change somewhere...

I've reinstalled my nvidia from the binary installer and all is now back.

Hopefully Amaranth will get on the case.... don't PM him too much ;) There have been no updates to edgy's l-r-m since I put out my latest version. Are you saying edgy's 8774 driver is broken too?

Zyphrexi said: it has to do with the kernel ver versus what the nvidia driver was built for. That is they differ. Bummer.

Ah, but they are in sync, they're both ABI version 10.

Amaranth said: Make sure you have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic from my repo too.

Yes I have :-?

Amaranth said: There have been no updates to edgy's l-r-m since I put out my latest version. Are you saying edgy's 8774 driver is broken too?nope... something messed up the binary install.

i just wanted to say this howto worked perfect whith my nvidia 6600gt card.

Thanks!

FerGeCo said: i just wanted to say this howto worked perfect whith my nvidia 6600gt card.

Thanks!glad to hear it :)

Somehow playing with Beryl's settings I managed to make it so my middle mouse button doesn't work. This only occurs when Beryl is actually running, so it's not something else (Metacity makes everything work fine). Additionally, I've tried disabling all of the plugins and the problem still doesn't go away. Anyone know what might be causing this?

It used to work, so there should be a solution. :)

I keep running into a problem when adding the repositories for beryl:

W: GPG error: http://ubuntu.compiz.net edgy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 31A5F97FED8A569E

I've searched a bit, and this thread doesn't even show up for one of the results. I don't really want to search through 52 pages though....

This results immediately after adding the repository to "software properties". I'm originally a gentoo user for the past two years, so I'm familliar with linux, just need some help for this. I'm not too used to repository-like stuff.

wget http://ubuntu.compiz.net/quinn.key.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - 

From the first post on this thread..

Hobbes said:

wget http://ubuntu.compiz.net/quinn.key.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

From the first post on this thread..

This hung on an out-of-the-box install.  However, doing it in two commands instead of one worked.  Thanks.

Anyone update to Edgy RC? I'm using Amaranth's repos, but the new update jsut removed nvidia-glx and it won't install because it depends on nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625?

Yep, edgy has a new l-r-m. Will update when I get back from class.

Ohhhh Amaranth,

please please hurry up;)

honk said: Ohhhh Amaranth,

please please hurry up;)

It's working fine now.

Is there any way you could add amd64 versions as well? Or maybe provide instructions on how to make the packages.

Loke, did you update it normally? I've done apt-get update and still can't do "apt get install nvidia-glx"...

The following packages have unmet dependencies. nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625 E: Broken packages

Stealth said: Loke, did you update it normally? I've done apt-get update and still can't do "apt get install nvidia-glx"...

The following packages have unmet dependencies. nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625 E: Broken packages

I tried a multitude of different things, but eventually it wanted to install the image and headers for the generic kernel (iirc) and another related package. Nvidia-glx came with it.

Same here; I njust did an apt-get update and now it wants to de-install:

  libxorg-sched-yield-hack0 nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev ubuntu-desktop
  x-window-system-core xorg xserver-xgl xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
  xserver-xorg-driver-all xserver-xorg-driver-apm xserver-xorg-driver-ark
  xserver-xorg-driver-ati xserver-xorg-driver-chips xserver-xorg-driver-cirrus
  xserver-xorg-driver-cyrix xserver-xorg-driver-dummy
  xserver-xorg-driver-fbdev xserver-xorg-driver-glint xserver-xorg-driver-i128
  xserver-xorg-driver-i740 xserver-xorg-driver-i810 xserver-xorg-driver-imstt
  xserver-xorg-driver-mga xserver-xorg-driver-newport xserver-xorg-driver-nsc
  xserver-xorg-driver-nv xserver-xorg-driver-rendition xserver-xorg-driver-s3
  xserver-xorg-driver-s3virge xserver-xorg-driver-savage
  xserver-xorg-driver-sis xserver-xorg-driver-sisusb xserver-xorg-driver-tdfx
  xserver-xorg-driver-tga xserver-xorg-driver-trident
  xserver-xorg-driver-tseng xserver-xorg-driver-v4l xserver-xorg-driver-vesa
  xserver-xorg-driver-vga xserver-xorg-driver-via xserver-xorg-driver-vmware
  xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-elographics
  xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom

because of:

nvidia-glx depends on nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625 nvidia-kernel-1.0.9625 does not appear to be available nvidia-glx suggests nvidia-kernel-source (>= 1.0.9625)

I deleted /var/cache/apt/* and tried again, and it all worked....

Hmm..

Sam

Ok, I also did an apt-get clean but it wants me to install the 386 kernel? Should I do that and get rid of the generic?

<EDIT> Nevermind, had to dist-upgrade, updated the restricted kernels, now I can install fine!

dunno, but what I normally do in such circumstances is look at the list of what it wants to install, cut'n'paste it into an apt-get install stsatement with my own tweaks and go with that, and see if it changes it's mind, it often does.

So ask it to install the kernel you want, and it might upgrade it and stop asking about generic; but I don't think generic conflicts with 386.

Sam

Hi all, just followed the amaranth Nvidia repo section and everything fired up again.

Yet again there seems to be an increase in responsiveness, I don't know what it is!

Diesel1.

OP said "[COLOR=Red][COLOR=Black]As far as i know the following is depreciated... although you may as well try with it on and off to see the difference:"

I think you mean deprecated (not depreciated...I mean, it hasn't lost value ;-) >> [/COLOR][/COLOR][SIZE=-1]In computer software standards and documentation, deprecation is the gradual phasing-out of a software or programming language feature[/SIZE]

Any chance on getting the 9626 drivers in? Though I'm not sure if it'd even make a difference, if I recall they just add support for quadra plex cards (not even sure exactly what that is...)

Leech

Has anyone got problems with the latest version? and found a fix?

Beryl isn't loading properly for me, none of the functions work.

I did this:

I first made sure that all beryl files were upgraded to the latest 0.1.1-0ubuntu1 version. And then I started beryl with the command: > beryl-manager --force-window-manager --force-decorator .

Newest version working fine for me so far.

Got mine working finally. Everything worked, except the window decorations. And then I found this in my .bashrc file.

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Got rid of that and everything works.

