Beryl Problems

[samurailink3]

Hey, I'm trying to run Beryl for the first time, XGL+Compiz worked fine for me. I've got the nvidia drivers. Here are my system specs.

nVidia GeForce 7600
AMD XP 3200
512MB Ram
160GB HD

I'm running OpenSuSE10.1 and whenever I try to launch the Beryl Manager, the Beryl logo comes up, in all its wavy glory, but my desktop isn't rendered correctly. The cube is there, but everything is pure white, although the pics on the top and bottom are rendered. All the programs work as they should, I was able to control AmaroK with the keyboard shortcuts, but I can't see anything.
Ahh, I am also using Gnome, that's probably needed info.

[bigtomrodney]

It's actually a problem with XGL I believe. Beryl is more tailored to AIGLX nowadays, and in fact if you have the newest nVidia drivers you don't need AIGLX or XGL.

Basically kill beryl. Try loggin into VT1 by using ctrl+alt+f1 the run

killall beryl beryl-manager emerald

Use ctrl+alt+f7 to get back into X. At this point open a terminal. You will have no window manager so you won't be able to move windows for a minute. When the terminal opens try beryl-xgl. This should work, but at least if it doesn't you can paste back the output.

Note - You may need to relaunch emerald too. If you can't get beryl running just jump back to metacity

metacity --replace

[samurailink3]

Ok, did that, beryl came up, but I have no textures. The cube renders fine, but everything is all white. Here is the output I got from the terminal before I Ctrl+C'd the process.

beryl: pixmap 0xe000e8 can't be bound to texture
beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x1000003 to texture

I get a whole terminal window full of that stuff.

Edit: When I try to re-launch emerald, terminal just hangs there, seemingly doing nothing, but the program isn't frozen, the process just isn't doing anything, no feedback from it either.

Edit 2: I uninstalled XGL, to force Beryl to go to the nVidia rendering, here's what it gave me:

beryl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: No composite extension

[samurailink3]

Yes! I finally got Beryl to work through the nVidia Card. The only problem is that when I change beryl settings, it doesn't change them. It stays at the defaults. When I log into the root account, settings change just fine, but over here on my default username, it doesn't work. Any ideas?? And by the way, thanks a ton for the help, it pointed me in the direction for the solution.