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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Beryl Problem

Arch 64
nVidia GeForce 7600 GT

I'm having a problem with Beryl.  When I start beryl-manager, the diamond appears next to the clock; but nothing happens.  When I right click and go to Select Window Manager, Beryl is an option; but I can't select it.  It's stuck on Metacity.  Opening beryl-manager through the terminal gives a little more detail to the error.  I might not be remembering this exactly (I can't get it to reproduce the message), but I believe it said something about XComposite failing to start.

I'm not sure whether or not this is related, but Beryl Settings Manager refuses to start.  There's also no Emerald Theme Manager option.

Here's how I installed Beryl.  Besides this, I made no changes.

pacman -S beryl-gnome
pacman -S beryl-extras

Added Options "TripleBuffer" and "AddARGBGLXVisuals" under device, and "Composite" "Enable" under a new section called Extentions.

Restarted Xorg.

Here's my 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  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "glx"
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>
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option      "AGPFastWrite" "true"
    Option      "EnablePageFlip" "true"
        Option      "TripleBuffer" "true"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "Unknown Board"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode      0666
EndSection

Section "Extentions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

loserveg

Member

From: Pittsburgh, Pa

Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 45

Re: Beryl Problem

when i was playing with beryl i had

Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals"

in the Screen section, dunno if that will help at all

rbrownclown

Member

Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Re: Beryl Problem

when i was playing with beryl i had

Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals"

in the Screen section, dunno if that will help at all

I believe that is optional, and for older cards.  Thanks anyway.  Any other suggestions?

junglepeanut

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From: California

Registered: 2007-01-24

Posts: 145

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Re: Beryl Problem

I do not have a nvidia card but I think with gnome (per a SUSE thread I once read; that even if you want to go nvidia only<as the driver should do it on its own for other DE's> but are using gnome you need the option) to have AIGLX set to true in the server layout. I think it is listed in our wiki as well. I haven't checked ours or anything just the only thing I noticed right away. It might not even be needed but would be a good place to start. Probably can't hurt.