Beryl isn't working for me since last night's update. The window border keeps flickering on and off. Anyone else having this problem?

theturtlemoves said: Beryl isn't working for me since last night's update. The window border keeps flickering on and off. Anyone else having this problem?

The same here.

I did a dist-upgrade recently and it ended up removing nvidia-glx, which broke my X.

I reinstalled the nvidia beta drivers and got X running again. When I try out Beryl, I can rotate the cube and get wobbly windows, etc, but my window decorations are not being displayed. Do I have to go through every step all over again, or does someone know if there is just one little thing to change for that?

I cleared my ~/.beryl* and ~/.emerald* before upgrading and all is fine.

Oh and btw there are only xxx6 drivers for quadro... not other nvidias.

Peepsalot said: I did a dist-upgrade recently and it ended up removing nvidia-glx, which broke my X.

I reinstalled the nvidia beta drivers and got X running again. When I try out Beryl, I can rotate the cube and get wobbly windows, etc, but my window decorations are not being displayed. Do I have to go through every step all over again, or does someone know if there is just one little thing to change for that?

Are your windows flickering and moving around a bit, too? I was wondering if it was because of my overclock, but I didn't push it far so it might be what you're talking about.

I have a strange issue, Beryl wont start after starting Beryl manager. But it start's after i switch strict binding either on or of. Sorry for grammar mistakes, i'm a little bit drunk :mrgreen:

Berly broke my Xes

I hope it will be fixed. I want to show my roomie the Linux style :)

~LoKe said: Are your windows flickering and moving around a bit, too? I was wondering if it was because of my overclock, but I didn't push it far so it might be what you're talking about.

heh, no I don't have that particular problem. Sounds like your computer is really messed up. :p

Edit: Turns out I just needed to edit xorg.conf again, since some settings got overwritten. added the:

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

line to the screens section, from step 4 of the HOWTO.

Hi all Can someone please explain why iam stucked with x-windows-system7.0 i realy wanna have 7.1.1 so i can use beryl. i followd the intructions everything went well no errors, i used method2 for installing nvidia drivers, iam new in the "linux-world" so please someone explain to me and iam realy bad at english ;)

MrZorg said: Hi all

Can someone please explain why iam stucked with x-windows-system7.0 i realy wanna have 7.1.1 so i can use beryl. i followd the intructions everything went well no errors, i used method2 for installing nvidia drivers, iam new in the "linux-world" so please someone explain to me and iam realy bad at english ;)

If you're running Edgy, you should naturally have 7.1.

Ok

I have beryl running!!!

Only problem is it is much slower than compiz/xgl were on dapper

Also i seem to get smalish cpu spikes when i do stuff

Is that meant to happen, i though it was down to the GPU to spike

edit: running smooth now i turned detect refresh rate off :)

edit edit: ok its still jumping a wee bit more than XGL :-k

edit edit edit: woohoo! post #666!!!

LOL I was so tired i used the wrong cd then installing Ubuntu last night ;) now i have 7.1.1

Anyone else find that the update to beryl 0.1.1 deleted all their beryl preferences? as I did, and it has been a little annoying to get everything working again the way I wanted, but so far beryl does run more stable than it did before.

beryl 0.1.0 worked fine ... ive recently reinstalled edgy and beryl and now I get no windows borders or title bar :(

Those of you with missing title bars need to go back a re-read the tutorial at the beginning. It has all of the information you need to fix that problem.

I've got this set up and *working*, but it runs slow on my card. The animations, desktop cube, and whatnot seem jumpier than they were with straight Xgl... Is there something I can do about this?

Yes latest beryl deleted all preferences for new versions.

To those with window border problems, re-read my guide and follow the xorg changes to the letter!

And finally to enigma_0Z: read the howto and ensure you have followed it 100% accurately, do updates and upgrades, reboot, in BSM turn off detect refresh rate and select the appropriate value on the numerical values tab.

Thanks, turning off sync to vblank fixed the slowness... but opengl apps aren't running as fast as they should either (~35 when should be 70+ FPS).

Is there something in nvidia-settings that could help?

Worked perfect for me!

Thanks for the guide!

OK, I went through the howto and installed the nvidia beta driver using option 2 from step 2. I already had xgl+beryl installed so I removed xgl (xserver-xgl) as told.

Now I have the beta driver installed and X seems to be working fine with gnome+metacity, but whenever I try to start beryl, the windows just flash and nothing happens. Running beryl-manager in terminal gives this:

$ beryl-manager
$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: No composite extension

The beryl diamond icon is in the tray and I can change the settings etc but beryl itself won't run. Any hints on this?

EDIT: Since I'm using dapper and not edgy, it seems that I have xorg version 7.0.0 instead of 7.1 that's mentioned in the first post. Is it possible to updgrade xorg to 7.1 on dapper?

I have two questions:

1. Sometimes when beryl starts, it hangs up my X badly to the point that ctrl+alt+backspace dosen't work, and forces me to use SysRq to force reboot the system. Is there any workaround this bug?

1. PriceChild, is there any change you'll update your repos with a newer version of beryl? I see there is a version 0.1.1 out

1. There is no fix for this, it's a nvidia bug.

1. It's not his repo, it's the official beryl repo and mirrors. They should all have 0.1.1.

Amaranth said:

1. There is no fix for this, it's a nvidia bug.

1. It's not his repo, it's the official beryl repo and mirrors. They should all have 0.1.1.

Yes, well I was wondering if there was plans on updating the version in this repo to 0.1.1? If not, would it cause any problems if I'd switch repo's and update beryl to the official repo?

Also, could you please give me a link explaining the nvidia bug more in detail so I can avoid doing whatever causes X to freeze :)

KhaaL said: Yes, well I was wondering if there was plans on updating the version in this repo to 0.1.1? If not, would it cause any problems if I'd switch repo's and update beryl to the official repo?

Also, could you please give me a link explaining the nvidia bug more in detail so I can avoid doing whatever causes X to freeze :)

Hi I think that your X crashes (if it is a complete freezing of the screen, is caused by using the repos version of the Nvidia Beta driver. I had this same thing and when I removed the repos version (method 1 from the howto) and reinstalled them using the Nvidia install (method 2 from the howto), everything worked fine.

On another point I am also currently having some issues with beryl. This problem has only appeared since the newer version arrived a few days ago.

