Beryl on Debian...

[Justinwiz]

What is the command to type in the shell to download and install Beryl?
Like "apt-get beryl" or something
Help please

[Juan Pablo]

Something like that but you actually need to configure some things before proceeding, which video card are you using? Did you already get 3D working?

[Justinwiz]

I think

[Juan Pablo]

I don't think your post answers my first question, which video card are you using?

[Justinwiz]

I Don't know...
I'm using a Dell laptop to experiment on with Beryl and Compiz

[Juan Pablo]

Post the output of lspci please

[The O'Really Factor]

Okay, well first you need to configure your video drivers. If you're using Nvidia, you'll need to go here: Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : NVIDIA drivers; If you're using ATI, you'll need to go here: Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : ATI drivers.

After that, I suggest using an install script that some guy made to help make things easier on us. You can find said script here: The Beryl Project • View topic - Beryl Setup/Installer

I too am using debian, and that's exactly how I am happily running beryl today.

If you have any questions about any of this, I'm happy to help you, so ask away.

Oh, and have you already installed Compiz? If so, you should look into uninstalling it, because from what I hear, Beryl and Compiz don't work so well together. Unless of course their merge changed that.

[mask69]

I have still a problem with my Beryl.

I'm using Debian 4.0 I386

When I launch Beryl i keep getting this errors:

************************************************** ***********
* 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
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Checking for non power of two texture support : failed

Support for non power of two textures missing
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
beryl: glXBindTexImageEXT is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

My display controller is:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
Actually when i bought the laptop the display card it wrote there : Ati Mobility Radeon 1150 and the drivers are up to date.

Ca you help me out?
Pls dont be afraid to ask me more about the configurations!


Thanks,

[Juan Pablo]

You need to use XGL not AIGLX assuming you already have the 3D acceleration working.
There are hundreds of tutorials out there

[mask69]

Thanks Juan Pablo for the answer,


So your advising me to stop AIGLX from the xorg.conf ?


Best regards,