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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 142

Beryl destroys screen

Hello,

I just gave the beryl-svn packages a try on my system but the result was disappointing: After entering "beryl-manager", my KDE desktop was destroyed, every window had a kind of green color (looks seasick...), the taskbar was unreadable, and some other bad effects. Everything is ok again after restart of the X server without beryl.

I read the wiki, installed the basic beryl-svn-kde packages and changed the xorg.conf according to the wiki.
I have a nvidia FX6200 card connected to a TFT via DVI, so my xorg.conf contains the line

Options "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"

.
May this cause a problem?
Actual nvidia driver (from arch) is installed.

Where shall I start to solve the problem?

Thanks, Dieter[/code]

Bralkein

Member

Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: Beryl destroys screen

I had a similar setup to you, including the TFT monitor connected through DVI, and I did not need that line in my xorg.conf. What happens if you remove it?

Dieter

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 142

Re: Beryl destroys screen

The "ConnectedMonitor" option seems to be obsolete, removing doesn't change anything. But it doesn't help me with my beryl problem.

I put a screenshot here to show you my desktop after I entered "beryl".

I made the following modifications in xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
#    Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"    # TFT am DVI-Anschluss (nvidia)
    VendorName  "All"
    BoardName   "All"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "True"   # beryl
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"     # beryl
        
EndSection
# new, for beryl
Section "Extensions"   # beryl
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Output after entering "beryl":
[dieter@arch ~]$ beryl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Using non-tfp mode
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, falling back on visinfo.
beryl: No stencil buffer. Clipping of transformed windows is not going to be correct when screen is transformed.
Initiating splash
beryl: water: GL_ARB_fragment_program is missing
Reloading all options.

[dieter@arch ~]$

What's wrong with my xorg.conf, have I forgotten further changes?

Or does beryl not work with DVI output on nvidia cards (I found some hints in the net that there had been problems with nvidia drivers for older graphic adapters in connection with DVI and beryl but don't know the current status and whether my GF6200 is affected by that problem)?

Dieter

Bralkein

Member

Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: Beryl destroys screen

My device section is different to yours. It looks like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "geforce fx"
    Driver      "nvidia"

    # Options for AIGLX:
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "DRI"     "true"
    Option      "AllowGLXWithcomposite" "true"
EndSection

I also have a line in Section "ServerLayout":

# Accelerated indirect rendering
    Option "AIGLX" "true"