I'm sorry it has come to asking here, I don't feel right asking for help with something that, by its very nature, is unstable.

But anyway, the problem is that, having installed Beryl, it loads ok, but everything it displays is white (and I mean everything!). At first I thought it was just gving me a completely white screen, but it turns out I can spin the cube, even move windows, but everything is just white so I can't see it. This seems to be a reasonably common problem as there were a lot of pages show up when I googled, but no one has definate solution.

I get the same results using either Xgl or the regular X server, the stable or the beta Nvidia drivers and Gentoo or Debian (I haven't tried every possible combination). My Graphics card is an Nvidia 7600GS in a twinview configuration.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be most grateful,

Thank You,
James

I had the same thing. Re-install the nvidia driver. On the last step where it asks you if you want the installer to change the xorg.conf file SAY NO! That is all I had to do to get it working.

EDIT:I'm using the latest drivers from nvidia

Running SuSE 10.2 & Beryl
Hate to revive an old message but im getting this same problem. Beryl was working famously last night, but this morning, all went to hell. I tried what was stated above but it didnt work. I have also found numerous people telling me what to do in case this occurs but what they tell me to do wont work! I might be doing it wrong though...

They Say:
"
Type this:
~> kate $HOME/.beryl-managerrc2

copy/paste this:


[wm-settings]
active_wm=0
fallback_wm=0
active_dm=0
iconsize=24
use_fallback_wm=true

[beryl-settings]
render_path=0
cow_mode=0
rendering_mode=0
platform=0
binding=0
no_gl_yield=false

save, then:

~> kate $HOME/.kde/Autostart/beryl.sh

copy/paste this:

cp -T $HOME/.beryl-managerrc2 $HOME/.beryl-managerrc
beryl-manager
"
Before, when it logged in, it would show the beryl logo then just the white screen. The only way i thought of doing anything was by pressing ctrl alt f1. It doesnt allow me to do the Kate command. How would i do it? Now, after i reinstalled my nvidia drivers, it doesnt even take me to the desktop or the white screen. It just tells me to textually login. I log in and type startx but it says:

"Fatal server error:
Could not create server lock file: /tmp/x0-lock
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server Error."

Any suggestions? Should do a repair install or something and redo everything? Would doing a repair off the suse disk basically revert to "factory" settings and files?

Thanks!

It happens to me occasionally too; in order to restore proper function, I switch to console, kill beryl and any gnome-decorators, switch back to X and start beryl from the beryl-manager window manager menu. When you are in console and want to run an X application, you need to type
and then beryl-manager or whatever else you want.

How is this accomplished? When I switch to console and type kill beryl it tells me that the kill command needs a process number?

You can kill beryl with one of the following:
or
.

Thanks, at least I can get to my desktop now.

Or use 'beryl --use-copy' when launching. This is attributed to a problem with GLX_texture_from_pixmap. Update drivers to the latest Nvidia drivers and also update your Xorg to 7.2. Xorg 7.2 RC2 has lots of bugs.

When I reach the desktop, I run beryl-manager and select beryl as the window manager (or reload it). Then everything works quite well, at least until next reboot.

I gotta to re-up this post.
I have the same problem as the thread starter, and i can't solve it yet.

Environment: graphic card : Nvidia 6600 (driver 96.31)
beryl : svn packages (0.2.0)

Could someone tell me that is this a problem of my graphic card or beryl svn bug?
I can run beryl-manager successfully after login as root.
So i think the white cube problem of my user account might be that i put "beryl" and "beryl-manager" into the startup-session list.
So could anyone tell me that what can i do to enter the Desktop using user account after white cube and then i can go to fix startup-session list.

Hi,

in beryl settings manager, there's an option "sync to vblank" in the general options tab. Make sure that it's unchecked (disabled).

Excuse me, are you said to me?

If is, that I can't get to my user desktop, so i couldn't change any GUI settings.
I wonder if it has some command.

Since I get the exact same effect on my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (a white cube, although interestingly enough the drop shadows are just visible if I manage to open a window) I would say it's more likely to be a problem with Beryl than a problem with your nVidia card. Compiz never exhibits this problem either.

yes, that might be beryl's but, so did solve this white cube problem?
if yes, how did you do?I really have no idea recently, i tried many ways.

No, no solution. I used compiz instead.