When it first loads up the window boarders flicker on and off. The only way to make beryl usable appears to be to start the theme manager (being patient it takes a while to come up) and then change the theme (don't remember exactly which theme it was that I changed to, but it isn't all of them that fix it), that seems to calm things down and make them work normally again. Then I am free to choose any theme I want. Also I have just tried starting the computer with metacity as the window manager and then changing it to beryl once the system is fully up. This doesn't result in the window board problems!

BTW I have checked my xorg as per the howto and it appears to be exactly the same.

Does anyone know what is causing this problem? (and preferrably how to work around / fix it)

Thanks

i was running XGl and then found this guide, did it, and everything works great. but how do i know i'm not running xgl from before. i didin't remove it.

Sorry in the case I should post a question that has already been asked... but this thread is getting too long.

I followed the How-To accurately. When I start beryl-manager, some of the windows get black, some windowborders too, even some menus. Sometimes some work, sometimes they don't. At least half of the windows are black as the night. Seems to happen randomly but turns beryl unuseable to me.

Any suggestions anyone?

Before I forget it: Thanks for the great work u did. Appreciate it!

tronica said: i was running XGl and then found this guide, did it, and everything works great. but how do i know i'm not running xgl from before. i didin't remove it.

Maybe run gnome-system-monitor? :)

Just followed this guide. When I run "beryl-manager" My screen freezes and I see that my windows lose their borders. Any ideas on how to fix?

0.1.1 IS in the repos... i was running it.

I'm now running the latest svn from http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281613 which is updated daily :)

To those with black windows, try enabling "Enable Strict Binding" from the beryl-manager icon in the notification area.

If that doesn't work, please follow my guide again and triple check everything regarding changing the xorg.conf file.

Sorry PriceChild, that was a goof from me (my beryl is at 0.1.1 :))

jarocooke said: Hi I think that your X crashes (if it is a complete freezing of the screen, is caused by using the repos version of the Nvidia Beta driver. I had this same thing and when I removed the repos version (method 1 from the howto) and reinstalled them using the Nvidia install (method 2 from the howto), everything worked fine.

I guess I'll have to do this too in order to get rid of the bug. But won't I have to reinstall the nvidia drivers everytime there is a change to the kernel? Also, won't I miss out having my nvidia drivers auto-update from the repos?

I fixed it...I had nvidia pkgs screwed up

kakulacis said: Maybe run gnome-system-monitor? :)

well system-monitor shows beryl-xgl running. How do i get rid of it and will it screw everything up?

Hello again

Ok, followed the tutorial again, checking all the changes in xorg.conf. "Enable strict binding" is enabled. Hasn't changed anything. Windows over a certain size get black. Menus get randomly black (eg. the beryl-manager pull-down menu gets black 9 of 10 times (in the same session, just clicking on the beryl symbol again an again!))? I really don't know whats the point. Has anyone else similar problems?

Nvidia beta drivers are installed and running (method 1). Did all the changes in xorg.conf.

Maybe I got other options in xorg.conf which don't work with beryl? Could anyone post his working xorg.conf so I can check mine again? Thanks.

gidsouljah, I get the black windows occasionally too... I think it's just a bug right now with either Beryl or the nvidia beta drivers. Whenever I do get them I can usually get the window to display by resizing it.

It's more that way: Rarely the windows get displayed right. Anytime I maximize a window it gets black. It's just windows with a size under app. 100 x 100 that get displayed right. No chance to use it.

Really don't know if it's an nvidia, aiglx or beryl error. Actually I'm wondering if I should try xgl instead og aiglx.

edit: When I start just "beryl" with the "--force-aiglx" option, all the windows are displayed right. But it gets incredible slow (5-10 secs to react on a simple mouseclick). Anyone got a hint for me?

KhaaL said: Sorry PriceChild, that was a goof from me (my beryl is at 0.1.1 :))

I guess I'll have to do this too in order to get rid of the bug. But won't I have to reinstall the nvidia drivers everytime there is a change to the kernel? Also, won't I miss out having my nvidia drivers auto-update from the repos?

Yes you will, but it doesn't take five minutes to do, as Edgy moves closer to final release new kernels are coming out less often and your Xserver can't be taken out by incompatibility with a recently updated Edgy package (you'll just reinstall it and it should work).

Anyone know anything about my problem with the window boarders flickering on and off. As a recap the best way to get round it seems to be to start the computer with metacity and then change to beryl once logged in, changing back to metacity before logging out (hardy an elegant solution).

:-k

nuzzy can you tell me more about solution. What was wrong with nvidia pkgs?

I followed this guide, beryl works, but its slow as hell. Glxgears hardly moves (nvidia drivers from the guide to). My old xgl still loads on boot for some reason i dont know why.

jarocooke said: Yes you will, but it doesn't take five minutes to do, as Edgy moves closer to final release new kernels are coming out less often and your Xserver can't be taken out by incompatibility with a recently updated Edgy package (you'll just reinstall it and it should work).

Anyone know anything about my problem with the window boarders flickering on and off. As a recap the best way to get round it seems to be to start the computer with metacity and then change to beryl once logged in, changing back to metacity before logging out (hardy an elegant solution).

:-k

I get the flickering boarders too, very annoying using 100% cpu. no other real solution either... I usually have to switch to metacity, kill emerald, then switch to beryl.

christooss said: nuzzy can you tell me more about solution. What was wrong with nvidia pkgs?

Sure - I should have written it better. It wasn't the packages per se. I ran through the steps again and for some reason nvidia-glx and linux-restricted-modules weren't installed properly. I installed the nvidia beta driver I got from beerorkids site (I believe). Sorry for the confusion.

nevermind i figured it out. i just un-installed xserver-xgl, and its working.

When i uninstalled xserver-xgl it didnt start anymore, until i installed it back again :(

Anyone else having this problem?

Dots?

This is not a problem with my monitor, because it's happening on both. If I use Metacity, these dots don't appear. I'm going to assume it's because of Beryl, but that may or may not be the case.

Distro: Ubuntu, Edgy Eft Kernel: 2.6.17-10-generic XServer: AIGLX. Beryl Version: 0.11, same problem with self-compiled and "official". Other specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (@1.86), XFX nVidia 7300 GT, 1GB RAM. Dual E1907FP @ 1280x1024 (2560x1024) using TwinView.

