fedora 7 and beryl trouble
 

every time I start beryl on fedora I bet a plain white screen and my cursor, and it stays like that. I'm using a nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] graphics card. and I installed beryl using the add/remove programs feature in Fedora. can anyone help me out?

I've got the same card and the same problem when I try to use the XGL option. To date I've tried many different suggestions and none has worked so far :( Everything works fine when I select the native support option.

think it could be a driver problem then?

It could be, I never had this problem when I was using the 7184 drivers. Not sure if there's any other FX5200 owners out there successfully running Beryl using GLX.

I have the 5200 card on this box running Fedora 7 and recently on Fedora Core 6 until the upgrade. I get my nvidia kernel modules from the Livna repo. The Livna repo keeps the kernel modules pretty close in sync with the release of newer kernel versions.

I was going to attach a partial screencapture of the nvidia settings server but don't see an option for that here. Maybe I'll place it on my photo site and link to it if anyones interested.

http://www.onlinephotographers.com/g...00_resized.jpg

Are you saying the white screen problem is a kernel issue? Would you mind posting your xorg.conf file so I can do a comparison check?

Here's my xorg.conf.
I have heard of the "whitescreen" problem and will go to the site where it was discussed and post back a link.

Edit: here's where the whitescreen issue has been discussed. I have seen it mentioned at other times and presume it has to do with hardware issues with certain Beryl releases.
White screen

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} if you find a solution please post it here =]

I made the changes to mirror your xorg.conf no difference. I disabled everything line by line (until my x-server refused to run) no difference.

With so many users, using different hardware and distros, yet having the same problem makes me think this is a Beryl issue.

Compiz works fine, hopefully (now that compiz & beryl have merged) this problem will be resolved.

Thanks Ryptyde for the .conf and the link :)

I am curious --- try the nivida-xconfig (obviosuly save off your xorg.conf before doing this)
Then restart X without beryl running on start, then run beryl
If you still have issue try running beryl with a stack trace hooked up to it, we can see what its doing

strace -e open beryl > /tmp/beryl_strace_open.out
and
strace beryl > /tmp/beryl_allstrace.out

I messed up my xorg.conf file while editing it using "vim" I made a back up before I started editing it but the x server no longer runs how can I get back into my hard drive to replace the xorg.conf file?

If you get a command promt, login as root then go to where you have your backup and then type:

cp xorg.conf <space> /etc/X11/xorg.conf

you will be asked if you want to overwrite answer 'yes' then type reboot.

ok thanks I got it working again =] that was a good learning experience for me >.<

nexus if its not too much trouble could you please tell me how you get compiz working?

I'm not familiar with your distro, but if you have a control centre that allows you to make system ( not your desktop ) changes, look if you have a hardware section. Have a look for a section to configure your 3D desktop.

I figured it out =] thanks for all your help =]