FC7 - Beryl - Wont Load Beryl Window manager

[m3taL]

Hey Guys,

im running a Ath 2800 with a gig of ram the only thing letting my sys down is the Nv Gf4 Mx420.

iv install the nvid drivers 9639 Legacys and its all working sweet.

iv installed beryl and everytime i try activate the beryl window manager it just drops back to the default one.

is it that my card is too old for it?? or is there somthing else i am missing?

Jamie

[jdeslip]

if you can install and run the 9639 driver - you should be ready to go for beryl. can you post your xorg.conf for us to look at (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). Perhaps we can find the error in there. How are you attempting to start beryl?

[PabloTwo]

Are you using Gnome or KDE for a desktop? What is the output of:

su -
rpm -qa | grep beryl

You should see in the list either 'beryl-gnome' or 'beryl-kde'. If neither is there, you didn't install the GUI module for beryl.

Paul

[m3taL]

ok... im now running on a fresh install of FC7. due to one of my harddrives crashing... shouldnt use old hardware....

sudo rpm -qa | grep beryl
-
beryl-settings-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-plugins-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-settings-simple-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-kde-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-core-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-gnome-0.2.1-1.fc7
beryl-manager-0.2.1-1.fc7

so i have the correct Modules install as far as i can see.

The xorg.conf is just the std one... havnt edited it as i have no need too atm

here it is:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Mon Apr 16 20:37:13 PDT 2007

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

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

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And when i start Beryl Manager it flickers my Windows then falls back to the Default fall back window manager, if i try select it from the beryl manager again it does the same thing.. if i turn off roll back it will just have no window manager at all and i need to restart X to get it back....

iv selected a theme in Emerald etc... played with various settings... nothing seems to change the fact it wont init...

any help on this will be awesome.

Jamie

[jdeslip]

Well, I think most people install the nvidia driver from livna these days - which creates a different xorg.conf

I think you should copy parts of mine:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Mouse"
	InputDevice    "Remote"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "7"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Remote"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/lircm"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	Option	    "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Get rid of your glx line and add the two extra lines to your device section.

You might also try staring beryl-manager from the command line to see what messages it gives you.

-Jack

[m3taL]

Originally Posted by jdeslip

Well, I think most people install the nvidia driver from livna these days - which creates a different xorg.conf

I think you should copy parts of mine:

{WAS CODE HERE}

Get rid of your glx line and add the two extra lines to your device section.

You might also try staring beryl-manager from the command line to see what messages it gives you.

-Jack

Jack,

Thanks a million buddy. done what you asked and it worked first time off.

Cheers Heaps

Jamie

[jdeslip]

Good stuff - it seems like the nvidia installer from nvidia sets up your xorg.conf in a more conservative way than if you do 'yum install kmod-nvidia' after adding the livna package repository. This is probably due to the black window bug (if you open a lot of windows under beryl eventually some will be black because of a memory problem) - nvidia said this bug would be fixed in the next release so perhaps their installer will create an xorg.conf that allows for effects by default after the next release.