Beryl and Xorg

[gatekeeper]

I cannot have Beryl work at my system. I have installed the latest snapshots. My video card is ATI, the drivers have been installed perfectly, plus i do not encounted the message "no DRI on 0:0....) The tests fglgears etc run perfect etc etc. But only Beryl does not work. What should I do?
Previously i changed the default window manager to be "Xgl", but there were problems with games etc. Beryl was working then. But everything else were problematic. After changing the value to Xorg everything is fine except from Beryl.
Any ideas?

[gogalthorp]

Maybe you don't need the latest snapshots. Perhaps you should find a stable version.

[gatekeeper]

Maybe you don't need the latest snapshots. Perhaps you should find a stable version.

Tried that but same problem occurs. By the way, at the console when I execute "beryl-manager" and then I get to enable beryl I get the following output:

************************************************** ************
* Beryl system compatiblity check *
************************************************** ************
Detected xserver : AIGLX
Checking Display :0.0 ...
Checking for XComposite extension : failed
No composite extension
beryl: No composite extension

[gatekeeper]

By the way, I DO NOT have "compiz" installed nor do i want to have it installed; it causes incompatibilities with ati and beryl.

[bigtomrodney]

The problem is that with ATI you must use Xgl rather than AIGLX because the ATI proprietary drivers do not support the necessary extensions to use AIGLX. Thus you run a nested GL accelerated X server within the primary X server (XGL). If you use the open source drivers instead you may have sucess but I suspect that this will be no good for your gaming performance.

[gatekeeper]

The problem is that with ATI you must use Xgl rather than AIGLX because the ATI proprietary drivers do not support the necessary extensions to use AIGLX. Thus you run a nested GL accelerated X server within the primary X server (XGL). If you use the open source drivers instead you may have sucess but I suspect that this will be no good for your gaming performance.

What should the next step be? I am not sure what to do :P

If there are many alternatives please feel free to post them all here. I have tried a lot of stuff in the past, but thats the first time that i have not the problem indicated at my first post.

[bigtomrodney]

You have three choices -

• Switch back to XGL as you ran it previously
• Experiment with the open source radeon or ati drivers and see if the framerates are acceptable
• Wait for ATI to implement the GL_texture_from_pixmap extension in the proprietary drivers

[gatekeeper]

You have three choices -

• Switch back to XGL as you ran it previously
• Experiment with the open source radeon or ati drivers and see if the framerates are acceptable
• Wait for ATI to implement the GL_texture_from_pixmap extension in the proprietary drivers

Well i decided to install compiz eventually. So now, i get this annoying Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0" .... plus when i execute "glxinfo" I get in the end only:
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2d 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2e 32 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 Ncon
0x2f 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Ncon

Before, those values were far more than what you see right now about 20-24 more lines.. Is what i get now normal?

[gatekeeper]

I have also noticed that when i edit the xorg.conf file manually, at reboot Linux dont get to the GUI. Nor does "init 5" works as root. So i have to execute "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx" losing all manually entered settings.. Why is that?