More Beryl woes -SOLVED-

[TedNig]

Hello all, I trust the day is treating you well.

I was trying to setup Beryl, and it would not fly. being a fairly new install, I just did a fresh one. Got the nVidia drivers up, glxgears reports fast rates, and nVidia Settings manipulates the card, so I am thinking all is aok.

So, I installed Beryl, kubuntu beryl, and beryl-manager. I rebooted, and fired up the manager. It ran fine, had cube, and the works. I was trying to fix the Windows Decor boggle; the no title bar pain, and put it to aquamarine in the manager. i rebooted. Now when I fire up the Beryl Manager, the icon bounces for about 40 seconds, then kaput. It stops, and does not load.

I rebooted, same thing, tried a few times in the same session, and it will not load anymore.

Any ideas?

nVidia 5200FX, seems to have driver properly installed.

[dibl]

Re: More Beryl woes

Yep -- been there, done that, got the tee-shirt!

:P

First, you can lose that old Windows habit of rebooting the computer every time the teeniest of changes happens -- it will save you a lot of time over the long term. At most, you'll need only to restart your xserver, which is done with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

OK, it does sound like the Nvidia driver is right, but are you sure you have glx-visuals and compositing installed? You need them both for Beryl to work right -- I suspect you have them because I don't think you'd get the cube or window decorations if you didn't. With the driver utility on your desktop, click in the middle menu item "glx extension" (approximately), and see if it opens and shows you lots of glx-related capabilities.

In Edgy, I declared Aquamarine FUBAR, and simply learned to like Emerald. So, now I have Feisty but I learned to be content with Emerald, so I haven't exercised Aquamarine. I shall try it tonight. Meanwhile, does Emerald work reliably for you? Is "Emerald Settings" in your Beryl Manager menu? Have you learned to change the Emerald theme, and get different window decorations? If so, then I'll cast a continuing suspicion in Aquamarine as maybe a little buggy still, although I think there was a post a couple weeks ago where someone said Aquamarine was working great under Beryl.

So, maybe you should try KMenu>System>Beryl Manager, and then IF IT RUNS AT ALL, quickly change the window decorator back to Emerald, and then "reload window decorator", and then verify that the window manager is set to "Beryl" and then "reload window manager".

I know, it's pretty touchy -- that's why they continue to call it "beta" .....



EDIT: I take it back, about Aquamarine. It's working just fine -- no bugs that I can see. 8)

[TedNig]

Re: More Beryl woes

Thanks for the help!!!

Ok, I got it to fire off pretty regular now. Strange, just started firing. Oh well..

The cube works aok!
No Windows Decorations though. I've the plug in enabled, changed it to Aquamarine, and Emerald just for kix, and back, neither give decorations.

I found in another post by you to edit the xorg.conf to include some things. here is what I've got.

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA"
  BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
  BusID     "PCI:1:0:0"
  Screen     0
  Option    "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
  Option    "BackingStore"   "true"
  Option     "RenderAccel"      "true"
  Option     "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "Default Screen"
  Device     "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
  Monitor    "FLATRON 774F"
  DefaultDepth  24
  SubSection   "Display"
    Virtual   1400 1050
    Depth    24
    Modes   "800x600@60" "832x624@75" "800x600@85" "1024x768@85" "800x60$
  EndSubSection

# Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
  Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
  Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

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

Thanks again.

[TedNig]

Re: More Beryl woes

Oh, and yes, there is ALL kinds of info in the OpenGL/GLX information section.

I've also found to change the colour depth to 24. Well, it is in xorg.conf, however in the nVidia settings utility, there is no 24 bit colour depth. hhmmmm.. -scratching head-

p.s. A 'reboot' to me is ctl-alt-bspc.

[TedNig]

Re: More Beryl woes -SOLVED-

-slapping head-

The Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" is in the wrong spot. It is supposed to be under 'screens'.

Anyway, thanks, good luck, and hope this may help another.

[dibl]

Re: More Beryl woes -SOLVED-

Yay -- I love it when someone gets things working right!

Now, let's see you put

Option "Coolbits" "1"

in your screen stanza, and overclock that Nvidia card until it smokes!

[TedNig]

Re: More Beryl woes -SOLVED-

ROFLMAO!!! We will walk, then run. I got Guild Wars up and running via Transgaming. SMOKES!! It's as fast as it is on my XP box. My boy and I were playing side by side.

I am also able to switch 'sides of the cube; or 'desktops' while playing full screen. THAT is kewl, and exactly what I was wanting.