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    Beryl + ATI + Dual Monitors + Feisty x86_64

    Hello! Wondering if anyone would be able to help me. I've been working on this for about 6 days now and can't seem to figure it out.

    I've got an ATI X300 video card with dual outputs. After fighting with it for 4 days, I finally got dual monitors to work with the fglrx drivers. Now that I've got this up and running, I figured getting Beryl installed would be a cinch. When I try to run beryl-manager and switch to Beryl, I get this error:

    Detected xserver : AIGLX

    Checking Display :0.0 ...

    Checking for XComposite extension : failed

    No composite extension
    beryl: No composite extension

    After doing some searching online, I'm told that the fglrx driver does not support composite and would need to use another driver. But, to use dual monitor support, I'm also told that I would need to use fglrx. Is there any way I can get both dual monitors AND Beryl running? I'm on Feusty x86_64.

    Any help anyone can provide would be great!

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    Re: Beryl + ATI + Dual Monitors + Feisty x86_64

    Fglrx and AIGLX

    Fglrx doesn't support AIGLX. Maybe someday:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=782&num=1
    Moving forward to the 8.39.4 driver released today, we still have no AIGLX or R600 support
    Fglrx and XGL
    Fglrx supports XGL. With XGL you can get Beryl to work with fglrx.

    BUT
    CompositeManager/Xgl
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/Xgl
    Xgl is alpha software so it isn't recommended that you install this software on a production machine. For Dual Monitor (or more) users: A lot of people are experiencing troubles when enabling Xgl. Especially for this group, be *very* careful with Xgl.

    I tried Beryl with fglrx + XGL.
    Topic: i want to install Beryl on Kubuntu 7.04 graphic card is ATI x1400
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082628.0

    Now i'm testing Compiz fusion.
    Topic: DIY: Fglrx and Compiz Fusion on Kubuntu Feisty
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085226.0
    Before you edit, BACKUP !

    Why there are dead links ?
    1. Thread: Please explain how to access old kubuntu forum posts
    2. Thread: Lost Information

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      #3
      Re: Beryl + ATI + Dual Monitors + Feisty x86_64

      Well, that settles that. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. At this point, I'm just going to wait until I upgrade to get an nVidia card. Thanks again for your help!

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