omg man im soo angry becuse of this shit. i updated everything i had, except beryl because i couldnt get the tar balls working i kept getting an error so i just used the one directly from the repo. so baisically i followed everything opensuse had to say. I start, and, WHITESCREEN! so i killall beryl nd log on, i reapply compiz nd took off beryl from my software manager. i restart nd theres no kdm logon it takes me to terminal. i log on, startx. and DEATH TO MY X.org.

NVIDIA Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If you continue to encounter problems, Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

AIGLX : DRI module not loaded.

nd more im on my laptop so im typing what im seeing.

First of all, please calm down in order to solve this quickly.
I still insist that you should use the installer from nVidia; in order to do so type from a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 if you're in X, login as root):
and wait until it has installed. Afterwards you can start X with and you can follow the opensuse guide at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl under the "Beryl with nVidia drivers - no Xgl/AIGLX" section. To disable XGL (you should, since nVidia/AIGLX seems faster at the moment), type the following (as root again):
, go to the end of the file and replace (hit I, Del over Xgl, not backspace) Xgl with Xorg, hit Esc and hit ZZ (Shift-Z twice). If you do this, both beryl (the easier solution) and compiz (harder to configure) will work after a restart of X with typed from a console again.

I hope this will help you; ask if you need more specific instructions.

I already had the newest NVIDIA driver installed, i had the x64 one it was a different link. So i downloaded nd when i was installing i got an error:

ERROR : File' /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so' is not a symbolic link.

I hit ok, it proceeded. Next i restarted x

all it did was bring me back to the Ctrl ALT F1 console

i hit ctrl alt f7 nd it went to a blank screen with blinking on top.

i restarted, it froze twice.

third time it booted, i logged in through console nd hit startx
i got

xauth: creating new authority file /home/Tsilo/.serverauth.4528

giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.






Im gonna reinstall suse, is n e thing gonna happen if i uncheck xgl nd compiz. so i can not worry about them tangling up later on when i put beryl???

i installed beryl and everything seemed to go smoothly after I totally ditched using YUM and APT, and just went ahead and used rug to install eveything from the command line.

However, now that I restarted X and it goes into my desktop but the environment is real unstable. The screen does not refresh and it runs really slow. I have a 128mb Gefore 5200 FX card which is greater than a GeForce 4 series card and should technically work.

I am going to try to install the newest nvidia driver in resuce mode, running a fsck right now to make sure there is no corruption anywhere before I proceed.

anyone have any suggestions?

hmm wget does not work in rescue mode I am going to repair the install of the OS10.2 DVD and see what happens. I am guessing that the driver install was botched and I didn't notice before I ran all the beryl stuff. I really want to get this to work.

Did you install the drivers using the .sh file (shar)? These drivers are supposed to avoid all the problems when installing.

In general, you only need to reinstall suse (or any linux distribution) if the RPM database is corrupted (even then, there is a way to restore it). Unless you have forced many packages, reinstalling won't solve your problems (there are exceptions to this though). Also, it isn't necessary to remove xgl and compiz, since I have both installed and can choose Xgl or AIGLX without rebooting on my PC.

This is weird...in sax2 I cannot enable hardware acceleration on my Gefore 5200 FX

okay i install beryl to the T of the wiki, and it works, but it runs like crap and crashes my system every time. I am running the same nvidia card as mentioned previously in my other posts.

I can not enable 3D acceleration, and the screen does not refresh.

any ideas?

I do use Beryl on OpenSuSE 10.2, installed via Yast2. I have major problems with video and flash (firefox freezes everything, which is not the case when I switch to E17 or XFCE, or even if I Beryl-manager back to KWin, anytime I get on a page with flash advertisement or worse, with flash useful content...). I cannot watch a video, since my screen blanks and cpu goes wild, still don't know why. Some games work fine, but most behave strangely (some display their content out of the windows supposed to hold it). Somehow, I put up with that, since going back to "normal" KDE is a pain. At first I saw Beryl as the eye-candy of eye-candies, but I now believe it does improve (properly tuned) my productivity. Nonetheless, It is annoying that I have to kill Xorg a few times before it gets back to normal when things go awry... Maybe something is wrong in my starting sequence? Anyway, I have put E17 as "backup" for Beryl, and XFCE as backup for E17, so I rest assured that I won't lose my work

You say you can't enable 3D acceleration. I encountered the same problem, which, in my case, came from Nvidia (mine is Ge6800). Yast2 keeps wishing to update his driver to 97XX, but if it does, since I have a kernel that wants an adapter for 96XX, I can't have 3D acceleration anymore. So, I got back to 96XX, "sax2 -n 0=nvidia"-ed, and I keep an alert eye on any update yast2 asks me for...

thanks for the suggestions I will give them a try

another weird thing is, once I installed beryl my wifi card no longer works in my laptop.

