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 .

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.