EDIT: Dots aren't usually so pronounced, sometimes just a few in the title bar, sometimes there's a lot, it's random.

That looks like a graphics card problem, although it may be the monitor.

Protoss said: That looks like a graphics card problem, although it may be the monitor.

I've got two monitors, both brand new and identical, and it's happening on both. Some say it may be because of my card overheating, but it's only 72* (high, yes, but not incredibly high). I'll just buy a slot fan and see if that helps, then. Doesn't hurt to have one anyways.

jinxen said: I followed this guide, beryl works, but its slow as hell. Glxgears hardly moves (nvidia drivers from the guide to). My old xgl still loads on boot for some reason i dont know why.You need to revert your gdm-custom file or whatever it is to prevent it from starting the xserver-xgl on startup.

Follow whatever guide backwards to undo this.

The reason why it is so slow IS because you are running on xgl

-LoKe..I dont have a clue how this stuff works and could be totally wrong but dont you need to get the specific kernal for your architecture first as apose to the "generic" one??

When i first installed edgy last week or so i had the same 2.6.17-10 generic kernal after id done the 100s of updates but before i could even use the beryl stuff i had to get the right kernal....i.e linux 386. Is`nt that right:confused:

If im wrong someone will soon correct me as i just stumble along never really having too much of a clue just what im actually doing:mrgreen:

It`s all working fine here though

I'm pretty certain it's just a heat problem; I've been using the generic kernel ever since it's been available, but this is a new computer so that's the only difference.

Nope... you should DEFINATELY be using the generic kernel.

If you've got a 386 installed... there's something a bit wrong me thinks.

I am trying to do this on Kubuntu edgy RC, fresh install. I have successfully followed this how-to in the past for gnome DE.

Anyway I get stuck in the very first stages while trying to fetch libxorg-sched-yield-hack0 package (nvidia-glx amaranth version is fetched ok). I get E:couldn't find package libxorg-sched-yield-hack0... very weird,why can't find it? am I the only getting this...? Thanks for potential help. TJ.

I've heard you don't need it anyways.

Did Beryl just stop working for anyone else?

~LoKe said: Did Beryl just stop working for anyone else?

Yeah. After a recent update it's been kind of quirky. I now have to start it manually in order to get it to work.

Pricey if you reckon im in the wrong then im sure your probably right:D I tried to do all the beryl install just with the "generic" kernal but it never worked.. So reading your how to again...many times ..the very first part says " to install the ubunto meta package specific to your machine etc etc.

Being as the example was was "686" etc i thought "well, i must be 386......:confused:

As i said,i just stumble along mate BUT .........it all works:-k I tried it with the "generic" a few times but never once got any luck with it

Mabey i`ll start again now:twisted:

I just upgraded to edgy and now X refuses to start with the new generic kernel. Error message says something about the nvidia kernel module not being loaded. It works with the older k7 kernel. What did I do wrong? :-#

And oh, does beryl work with the official nvidia driver, or does it absolutely positively have to be beta?

edit: It seems that I have to reinstall the drivers because of the kernel change. Can I do that with apt-get or do I have to use the nvidia script, thus update the drivers manually every time the kernel changes?

To replay to some of the last posts, the reason it's gone to -generic and -386 kernels, is due to the kernel now being able to auto-detect your CPU and use the optimizations from that. Pretty clever, eh?

Now as far as needing the beta drivers of nvidia, yes, you need at least version 9625 (apparently there is now a 9626 and a 9640 (which has been said on the nvnews.net forums that is actually older than the 9625, but it is the driver that comes with the nvperf suite of development software for Linux.)

Leech

Thanks for clearing that up mate:confused: ...lol

When i first installed edgy from iso about 2 weeks-ish ago it had about 300 odd updates needing done OR the option of a "dist-upgrade" which was recommended....

So i do that and end up with the "2.6.17-10 generic" ....then another 100 or so updates later i then had a go at beryl:-k

Tried over & over again with the above kernal but never had any luck. So read it all again (and again and again) and came to the conclusion that the very first part .. "Install your *ubuntu-desktop metapackage specific to your DE, e.g. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"

..must have something to do with it. Thats when i went and got the -386 thing,but only as i believed thats what i needed. And beryl along with everything else works ok.

After 7 or 8 months on a pc im afraid i still dont have tooo much of a clue what im really doing but i do get by and i do learn all the more every time i do something wrong .....im learning loads:rolleyes:

SO...have i messed up by getting the -386.Im still none the wiser. -386,686,64bit,generic???????????????????????????](*,) :mrgreen:

EDIT:excuse my ignorance:-k

If you used nvidia.com's script to install the nvidia drivers, and it is working on your 386 kernel and not your generic one, then i advise you switch to the generic kernel, CTRL+ALT+F1, log in, and "sudo sh" the script again.

The 386 kernel is around because some people are having HUGE troubles booting from the generic... but only a few people...

xpod said: "Install your *ubuntu-desktop metapackage specific to your DE, e.g. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"

..must have something to do with it. Thats when i went and got the -386 thing,but only as i believed thats what i needed.I meant if you use gnome "ubuntu-desktop", if you use KDE "kubuntu-desktop" etc.

PriceChild said: If you used nvidia.com's script to install the nvidia drivers, and it is working on your 386 kernel and not your generic one, then i advise you switch to the generic kernel, CTRL+ALT+F1, log in, and "sudo sh" the script again.

The 386 kernel is around because some people are having HUGE troubles booting from the generic... but only a few people...

Thanks dude, I got it working :) One question still remains, is there a way of installing the drivers so that they don't have to be manually reinstalled every time the kernel is updated?

Use Amaranth's repos then... but you'll have to wait for him to update his packages before you upgrade ;)

I meant if you use gnome "ubuntu-desktop", if you use KDE "kubuntu-desktop" etc.

Thats what threw me m8..sorry:redface: I mistakenly thought it meant i needed something else as i obviously already had an ubuntu desktop.....](*,) If id had kde id have looked for "kde" howto as i did with beryl on my dappers kde. Plus it never working when i tried it with the "generic" one 2 or 3 times. I kept going back to that first line of yours and came to the conclusion i needed something specific hence the -386...

