Beryl install - Kubuntu Feisty and Nvidia
Hi All,
I've gotten myself a tricked-out new Intel quad-core desktop systems. I've gotten the Kubuntu 7.04 beta installed and running successfully. I would like to get Beryl running. I've read both the Ubuntu and Beryl guides and still cannot get it. My video card is an eVGA GeForce 8800GTS w/ 640 MB of video RAM and I have a 30" Dell LCD wide screen monitor. I am running the latest 9755 Nvidia drivers (the drivers in the repository are too old to recognize the 8800 so I had to install by hand from the Nvidia bin file). The problem is that Beryl installs OK and I can start the beryl-manager and emerald, however none of the desktop effects actually work. For instance I do Alt+Scrollwheel to change the opacity of the active window, but nothing happens. Or I try ctrl+alt+left mouse to bring up the desktop cube, but again, nothing happens. I'm going to paste my Xorg.conf file below. Does anyone know what I'm missing here? Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig |
Which window manager have you selected to use from the Berly menu ?
Sounds like its still using the default kwin or metacity. |
Also, the only change I had to make to xorg.conf from a default config was add:
Code:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" |
DaveQB, thanks for the advice. That was indeed the problem. However, I ran into the unfortunate fact that that my video card can't do direct rendering on 2560x1600 resolution. I tried bumping the resolution down to 1920x1200 in xorg.conf, which got beryl started but it just froze at a white screen and more or less locked up the entire system.
I think I'm going to give up for the moment, as I don't need fancy effects that badly :-). I might look at it again when I have a bit more time. Thanks again for the advice! |
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I hear you on that one. Took me 3 goes over about 4 months to get Beryl working for me. Its just not a priority. NB my laptop with an Intel 950 and a fresh install of Edgy worked right off the bat. |
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