Beryl On Suse 10.1 And Kde 3.5.5 (my Own How To)

Updated (Nvidia-settings reports now server vendor version as 7.1.99.2 (70199002)) but I still have the same problem ...

First I reinstalled the Nvidia driver ...
after that I uninstalled all of beryl with emerald etc. and reeinstalled it by yast but the error still occurs. Could it be that the uninstallation process leaves some configs left ?

The same error occurs when I want to start emerald all alone
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problem solved !!!
remove the line

Load "v4l"

in xorg.conf "modules section"

I don't know what this line stands for but see
http://forum.beryl-project.org/post-47967

Well, I've problems with starting beryl-manager.
I'm running SuSE 10.1, GNOME and have installed a nVidia-driver.

In my xorg.conf I've this sections:

Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce Go 7600"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
VendorName "NVidia"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection

But when I run beryl-manager the system kicks me back to the logon system

Can anybody tell me why?
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Got everything installed but when i started beryl by the beryl-manager command
now all i get is a white screen? can't get my regular window back.

Got everything installed but when i started beryl by the beryl-manager command
now all i get is a white screen? can't get my regular window back.
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When you run nvidia-settings do you get Xorg 7.XXX?
Can you post your xorg file here.

I've seen this "white screen" problem often while googeling, but with no answer. I'll post what worked for me.
I'm using xorg 7.2 with the latest nVidia drivers (so no XGL or AIGLX)

~> kate $HOME/.beryl-managerrc2

copy/paste this:

[wm-settings]
active_wm=0
fallback_wm=0
active_dm=0
iconsize=24
use_fallback_wm=true

[beryl-settings]
render_path=0
cow_mode=0
rendering_mode=0
platform=0
binding=0
no_gl_yield=false

save, then:

~> kate $HOME/.kde/Autostart/beryl.sh

copy/paste this:

cp -T $HOME/.beryl-managerrc2 $HOME/.beryl-managerrc
beryl-manager

save, then remove any other thing that autostarts beryl when kde starts (like "beryl.desktop" in your /.kde/Autostart/ folder)

So, I found out that whenever I log out kde, the ".beryl-managerrc" file changes, with "active_wm=1". I think this should tell beryl-manager something like this "Start compiz+emerald+nvidia acceleration" and this makes the whole thing white. Changing it to "active_wm=0" will tell it "Start beryl+emerald+nvidia accel" and this is starting to make sens .

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here on this forum, and I came here via the suse wiki page. I figured I could probably just make a whole new thread, but was reading this one and thought I would just add my question. If I should have started a new thread, sorry my bad. I have been trying to install beryl for a while and can not seem to get it to work. It seems whenever I enable XGL X crashes, if I disable it, it runs fine. Here is my config

HP dx5150 business class destkop AMD64 2Ghz 2Gig DDR400 RAM
ATI x550 PCI-E video card (128mg I think?)
OpenSuSe 10.2 (clean install) and have ran all updates via YaST so far.

I followed the instructions to the T on the beryl wiki page linked here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl

I added the lines in Xorg.conf

I enabled AIGLX

I updated the ATI driver to the newest release via shell script from ATI's website.

Here is my last Xorg log:

(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct rendering
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!*******************
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)************ *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available*****************
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

And this is what happens when I try to run beryl manager while in X

Penguinzilla:/home/tlarkin # Xlib:**extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0';
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the window manager.
New Window Manager
kbuildsycoca running...
KWrited - Listening on Device /dev/pts/3
kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
**************************************************************
* Beryl system compatibility check************************** *
**************************************************************

Detected xserver********************************: AIGLX

Checking Display :0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension************** : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension******************: failed

No damage extension
beryl: No damage extension
Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file /opt/gnome/share/themes/Gilouche/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file '/opt/gnome/share/themes/Gilouche/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory
Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Gilouche": Failed to open file '/opt/gnome/share/themes/Gilouche/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory
New Window Manager

Any ideas?????

I got a problem. I cant get a how to / repo for how/where to download and install Xorg 7.1 (installing shouldnt be a problem with the best of the best YaST)

and, for tiarkin, i think adding damage true in the Extensions section of your xorg.conf should do the deal

Jim, Norway