Similar to what you yourself said m8.."I dont understand much of what is going on";). Sorry for the confusion.....theres just soooo many ways to do this stuff it seems.....easy to get lost. Especially when you aint got a clue Cheers,Least i got something to do now as its boring when its all "seemingly" working properly.

That is why I've chosen to use the nvidia script method to get Beryl up and running. Amaranth has contributed a lot to this community and I thank him for that, but I just don't like having to rely on one person who I really don't know for the operation of my computer.

testube_babies said: Yeah. After a recent update it's been kind of quirky. I now have to start it manually in order to get it to work.

I'm having a similar problem when Beryl starts. The borders go on some kind of virtual 'Epileptic fit'. I too have to start it via 'terminal'.

Anyone have any answers ?

I'm having a similar problem when Beryl starts. The borders go on some kind of virtual 'Epileptic fit'. I too have to start it via 'terminal'.

Anyone have any answers ?

Close beryl-manager icon panel !

DeemanXu said: I'm having a similar problem when Beryl starts. The borders go on some kind of virtual 'Epileptic fit'. I too have to start it via 'terminal'.

Anyone have any answers ?Yeah i just reinstalled beryl due to repo troubles... had the problem so did removed config files.

Choose metacity window manager. Close beryl-manager

rm -rf ~/.beryl*
rm -rf ~/.emerald*
beryl-manager

But fixed things for me :)

Hi!

Im getting

E: Couldn't find package libxorg-sched-yield-hack0

So can i just omit installing libxorg-sched-yield-hack0?

*moves to General Help*> kalpik said:

E: Couldn't find package libxorg-sched-yield-hack0

So can i just omit installing libxorg-sched-yield-hack0?If you're getting that then it means you haven't added the correct repositories :)

Umm.. Im pretty sure i've added Amarnath's Repo. Cuz i do have the beta driver installed. I skipped that package and everything seems to be working fine right now!

kalpik said: Umm.. Im pretty sure i've added Amarnath's Repo. Cuz i do have the beta driver installed. I skipped that package and everything seems to be working fine right now!I must be out of date and it not be needed anymore then...

Amaranth might come along and clarify some time.

If it ain't broke... don't fix it ;)

The official beryl howto for edgy is here:

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/AiGLX

It really looks way simpler.... I'm going to try it soon and post back the results...

ariel said: The official beryl howto for edgy is here:

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/AiGLX

It really looks way simpler.... I'm going to try it soon and post back the results...This guide includes custom instructions for nvidia users ;)

Check out http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/BerylOnEdgy for the same guide with ati and intel also!

Thanks Pricechild - works a treat.

DeemanXu said: Thanks Pricechild - works a treat.No problem, don't forget to thank Amaranth for help with the guide and for building and hosting packages!

I'm still getting this error from amaranth repo still does not have any beta drivers on it for Nvidia, or am I just searching the wrong thing? E: Couldn't find package libxorg-sched-yield-hack0

About Beryl-on-Gnome-Startup weirdness:

I've just toyed with it a lot, and found out mostly that its the fault of beryl-manager. To have GNOME load into beryl without all the epileptic borders or eventual computer-freezing (due to two instances of emerald being open, pegging the CPU to 100%):

1) System -> Preferences -> Sessions -> "Current Session" tab: remove metacity, push the apply button. 2) "Startup Programs" tab: add "beryl" and "emerald" as two separate entries.

You'll be missing the cool jewel icon in your system tray upon restart, but Beryl and Emerald (only ONE Emerald) will start with gnome, and slightly faster because Gnome won't load Metacity first. The beryl-manager jewel icon also provides a shortcut to beryl-settings, but that same shortcut is in the System menu (along with Emarald settings, as well).

Seems pretty solid for me right now. I just wish I knew how to prevent the CTRL+ALT+F1 bug (switching to a virtual terminal too many times seems to kill the display - when I CTRL+ALT+F7 back to X, the display is black with only the mouse pointer on it. The pointer moves, but no keystrokes seem to work - I must hard-reset the machine to get anything back. I haven't scanned the forums for workarounds on this yet, so if anyone knows anything, let me know).

Now, when I'm starting beryl and emerald seperately, everything works fine, thanks a lot.

But everytime an effect is executed, my cpu load goes up to 80-90 %. Anyone else having this problem or even a solution to this problem? (detect refresh-rate is disabled)

thanks

Halo!

I followed the guide and installed everything without problems, but when I type in terminal

beryl-manager

and choose window manager beryl the border from the windows and all the task bars disappear and I have to press Ctrl-Alt_Backspace in order to log in again.

I noticed that when I run this command it says that xgl is not available and that it searches for nvidia...I can't post exactly the error because it freezes...

I searched a little in the forum but couldn't find similar problems with solutions.

Thanks in advance!

@X3non

You have to deactivate the "Trailfocus" in the Beryl Settings Manager BEFORE adding beryl-manager to the autostart section. Then everything works fine.

But I have a problem as well. I can start beryl under Edgy with a Nvidia FX 5200 card but I can't see any window borders. Could anyone help me with that problem?

What do you mean with before adding beryl-manager to autostart section?

It doesn't seem to work.....

Ok, just go to

"System/Preferences/Beryl Settings Manager"

then

deactivate the "Trail Focus" plugin on the left side of the window. (you have to scroll down a little bit)

And now you should be able to start Beryl with typing "beryl-manager" into your terminal.

Denis

I did this and didn't work so I used xgl instead of aiglx following this guide http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/XGL

Seems to work fine till now.

lol Another Edit:

Other question... I followed the guide @ http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/XGL

It works. But my whole theme is gray like Classic windows look... Can't get back nice grafix windows?

X3n0n said: I did this and didn't work so I used xgl instead of aiglx following this guide http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/XGL

Seems to work fine till now.Could you explain further please.

Sorry for a newbish type question:

On the first page, it notes that Beryl will crash unless a plug-in is removed... how do I go about removing it?

Because, it is freezing my windows, requiring me to restart gnome every so often...

Thanks.

Btw, thanks for doing all this work on the guide. It's great.

bg1256 said: On the first page, it notes that Beryl will crash unless a plug-in is removed... how do I go about removing it?That's no longer a problem.

