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RobF

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 157

[SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

I'm using Arch current on a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with the Intel 950 graphics chipset and the xf86-video-i810 driver, with KDE as a Desktop and with beryl-kde installed.  I modified xorg.conf to enable AIXGL as prescribed in the Arch Beryl wiki but I can't get Beryl to work.  I get this error: Checking for XComposite extension: failed ... No composite extension.

The last two entries in my xorg.conf are:

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

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

What's wrong?

Last edited by RobF (2007-07-23 18:11:57)

dawei

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From: China

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

I encountered this problem yesterday, even though x was restarted, xcomposite still didnt work.
But after a reboot, beryl worked. I still dont know why.

mitsoko

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Registered: 2007-05-08

Posts: 143

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

you need to enable AIGLX::

Section "ServerLayout"
    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
         # ...

RobF

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 157

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

I encountered this problem yesterday, even though x was restarted, xcomposite still didnt work.
But after a reboot, beryl worked. I still dont know why.

The same solution worked for me: restarting X alone didn't get Beryl to work but after rebooting my machine Beryl works now.

Rokixz

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From: Šiauliai, Lithuania

Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 251

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

My beryl is not working also, i'm using gnome, and I'm getting this message:

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

Detected xserver                                : NVIDIA

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension               : failed

No composite extension
135025801 screens detected.
Currently we cannot guarantee that Beryl will work correctly with multiple X screens.
Using the --no-context-share command line option can help.
Please report any success to the beryl developer mailing list. The list can be found at lists.beryl-project.org

Here's my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Jun 13 18:39:30 PDT 2007

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "AIGLX" "true"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

After restart x and my machine not working still. Wat's a problem?

Thank's for your help

Last edited by Rokixz (2007-09-14 16:33:19)

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Rokixz

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Beryl to run - Error: "No composite extension"

Now it works, I just make it following http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Composite

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