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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Beryl fried Xorg! It's fixed now, and I want to try again.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ber … ling_Beryl

Those are the instructions I followed in my first attempt (in Arch) to install Beryl.  I ended up with a dead Xorg.  Commenting out the things I added to the config file and uninstalling the Beryl packages didn't fix it.  I even tried switching back to the open source "nv" driver.  Nothing worked.  I ended up having to redo my system.  I'd appreciate it if someone could post more specific instructions, and tell me exactly what to add to the config file.

I'm using the official nVidia driver with my Geforce 5500 FX (256 MB VRAM).  This is the one in the repositories, and I didn't have the unstable one uncommented at the time I installed it.  So, this is probably not the latest beta of the driver.  If I need to (this particular driver has worked fine with Beryl in other distros I've used), how do I install it without messing everything up again?

Here's my current Xorg.conf -

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
# "NVidia" start
    Load  "glx"
# "NVidia" end
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize      340   270    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "GVT"
    ModelName    "L7EH"
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"             # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                # <i>
# "NVidia" start
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option      "NoLogo" "true"
    Option      "AGPFastWrite" "true"
    Option      "EnablePageFlip" "true"
# "NVidia" end
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes      "1024x768" "1600x1200" "1280x800" "800x600" 
"640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

# "NVidia" start
Section "DRI"
    Mode      0666
EndSection
# "NVidia" end