Howto: Beryl (for Intel embedded graphics cards)

[iam_foo]

@ bullocks

did you try:

$ beryl-xgl

?

[bollocks00]

lenny@IBM:~$ beryl-xgl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
beryl-xgl: Root visual is not a GL visual
beryl-xgl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl-xgl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Any ideas?

[Namroc]

well almost everything is working here. Have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller. Everything seems to be working fine (no errors) but my windows are stuck. I had this problem before with aiglx in dapper and fixed it before but that was ages ago. Anyone have any sugestions that might help refresh my memory? any help is greatly appriciated ^_^

[iam_foo]

first:

sudo apt-get install alien

wget -c http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/8211/eng/dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm
sudo alien dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm
sudo dpkg -i dri-i915_v1.1-20041218_i386.deb

you may want to try 915resolution as well.

if that doesnt work..try this:

reboot
"hit escape to load grub menu"
select the first option that includes the word (recovery mode) at the end of the line.this will boot you into a text prompt.
try this:
just in case..

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-driver-i810

sudo reboot

boot normally into your WM. open a terminal.
type:

glxgears

if that doesnt work:

glxinfo

if you get this error mssg:

Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

try this:

reboot the same as described above.[recovery]

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-driver-i810

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-driver-i810

reboot.

[bollocks00]

Thanks, foo!

I'm not sure which part of that worked, but I suspect it was either

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx

or

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-i810
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-i810

For others who were having this problem, note that I purge/installed xorg-video-i810, not xorg-driver-i810. This is what worked for me!

[zupermanz]

I've noticed another problem...: When i playback video and the window of the player becomes trasparent i instead of video i see only a blue window (i hear the sound of the film). I noticed that this happens when i chage the opacity of the players window to something below 100%,
My question: Is there a way to fix that or to disable the trasparencies in inactive windows?

Thanks in advance

[Hotaru]

Yeah, I experience this transparency thingy as well . I guess disabling trail focus plugin would solve it, but that's not really a solution...

[iGama]

i have a Ati 9200 , using the open source drivers and it worked

( the ati open source drivers in edgy finally have direct rendering )

[vkkim]

EDIT: IT WORKS! I'm not sure exactly why, but it started working I messed around in my xorg.conf.

I am also using the i810 driver, but none of the solutions in the thread has worked (I followed the Dapper instructions in the link on a clean 6.06 install). Any help would be greatly appreciated

victor@thinkpad:~$ beryl-manager
victor@thinkpad:~$ XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
The program 'emerald' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 656 error_code 8 request_code 153 minor_code 8)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

** (beryl-manager:6467): WARNING **: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

[Pablasso]

I tried all that was stated here (dapper), linked modules, reinstalled drivers, ran beryl-xgl, etc. but beryl just doesnt starts

im on inspiron 6000 with intel embedded graphics