beryl - finally works great here on Radeon 9800 with DRI

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-11-10 21:11:39

pacman just updated beryl to:

[jp@darkwood ~]$ pacman -Q |grep beryl
beryl-core-svn 1119-1
beryl-dbus-svn 1090-1
beryl-manager-svn 1117-1
beryl-plugins-svn 1118-1
beryl-settings-svn 1090-1

and finally it works great!

To run it you need to set some options in xorg.conf (look in wiki), then just run:

[jp@darkwood ~]$ beryl-manager

Everything works very, very smooth on my Radeon 9800 with DRI drivers (no fglrx!).

I found only two problems:
- I can't make movies and OpenGL applications transparent
- I can't play movies in gl/gl2 (mplayer), they are flickering

brain0 · 2006-11-10 22:55:30

These new versions don't use texture-from-pixmap by default. Try enabling and disabling it in beryl-manager to see if anything changes.

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-11-12 10:55:51

New version crashes like before:

beryl-core-svn 1133-1
beryl-dbus-svn 1090-1
beryl-manager-svn 1136-1
beryl-plugins-svn 1130-1
beryl-settings-svn 1135-1

When I enter "beryl-manager" in terminal - X server crashes.
Only the previous version was working correctly.

honki · 2006-12-12 15:23:51

Same problem here (Radeon 9500Pro).

beryl-core-svn 1660-1
beryl-manager-svn 1660-1
beryl-plugins-svn 1668-1
beryl-settings-svn 1668-1

AIGLX etc. seems to work fine.

brain0 · 2006-12-12 19:14:17

You should try the --use-tfp (default again for a while now) and --use-copy (the one that probably worked for you) modes. --use-copy doesn't use AIGLX or so, but was the default in that one release that you reported working.

ise · 2006-12-12 19:32:28

Hi,
works great here with a nvidia GeForce6200. I use the nvidia drivers, no AIGLX or XGL. Latest beryl version from unstable.

lietuva · 2006-12-12 21:42:54

for the first time ever, Beryl+AIGLX works perfect with open source DRI on my radeon 9800..

[alex@alex-erectus ~]$ pacman -Qs beryl
local/beryl-core-svn 1660-1
Window manager with emphasis on visual effects and usability
local/beryl-dbus-svn 1655-1
DBUS plugin for beryl
local/beryl-manager-svn 1660-1
Management dockap for beryl
local/beryl-plugins-svn 1668-1
Plugins for beryl
local/beryl-settings-svn 1668-1
Settings manager for beryl
local/emerald-svn 1666-1
Window decorator for beryl
local/emerald-themes-svn 1632-1
Themes for emerald, the beryl window decorator

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#1 2006-11-10 21:11:39

beryl - finally works great here on Radeon 9800 with DRI

#2 2006-11-10 22:55:30

Re: beryl - finally works great here on Radeon 9800 with DRI

#3 2006-11-12 10:55:51

Re: beryl - finally works great here on Radeon 9800 with DRI

#4 2006-12-12 15:23:51

Re: beryl - finally works great here on Radeon 9800 with DRI

#5 2006-12-12 19:14:17

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#6 2006-12-12 19:32:28

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