Beryl gives a blank white screen

[NoWorries]

I have installed beryl, beryl-core, beryl-kubuntu, beryl-manager, beryl-plugins, beryl-plugins-data, beryl-settings, beryl-settings-bindings, libberyldecorations0, emerald, libemeraldengine0 and aquarmine.
I have an Nvidia FX 5200 card and I have tried numerous setting changes of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf but I still get a blank white screen when I run beryl-manager. I can rotate the white cube and I can see the beryl diamond on the top. I have installed nvidia-glx-new with the related nvidia-kernel.... packages. These nvidia updates were done after the beryl installation because of numerous problems I was having in following the procedures for installing beryl.
I look forward to finding the solution to this problem.

[MoonRise]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Look at the X options here. See if any of these solves the problem:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...74518#msg74518

I have an FX5200, this is what my X file has, Beryl works very well on my system: (also make sure you have nvidia-glx installed)

Section "Device"
 identifier "nVidia GeForce FX 5200"
 boardname "nv"
 busid "PCI:1:0:0"
 driver "nvidia"
 screen 0
 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	28-51
	VertRefresh	43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"nVidia GeForce FX 5200"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[NoWorries]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Thanks for replying MoonRise,

I copied your device settings and rebooted only to get the familiar blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner and a hung system. My xorg.conf for the device settings is as follows

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

I tried to attach my file but I got an error message complaining about all the space being used

Here I have the device settings in the reference that you gave. I tried using the envy GUI to fix my problems but that did not work. I ended up using the envy procedures at the web address:

http://www.albertomilone.com/latest_....html#METHOD_1

To remove the problem with the blank screen and hung system. I have tried varies combinations to no avail.
I would be interested to know if your system works if you follow the envy procedures.

NoWorries

[MoonRise]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Truthfully. Everything on that system was installed originally under Edgy then upgraded to Feisty. I did very little other than allow Feisty to install all the nVidia drivers itself. I know a few have used envy, but I never have. I know that probably doesn't help you none. I'm really at a loss as to why.

This may be off the beaten path, but do you have the linux-restricted-modules-generic installed? It seems I vaguely remember something about it and nVidia. Don't hold me to it though. Just a passing thought.

[NoWorries]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

I migrated from SuSe 10.3 out of frustration with package management, packages that did not work and the complexity of getting applications to work. I must say that I found it easy to have the 3D desktop in SuSe. Hence, I did a new install of Feisty. I do have linux-restricted-modules-generic installed.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

NoWorries

[MoonRise]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Dibl has been real good with nVidia cards. Maybe if you put nVidia in the post title, he'll respond. I think it does relate to that, I just don't know where to go from here.

[MoonRise]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Try these:

http://mepislovers.org/forums/archiv...hp/t-2671.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=538653

Have you tried the newer versions of Beryl? What is in the Feisty repos aren't the latest.

[dibl]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

Here's a thread where we got a guy with an FX 5200 working:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082423.0

Probably you need to enable glx visuals and compositing, in your xorg-conf file, and make sure you are set to default to 24-bit depth. See the xorg-conf file shown several posts down that thread, or, if your nvidia driver is installed, you can do this in a console window:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite

and then re-start the xserver with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, log in, and see what you have.

The first time you run beryl-manager (in a console window), it should scan your x configuration and report on whether beryl can run satisfactorily. If you see errors there, post them and maybe we can help.

[NoWorries]

Re: Beryl gives a blank white screen

My version of Beryl is 0.2.1 and I now have 3D working great!!!!!!

From the references that I have been given, I found that when I issued the command "glxinfo | grep direct" I got an answer of No for direct rendering. I then checked my nvidia settings GUI and this was indeed the case but the menu gave no option to change that setting. My next step was to use the envy GUI with the "Install the NVIDIA driver Manually" option and I chose the previous version, ie 9631. The relevant parts of the xorg.conf file below show that rendering is now set

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "CMC 19 AD"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
SubSection "Display"

Thanks a million for all the help. Much appreciated

NoWorries