Sorry, i didn't realise that was still there.

*removes*

Aha, well what would I do to fix crashes the? :-D

Because it is freezing my windows occasionally...

Again thanks, this howto rocks my face off.

This usually happens when you either have the benchmark plugin enabled or use totem.

Well, I'm not using either. For some reason it's been stable today...

But yesterday it crashed 3 time in an hour.

I have problems with generic kernel.

When I choose -386 kernel Xserver boots but when I choose -generic I get X crash notification. Something about Nvidia drivers. I have installed them with the script but script tells me that there are no precompiled something found for this kernel. Is maybe that wrong?

I don't think so but it might be.

Awesome guide! Thanks a ton for putting this out there. Worked like a champ and I couldn't be happier with the sweet eyecandy that Beryl provides. :D

denis_std said: @X3non

But I have a problem as well. I can start beryl under Edgy with a Nvidia FX 5200 card but I can't see any window borders. Could anyone help me with that problem?

I have this exact same problem and I'm running the exact same card. Does anyone know a solution?

Forge42 said: I have this exact same problem and I'm running the exact same card. Does anyone know a solution?Could you please quadruple check your xorg.conf

I've heard of a handful of people in your situation... it is wierd.

PriceChild said: Could you please quadruple check your xorg.conf

I've heard of a handful of people in your situation... it is wierd.

Sure.. what am I quadruple checking for?

I verified that the line:

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

is there. That was copy/pasted.

When I had beryl running under dapper, I had to turn a 3d rendering option on under my nVidia device... I forget the key, but I could find it. Right now, that isn't there.

Other changes I've made that might have a bearing are that I followed the walkthrough for enabling AIGLX in edgy. I did that when this walkthrough didn't work.

*Edit -- here is the other walkthrough I followed to enable AIGLX https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/AIGLXOnEdgy

I should also mention that I double checked the color depth.. it is 24 */edit

You don't need to do any enabling of AIGLX for this guide... the beta nvidia drivers you have installed work with xorg7.1 to fulfill its function.

Could you start beryl-manager from terminal and paste the errors you are presented with,

PriceChild said: You don't need to do any enabling of AIGLX for this guide... the beta nvidia drivers you have installed work with xorg7.1 to fulfill its function.

Could you start beryl-manager from terminal and paste the errors you are presented with,

Yup... here is the return:

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Initiating splash

The beryl splash pops briefly (and "wobbles") and then goes away. The beryl jewel is in my systray, and my main menu's (apps, places, system) are usable. The only error is the lack of window borders. I used the right click options to min/max a window, and the beryl effects were not present.

bump...

I'm dying here!

Forge42 said: Yup... here is the return:

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Initiating splash

The beryl splash pops briefly (and "wobbles") and then goes away. The beryl jewel is in my systray, and my main menu's (apps, places, system) are usable. The only error is the lack of window borders. I used the right click options to min/max a window, and the beryl effects were not present.

I had this problem, too. After I reset Beryl to the default settings, it went away. From there I re-entered my custom settings and all was fine.

testube_babies said: I had this problem, too. After I reset Beryl to the default settings, it went away. From there I re-entered my custom settings and all was fine.

This actually helped. Beryl now seems to run. I have the cube effect, min/max effect, etc. However, I still don't have window borders. I guess there is some problem with emerald somewhere? Any ideas, anyone?

Forge42 said: This actually helped. Beryl now seems to run. I have the cube effect, min/max effect, etc. However, I still don't have window borders. I guess there is some problem with emerald somewhere? Any ideas, anyone?

I have beryl-manager in my session startup, and sometimes it starts up without borders. If I close the beryl-manager tray icon, I get 'em back. Give that a shot.

I can't get my composite extension working at all on Edgy. Anybody know what's up? It says it's enabled in the log. I have a nVidia FX 5200 card.

Following nVIDIA beta driver Option 1, using the repository, I wind up with a 386 kernel that does not have SMP support. If I follow Option 2, getting the drivers from nVIDIA and running their script, can I get a kernel with SMP support and with the nVIDIA beta driver?

For reasons beyond my comprehension, beryl has recently started working.

Sadly, I have no idea what I did that made it work.

The good news, of course, is that it is. Hooray!

After a very frustrating evening yesterday I am now putting two machines back on Dapper. Beryl is a 'must have' for me, and didn't get it to work on either machine...

ive not read the 51 pages, but thought i would respond to the OP. It's not necessary to install the older GCC packages, only build essential is fine. In fact, i'm not sure what even lead to that? Xorg-dev packages are not needed either, although it does prevent several nvidia screen about not having them. Its not necessary to remove restricted modules or the nvidia-kernel-common, either. Adding nv to the blacklist is a good idea though, as youve pointed out. later.

i did everything according to the howto, but when i start beryl, the window borders are flickering... they disappear and reappear constantly. is there a fix for this?

Hi, just installed edgy and beryl ... whn i started beryl this is the output

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Initiating splash beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture

I can see all animations but no window borders ?? the defaultdepth is set to 24 however . pls help

ss0007 said: Hi,

just installed edgy and beryl ... whn i started beryl this is the output

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA Nvidia Present Initiating splash beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32 beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x26000bf to texture

I can see all animations but no window borders ?? the defaultdepth is set to 24 however . pls help

Did you do step 4 of the first post? I was having the same problem, but adding the 'Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"' option fixed it.

ss0007 said: I can see all animations but no window borders ??

the defaultdepth is set to 24 however . pls help

I had the same problem, enabling strict binding in the beryl right click menu in my notification area (sys-tray) fixed it after a reboot.

ya thx for the reply ... beryl works now ...

anatole said: i did everything according to the howto, but when i start beryl, the window borders are flickering... they disappear and reappear constantly. is there a fix for this?

Probably that's an known problem with two emerald's. Just killall emerald, then switch to metacity with beryl manager, after - back to beryl. Should work, at least for one session :D

Okay.. there are 59 pages to this thread.. and I haven't got time to read them all since I have a lot of stuff to do today.. so I'll just ask..

Is there any way to use Beryl (without XGL) with the latest stable nVidia driver, not the beta? Becuase the beta messes up my video/DVD playback so that everything is stretched when watching widescreen and it's really annoying, but the stable one (which I now have installed) doesn't do that.

