XGL + Beryl + FC6 + whitescreen

[kvanshidhar]

Hello everyone,
I have been using XGL + Gnome + Compiz with the ATI drivers from livna on my ATI Xpress 200. Everything is working fine. But i have not been able to get any new themes for it.
I have the composite option disabled in xorg.conf

So i decided to try out Beryl. I installed beryl from beryl-repo. There are no errors while installation. I can run emerald, beryl-manager. When i run beryl-xgl or beryl from the command line i get the beryl splash screen and then the entire desktop goes white. i can see that the desktop is running beneath the whiteness.( cursor changes over the terminal). I can also rotate the cube.
Can anyone help me install beryl properly or give me a solution to this problem?? the solutions in the beryl forum weren't really helpful!

Thank you beforehand!

[Michael]

I haven't had much time yet to try out Beryl a lot yet on FC6, but when I have the time I'll give it a shot.

[delaossa]

Hello!
I thought it was not possible to run 3d effects (copiz and/or beryl) with the current official flgrx drivers, since they don't include the AIGLX support yet.

[Michael]

All of the effects work with the open-source Radeon drivers.

With the fglrx drivers, using XGL should be fine.

[delaossa]

You are rigth, I was confused.
XGL works with Compiz in gnome rather well, but this is useless for me, since I am a KDE user.

Using XGL with KDE and Beryl I have two problems:
- XGL hangs when starting a KDE session: the XGL process consume the 99% of the cpu and everything goes extremely slow.
- If I enable beryl-manager then the latter problem disappears, but I get the white screem that kvanshidhar report in the the first post of this topic.

[delaossa]

It seems that the white screen problem with the FC6 + XGL + Beryl configuration still having no solution.
I have tried this morning with the latest releases of the fglrx driver (the 8.31.5 from livna) and Beryl (beryl-core-0.1.2-5.fc6 from the Beryl repository) and I am getting the same "nice" white cube with the beryl logo at the top and bottom faces :confused: .

Any ideas appart from waiting for the expected AIGLX support for the fglrx drivers?

[Michael]

Not too sure off hand, as I haven't yet had the time to load up Beryl on FC6. I'll work on trying it out in the coming days.

[changyp]

I have the same problem as you..
I installed XGL on my FC6 and I am using KDE.
I am hoping the offical ati driver support AIGLX.

[anewcomb]

I had the same problem, but only with beryl-xgl. When I run just "beryl" it works fine. I had to add an entry for "beryl" in my session properties startup dialogue otherwise beryl-manager chose compiz as my desktop manager.

Aaron Newcomb
http://www.thesourceshow.org

[reugen]

i was able to get rid of the white screen was to go to tty6 and kill off compiz/beryl then go back to tty7 and logout, works fine now.
Or you can you can get rid of it through rm ~/.kde/Autostart/beryl-manager.

[changyp]

I had the same problem, but only with beryl-xgl. When I run just "beryl" it works fine. I had to add an entry for "beryl" in my session properties startup dialogue otherwise beryl-manager chose compiz as my desktop manager.

Aaron Newcomb
http://www.thesourceshow.org

I can't run beryl using XGL.Only beryl-xgl can work with XGL.
I don't know how to make beryl run under XGL.
Could you please tell me ???

[lejav]

I have the same problem: white screen with ATI + XGL + BERYL
Furthermore, I can login with xgl + beryl only once from time to time; Xgl dies very often before kde is started

Is there any chance to have this very beautiful manager ?????

[lejav]

it works if i use --use-copy as option for beryl-xgl
(or beryl-manager -> rendering path -> copy)
but performances must be slower than with tfp, and 3D applications dont work
for instance, fgl_glxgears does not work:

# fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1.0".
Error: couldn't get fbconfig

and also xgl si very unstable.....

i have to wait for a ATI driver including TFP ......

[Nirvald]

I have the same problem...

I use FC6 latest ATI drivers and beryl 0.1.4

I get Direct rendering enabled in Xorg.0.log and I can run fgl_glxgears without problem.

(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor
(II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 177.
(II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface
(==) RandR enabled

When I start beryl-manager and then choose beryl the screen turns grey first and then fades to white. I can see cursor changes and I can even click stuff even though I don't see anything... the screen is completely white.

in the beryl-log I get:

beryl: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Using non-tfp mode
beryl: GLX_SGIX_fbconfig is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
XGL Present

If I go to another console and killall beryl-xgl I get my screen back and also beryl-manager is still started so I can try diffrent options there... I have tried most things there but no luck, always the white screen.

This is my xorg.conf:


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "False"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
# Load "extmod"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "false"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

#Section "Screen"
# Identifier "Screen0"
# Device "Videocard0"
# DefaultDepth 24
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 24
# Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1152x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
# EndSubSection
#EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Tonight I will try with another grapichs card to see if I get the same problem... I will let you know how it turns out!

/ Morgan