Beryl 0.20 no go for me. :(

stmok · 2007-03-16 14:13:23

System:
Sempron 2800+ (1.6Ghz, Socket 754, AMD64 capable but I'm using 32bit Arch Linux)
GF FX5900XT
1GB RAM
NF3 250Gb chipset

I did a complete upgrade to the most current. pacman -Syu
(I've only enabled Current, Extra, and Community.)

Which means I'm using Nvidia driver 1.0-9755 and Xorg 7.2.0

I'm using KDE 3.5.6 and made sure OpenGL worked.
(glxinfo said I'm using Direct Rendering, and glxgears appears as per normal, I get around 6820 FPS for this system).

I wanted to try the new release of Beryl. (ver 0.20)

I followed instructions as detailed here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beryl

pacman -S beryl-kde

My xorg.conf is...

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/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/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" ""
    Option         "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option         "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    HorizSync      30.0 - 70.0 
    VertRefresh    50.0 - 160.0
 EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "All"
    BoardName      "All"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals"    
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       23
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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

What's the problem?

I wanted to test Beryl, so I ran beryl-manager in terminal window, and emerald icon appeared in the taskbar. This is OK.

However, when I tried to switch the Window Manager to Beryl, I get the following:

**************************************************************
* Beryl system compatiblity check                            *
**************************************************************

Detected xserver                                : NVIDIA

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension               : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension                  : passed
Checking for RandR extension                    : passed
Checking for XSync extension                    : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig                  : passed
Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap        : passed
Checking for non power of two texture support   : passed
Checking maximum texture size                   : passed (4096x4096)

Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
**************************************************************
* Beryl system compatiblity check                            *
**************************************************************

Detected xserver                                : NVIDIA

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension               : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension                  : passed
Checking for RandR extension                    : passed
Checking for XSync extension                    : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig                  : passed
Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap        : passed
Checking for non power of two texture support   : passed
Checking maximum texture size                   : passed (4096x4096)

beryl: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

I tried Beryl on another Arch Linux box...Essentially the same system, BUT using a GF7600GS (DDR3), and it works beautifully. I'm not sure what's wrong with this particular system in question.

I also looked at the Beryl forums, and I've noticed some people are getting the same issue. No real solution has merged.

Has anyone else got this problem as well? How did you solve your issue?

noriko · 2007-03-16 22:04:37

beryl: Another window manager is already running on screen: 0

as it suggests another wm is running ... you may try killing it manually
i.e [killall metacity, killall kwin, killall xfwm4] && beryl-manager

EPOWER · 2007-03-16 23:14:36

Try this: Don't Use AIGLX, The nVidia drivers can work with Beryl without AIGLX.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xorg Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
---> #Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

PS: I don't think that the System is a problem.
I Run Beryl on:
Nforce2 mother, AMD Duron 1800Mhz, 768MB of Ram and a Geforce 6200AGP ( ).

stmok · 2007-03-17 03:56:11

Thanks folks, I got it working.

What did I do?
For Configure Desktop... > Behaviour, you need to have Show Icons on Desktop checked.
(I hear this is required by Beryl, but it did nothing for me though. It affects some folks, not others).

I also applied:

Control Center > Appearance & Themes > Style > Effects:
Enable GUI Effects should be checked, but Combobox, Tooltip, Menu, Menu tear-off handles, and Menu Drop Shadow should be disabled. These options interfere with Beryl's built-in effects.
Control Center > Desktop > Panels > Appearance:
Disable both Enable icon mouseover effects and Show Tooltips. These counteract Beryl's Window Preview plugin.

From here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Beryl

And I commented out the AIGLX line in the xorg.conf.

I then logged out and restarted X-Server, and logged back in. This worked!

To be sure this isn't a once off fluke (test to make sure), I shut down the PC, waited for an hour and booted her up.

It works!

I notice one bug...In Azureus, some of the words in the menus come out as jibberish. (scrambled up). Do you folks get this issue?

OT: I tell you what, when I first tried Compiz/XGL it was buggy as heck. I was turned off by how it was a slow with video and Torcs (OpenGL racing game), running at the same time. Now with the Nvidia enabled features with Beryl, its pretty cool. I run a video in full screen on one virtual desktop, Torcs in another, Firefox in a third, Azureus and aMule in the forth.

My fav effect is that burn one where you minimise and maximise. LOL! Damn hillarious!

Let's see if my old ThinkPad with Mobility Radeon 7500 works with Beryl.
(I hear it does, so it'll be a new breath of fresh air for this old notebook!)

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#1 2007-03-16 14:13:23

Beryl 0.20 no go for me. :(

#2 2007-03-16 22:04:37

Re: Beryl 0.20 no go for me. :(

#3 2007-03-16 23:14:36

Re: Beryl 0.20 no go for me. :(

#4 2007-03-17 03:56:11

Re: Beryl 0.20 no go for me. :(

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