Beryl Works With Xgl, Not With Aiglx Or Nvidia Native

I haven't sen anyone else with this trouble. I would like to run beryl with native nvidia driver instead of xgl. The reason is to get hardware acceleration available for other applications (in cedega). When I install beryl as per the installation instructions here http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl for either nvidia native or aiglx x crashes immediatly on starting beryl-manager or just beryl. If anyone can help me out a little I would appreciate it. I guess also I could deal with using xgl if I had a good fast way of switching to no-xgl plain kde. I'm using opensuse 10.2 with the latest stable nvidia drivers, I also get the same results with the stable and snapshot beryl packages.

thanks
rob

Have you done the following?

Open Control Centre -> Desktop -> Window Behaviour -> Translucency

UNTICK use translucency/shadows.

Also you need to uninstall compiz, you can do that via YAST software management. I also uninstalled XGL via YAST as well.

AAH-HA! It was the compiz that was screwing me up! Thanks. I had dealt with the translucency issue and I thought I had tried with xgl and compiz uninstalled but just for kicks I tried again and whalla it works great. Thanks you. BTW I highly recommend dual monitor with beryl. It works much better then I expected.

hi chikenrob,

have you been able to operate the cube desktop using XGL and compiz?
how exactly am I able to know whether I'm using compiz?

currently I can have all those fancy features like cube desktop and window effects and other stuffs as well. I set all of those in the XGL setup.
it seems that i got limited features unlike those persons who use beryl.
how can I use beryl if currently I only have XGL?

do I have to remove it ?
how do I know whether I have compiz or beryl?

thanks,
Adhika

Wow I'm not sure I can answer all your questions but maybe I can help you.
I would check out wikipedia to learn the difference between xgl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl ,compiz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz , and beryl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_(window_manager) . As near as I can tell, Beryl and compiz are the actual desktop managers (akin to metacity or kwin) and xgl is a layer you may or may not need depending on your video card. If you have a cube desktop working I but no effects I would have two guesses as to what you are missing. Either you are running compiz and need to go here http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl and follow the instructions to install beryl. OR You have everything installed already and need just to run "beryl-manager" from the command line or find the beryl_manager in your kde or gnome menu.

Good luck!

Ok this sucks so I am back where I started. Here is what happened. I was trying to get a game (rollercoaster tycoon 2) to work with wine and kept getting a graphics error so I thought I would try different resolutions and colors to see if the game only would work with other modes. after switching screen res. and color rate a few times I found myself with an x server that was crashing. it seemed to be crashing at the same time beryl normally starts up so I took beryl-manager out of the autostart folder and I had my kde back. so I returned my screen res. and color settings to their origional and tried to start beryl. it crashed x so I uninstalled it and installed it again via yast, but the problem persisted. So I uninstalled again and this time included xgl and compiz and now I am running beryl with xgl again but I would much prefer to not run xgl as the graphics quality of other applications (fs video and 3d games) is greatly reduced. So if any of you has any idea how to get beryl to work without compiz and xgl, let me know because it crashes x for me every time.