I tried adding compositing to my xorg.conf with the old driver, but Beryl won't start.. I also tried adding "Option RenderAcel=True" (or something like that) which is written in another guide (for Dapper). I can't copy the console output when I try since running beryl-manager freezes my computer now.

So, does anyone know a way?

Thanks!

I can't load beryl-manager at startup :( And don't get window decor (emerald?)

Is there any solution?

I'm having the same problem with the repository driver--tried the beta driver about two weeks ago & got two black screens for my effort--Beryl will start & everything "locks up" except for the cursor--need to control-alt-backspace out. Is there now a way to install the beta Nvidia driver without the above problem? Also--I would think that everyone should get together on Beryl install & combine all the seperate guides (or link all of them together) to come up with one "mega"Guide?

Kalinda said: Okay.. there are 59 pages to this thread.. and I haven't got time to read them all since I have a lot of stuff to do today.. so I'll just ask..

Is there any way to use Beryl (without XGL) with the latest stable nVidia driver, not the beta? Becuase the beta messes up my video/DVD playback so that everything is stretched when watching widescreen and it's really annoying, but the stable one (which I now have installed) doesn't do that.

I tried adding compositing to my xorg.conf with the old driver, but Beryl won't start.. I also tried adding "Option RenderAcel=True" (or something like that) which is written in another guide (for Dapper). I can't copy the console output when I try since running beryl-manager freezes my computer now.

So, does anyone know a way?

Thanks!

Kalinda said: Okay.. there are 59 pages to this thread.. and I haven't got time to read them all since I have a lot of stuff to do today.. so I'll just ask..You can always search just a thread> Is there any way to use Beryl (without XGL) with the latest stable nVidia driver, not the beta?Nope> Becuase the beta messes up my video/DVD playback so that everything is stretched when watching widescreen and it's really annoying, but the stable one (which I now have installed) doesn't do that.Well then you've modified your xorg.conf a little too much and someone needs to take a look at it ;)

I tried adding compositing to my xorg.conf with the old driver, but Beryl won't start.. I also tried adding "Option RenderAcel=True" (or something like that) which is written in another guide (for Dapper).Yeah you can't use it without xgl with the old drivers> I can't copy the console output when I try since running beryl-manager freezes my computer now.

So, does anyone know a way?

Thanks!You can always use nhup (i think that's the one...) to save it all to a file... or you could ssh in to start it.

autocrosser said: Also--I would think that everyone should get together on Beryl install & combine all the seperate guides (or link all of them together) to come up with one "mega"Guide?There's a link for just that at the top of my guide.

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/BerylOnEdgy has guides for beryl on edgy with ati, nvidia or ATI

Check out my sig to another collection of guides for any environment!

Okay, so I have an interesting commonality. Two computers: one a notebook Medion Akoya LS with Intel 915 chipset, 512MB RAM, Pentium M 1.6GHz, the other an HP Pavilion a1203w with SiS motherboard, 512MB RAM, AMD Sempron 3000+, and a GeForce FX 5200 AGP graphics accellerator added on.

Both have a clean install of Edgy. Both have a new install of Beryl as per the directions listed in this thread (of course using the nVidia based directions for the HP and the intel based directions for the Medion). Both will boot fine with Beryl as the default Window Manager the first four or five times. After that every time a clean boot occurs Beryl does not load completely (shadows are missing, opened windows have flickering borders), plus each computer is extremely sluggish (over a minute for terminal to open with a prompt), and even after using the beryl-manager icon to switch back to Metacity, the system remains sluggish until restarted. Once restarted, re-enabling Beryl through the same utility shows none of the above mentioned issues. Once the system is shut down, on the next boot the cycle begins again.

I noticed this issue occurred after Beryl went from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1 on the Medion, which is why I did a clean install and started over again with no success. I find it interesting the same exact issue occurs with an nVidia card and a completely different motherboard chipset and CPU manufacturer. This does not appear to be hardware related at all, but something in the latest Beryl update that's causing it. I'll be messing with each plugin until I figure it out or until the next update fixes it. If anyone has any ideas I'm open to trying them.

Step 2 says you must have this repo:deb http://amaranth.selfip.com edgy lrm

All day I've been getting: Err http://amaranth.selfip.com edgy/lrm Packages 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://amaranth.selfip.com/dists/edgy/lrm/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Alright, I've got beryl working...but I have one inconvenience. when I boot my computer, x crashes. But here's the catch. I log in on the terminal, then 'startx' and I get into Gnome?!?!(With Beryl working) What's with that! I used option 2 to install my nvidia drivers because option 1 didn't work.

yaddoshi said: I'll be messing with each plugin until I figure it out or until the next update fixes it. If anyone has any ideas I'm open to trying them.I've always found that the trailfocus plugin slows me down...

Its the one that make unfocussed windows slightly transparent.

Really, really impressive. Thanks very much for this.

Got one question. I'm using the human theme within emerald. It uses the pixmap frame engine. Is there any way to change the default opacity for inactive windows? All the other frame engines seem to have this option, but the pixmaps engine doesn't.

Are there any alternative human themes out there?

Edit: Oh---it was focus trailing. Turning it off had the desired effect (for me) of having all the windows 100% opaque by default.

Thanks again for this great stuff! I am amazed how rock solid and stable it is.

Pausanias said: Oh---it was focus trailing. Turning it off had the desired effect (for me) of having all the windows 100% opaque by default.

Thanks again for this great stuff! I am amazed how rock solid and stable it is.Yeah i really REALLY dislike the trailfocus plugin... its got a lot better lately, but all it ever seems to do is eat cpu to make unfocussed windows ever so slightly mroe transparent and opaque...

Glad its worked perfectly for you :)

Can we get a specific answer to the problem listed here?

ticklemonster@ticklemonster:~$ beryl-manager
ticklemonster@ticklemonster:~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: No composite extension

I followed the instructions several times so far, and still get this.

Exactly what does one do to resolve this?

*edit:

aha, sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Extensions"
     Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

now it works, but I have those blinky windows effects I saw once before. I wonder how I fix that? It's like the title bar thingy for any window that I open. Goes away in metacity.

