Pulling hair out over beryl!

[nerdman978]

Ok well I've tried at least 6 or 7 guides by now on how to get beryl and 3D acceleration to run on my computer. This is to no avail; however, as every time I get the X server error on restart or nothing happens at all! I've already installed the beryl manager and the emerald themes manager but I need to get it to work. Nothing happens when I change the window manager via beryl manager to beryl, the screen blinks (and I believe tries to get beryl to run) and then reverts to how it was before. I've also tried changing the rendering paths and platforms under "Advanced Beryl Options" and still nothing. I feel like by now I've tried everything! However, a quick trip to Youtube and a Beryl video helps me keep my eye on the prize. My video card is the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 if that helps. Please help me out here!

[Ziox]

Is your card supported out of the box?
glxinfo | grep direct

if that commands returns "no", then you have to install the fglrx driver

sudo aptitude install xorg-driver-fglrx

Also you need to install xserver-xgl for beryl to work if you have to install the fglrx driver.

[nerdman978]

nate@nate-laptop:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

Thats what it puts out. I have no idea if my card is supported out of the box.

[zero244]

Your lucky it doesnt freeze your computer and just reverts back to Metacity. I had Beryl working pretty stable on a ATI 9600 card.....then I bought a new card a Nvidia 7600 went through all the hoops. Now when I turn on Beryl it freezes me solid.....my mouse works but I have to reset then turn off beryl from terminal and reboot again. I had much better luck with my ATI card.........all the posts about how much better Nvidia is, is not true.
What do you have listed for your driver in the Device section.
If its ATI that wont work.
Be sure to have a working backup of your xorg.conf file........otherwise you will be screwed 9 ways to sunday if there is a problem.

[Ziox]

If you didn't install the fglrx driver, then you have support out of the box, which is good.

Open terminal and enter the command "beryl" it should spit out lots of stuff...including errors

[nerdman978]

************************************************** ************
* Beryl system compatiblity check *
************************************************** ************

Detected xserver : AIGLX

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension : passed
Checking for RandR extension : passed
Checking for XSync extension : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig : passed
Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap : passed
Checking for non power of two texture support : passed
Checking maximum texture size : failed

Root window size (1400/1050) is bigger then maximum texture size (1024x1024)

X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext
Major opcode of failed request: 157 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 4 (X_GLXDestroyContext)
Serial number of failed request: 39
Current serial number in output stream: 41


thanx for the help, by the way
I lowered the screen rez and switched the manager to beryl but it still didnt work because the screen edges were fuzzy and unreadable all over the place. Compiz worked ok. No cube rotation!

[Ziox]

do you have dual monitors enabled?

[nerdman978]

no

here is my entire xorg.conf

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
Load "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Mobility Radeon 9000"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Mobility Radeon 9000"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1440" "1920x1200" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[zero244]

When I had a ATI card....I followed this How To.
I used Synaptic to install the drivers and other ATI stuff. I had Beryl running pretty stable with this setup. I may go back to my ATI card and reinstall XGL etc.


http://lhansen.blogspot.com/2006/10/3d-desktop-beryl-and-xgl-on-ubuntu-edgy.html

[Ziox]

I wouldn't use that guide if I were you. That guide involves installing the fglrx driver, and the xgl server. They are not pretty to work with. and since you already have out of box support for your card, no need to install fglrx or xgl server.

[nerdman978]

So what should I use?

[nerdman978]

Anyone want to help (bump)?