I think I am just going to get a new machine at work (amd 64 radeon video chip) and try it out because it just doesn't want to run at all for me on my current rig.

I will try disabling xgl as well.

Haven't been using openSuSE for very long (less than a week now) and Beryl is working like a TOP! I've mostly used, and still use, Slackware so I do have that "edge" (i.e. I can use a terminal or init 3) on most "newbies" to a distro. And please I'm not trying to be mean or offend anyone with that remark :).

First I have an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1 GB DDR 3200 RAM. I'm using an XFX GeForce 6200 8x AGP card and here's how I did it. BTW, after I did most of the "hand editing" I found there was a YaST way to do most of what I did by hand.

1. Downloaded and installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA.

2. Opened a terminal, logged in as root, edited the /etc/inittab and set the default runlevel to 3 and rebooted. Logged in as root and installed the NVIDIA drivers.

3. Next ran SaX2 -r -m 0=nvidia (Don't worry that you can't enable 3D support, if you are using the nvidia driver it's enabled)

4. Edited /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager as follows:
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="Xgl"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo"

5. Changed inittab back to runlevel 5 and rebooted. Saw the NVIDIA splash screen and got to my KDE desktop.

6. Used THIS howto to install Beryl with Xgl. Only thing is I could never get the "starting automatically with KDE" to work acceptably. Using their suggestions it was SLOW and prone to crashing. So I just added a /usr/bin/beryl-manager to my .bashrc and then load the window manager from the icon in the tray. My next move is to remove that from .bashrc and ONLY do the symlink in .kde/Autostart to /usr/bin/beryl-manager and NOT to /usr/bin/beryl to see if I get the same results.

Following these steps I can now do This. Please note this video is about 30 MB so download at your own risk. YMMV

HTH,
MMYoung

Well...it was pretty damn cool while it lasted!! I actually got beryl to run tonight -- for about 2 hours.

Then it just started crashing. Wouldn't start at all. I tried re-installing everything (I'm too n00b to know what else to do!). No dice.

Man, talk about excitement and disappointment!!

Alright so i got back some of the feedback from the console on whats happenning with my beryl.
For one thing Suse updated their repository and they updated their instructions. They seemed to work, but its still crashing.

Baisically i start it up beryl manager starts but i have to launch beryl from the manager. Yesterday i had to change my xorg to composite = 0. And it worked and when i restarted it didnt come up again it stopped working nd started crashing.

So today i tried it out nd the console told me that composite was 0. So i went back nd enabled it. I went nd started beryl nd it worked but it had to X's nd minimize buttons on window manager. so i reloaded nd it crashed i got this error.

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

And just for your info when i start beryl i get this, seems fine thoughRelaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
**************************************************************
* Beryl system compatibility check *
**************************************************************

Detected xserver : NVIDIA

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension : passed
Checking for RandR extension : passed
Checking for XSync extension : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig : passed
Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap : passed
Checking for non power of two texture support : passed
Checking maximum texture size : passed (4096x4096)

Reloading options


N e 1 know whats going on????




Update...

Just noticed what happens really weird...

When i open run beryl in console.. it works till i close the console, i close the console nd the window manager closes..

Update Again...

I reloaded my window manager after i enabled composite it worked, i restarted nd it worked... only thing now thats wrong with beryl is that its slow this is probly due to NVIDIA drivers

The wobbly windows nd cube are extremely smooth but my window minimize,maximize,close,open are glitchy as hell. n e 1 have suggestions... im running a nvidia 6800gt computer deffinately has enough memory nd power hopefully i can fix some settings

Minimize and maximize are really slow, but that's a beryl and compiz issue. There was a compiz mailing list entry by David Reveman (i think he's in charge of the beryl project, apologies if I misspell the name) describing a possible fix to the issue. If this helps anyone with Nvidia drivers, here's all the changes I added to my default Sax configured Xorg.conf:
1.)Enable composite extension.
2.)Add: Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

After I added these two things into my xorg.conf, both nvidia's and xorg's aiglx worked. If you're wondering, why I didn't add Option "AIGLX" "true" and Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true", these are enabled by default.

Hope this helps!

OpenSUSE 10.2. I use Beryl with Nvidia Geforce Go 7400 on Gnome. Worked well out of the box, (crashed once while printing)