Hmm.. well.. that's a shame.. because I watch a lot of movies. I didn't modify it anymore then you said to in your guide.. but here it is, nonetheless... I'm not using it now, of course.. but this is the backup I made of it. If you like, I could also post screenshots to show you what I mean with the movies... although I'm not sure if that's nessecary. It stretches it.. and everyone's faces took too tall and stretched and ewww... :???:

Anyhow, thanks in advance :)

I have kind of a bizarre problem, and a forum search turned up nothing.

I did a dist-upgrade, and reinstalled beryl. So I removed beryl/emerald all related packages first, installed the new nvidia drivers, reinstalled beryl. Works great. Except the fact that ALL windows when I open them are black.

If I resize them, they sometimes magically become normal. I thought at first it was part of the window dimming feature, but I can't change it with the shift+mousescroll which dims the windows normally.

Anyone?

Following this procedure, using option 1 for the nvidia drivers, broke my wifi connection totally at that point. (Clearly, I didn't proceed to install beryl, since I now have no networking on that computer!)

Any suggestions as to why that would be (WG111T USB dongle, using ndiswrapper, and network-manager to handle everything else)?

Beryl-start doesn't work for me. It just says that it can't be found.

Beryl-manager sorta starts up, but my toolbars disappear and X completely locks up. Any suggestions?

Hi whoosh, I had same problem but discovered just typing beryl works.

Awesome, that works, but...

The thing is, it still freezes when I type beryl. The panelbars go away too...

Except the fact that ALL windows when I open them are black. If I resize them, they sometimes magically become normal.

I have the same problem. You made me laugh with the word "magically", because that does describe it very well.

I'm running beryl with the new nvdia drivers as well.

whoosh said: Awesome, that works, but...

The thing is, it still freezes when I type beryl. The panelbars go away too...

I had a very similar problem and I've discovered there is a "magic" sequence to go through. Perhaps it will help:

1. open terminal
2. launch beryl with command "beryl"
3. Splash screen should pop, window borders disappear
4. Close the terminal window (I use a right click on the window icon on the taskbar and pick 'close')
5. Splash screens should pop again, window borders remain gone
6. Launch another terminal
7. Launch 'beryl-manager'
8. If your problem is like mine, your window border will appear and the beryl manager icon will appear in the tray.

Note: just launching beryl manager w/o first going through steps 1-6 will lock the machine. I have no idea what is happening, but at least there seems to be a repeatable way of getting it working.

Ok I am having performance problems I just did a clean install of Edgy on my cousins computer then the first thing I did was follow this guide to a T and it works but barely gets 20-25 fps.

His setup is a amd32 processor + nvidia 64mb videocard I know that 20fps is bad because on my Laptop which is a AMD64+Ati(64mb ram) aiglx+beryl using the open source radeon driver gets roughly 130fps.

I have heard the best hardware combination is 32bit processor + nvidia video card. And the worst hardware setup to use with beryl is 64bit+ATI. So why are the results saying different.

Are there any xorg tweaks to get his running at atleast 60fps

PriceChild said: I've always found that the trailfocus plugin slows me down...

Its the one that make unfocussed windows slightly transparent.

I already disabled trailfocus on both the nvidia and intel915 computers - doesn't seem to make much difference. I noticed today that my system wouldn't sign in - sat at the tan screen right after login until I hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get back to login and signed in again. After that everything was happy - so it seems to be session related in addition to possibly being plugin related. Or something.

Also just noticed that on the i915 water no longer works. Bleargh. :-k

Haven't had much opportunity to try messing with plugins yet, what with Halloween parties and whatnot. Maybe today I'll get a chance.

hi! i followed this tutorial but i have the same problem that others guys, when x starts i get a black screen and i can't change to any console. I tried to remove de eeprom module but i don't have any eeprom module in my /etc/modules file, the only eeprom.ko that i found doing $ locate eeprom.ko was in /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.ko and i changed the name but the problem still exist... so i have to enter in safe mdoe and change my xorg.conf file and not use the nvidia driver. please help me! i really love Ubuntu it's the best OS i ever use!... well thanks a lot... Sorry for my english... Axel from Argentina...

Forge42 said:

1. open terminal
2. launch beryl with command "beryl"
3. Splash screen should pop, window borders disappear
4. Close the terminal window (I use a right click on the window icon on the taskbar and pick 'close')
5. Splash screens should pop again, window borders remain gone
6. Launch another terminal
7. Launch 'beryl-manager'
8. If your problem is like mine, your window border will appear and the beryl manager icon will appear in the tray.

Here a is GUI alternative. Create a Launcher, and put the following in the "command line" property:

bash -c "(beryl & ) && sleep 5 && (beryl-manager &)"

This should launch it with just a click. You can even find a beryl icon for your launcher in /usr/share/pixmaps.

Pausanias said: Here a is GUI alternative. Create a Launcher, and put the following in the "command line" property:

bash -c "(beryl & ) && sleep 5 && (beryl-manager &)"

This should launch it with just a click. You can even find a beryl icon for your launcher in /usr/share/pixmaps.

Excellent! Now how about the blinking window borders I keep seeing? Any way to rid myself of this? I'm really trying to get edgy right so I can migrate me stuff, you know.

Well, I was getting the blinking borders, and the launcher fixed it for me. However, if you were getting the blinking borders, you should reboot before you use the launcher for the first time.

Thanks, but I've rebooted several times since then, and it still does it. :(

Forge42 said: I had a very similar problem and I've discovered there is a "magic" sequence to go through. Perhaps it will help:

1. open terminal
2. launch beryl with command "beryl"
3. Splash screen should pop, window borders disappear
4. Close the terminal window (I use a right click on the window icon on the taskbar and pick 'close')
5. Splash screens should pop again, window borders remain gone
6. Launch another terminal
7. Launch 'beryl-manager'
8. If your problem is like mine, your window border will appear and the beryl manager icon will appear in the tray.

Note: just launching beryl manager w/o first going through steps 1-6 will lock the machine. I have no idea what is happening, but at least there seems to be a repeatable way of getting it working.

When I try this, step 2 freezes and it says nvidia is present, but xgl isn't...

drummer4lifex said: When I try this, step 2 freezes and it says nvidia is present, but xgl isn't...

Mine kinda does too. Does the whole machine freeze or just the terminal session? Can you close the terminal session w/ right clicking like I talk about?