setting up beryl

[cj]

ok so how do i switch to XGL? everything by default on this system is AIGLX

--cj
> Hi CJ,
>
> You should run it with XGL, not with AIGLX. AIGLX does /not/ work ok 
> with ATI cards. The ati drivers do not support 
> glx_texture_from_pixmap. I had the exact same card (and it sucks 
> imho). At least, I don't think ATI has updated their drivers to 
> support this in the past few months. Cheers,
>
> Rutger
>
> On 8/13/07, *cj* <debiani386 at gmail.com <mailto:debiani386 at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Mario Vukelic wrote:
>     > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:50 -0600, cj wrote:
>     >
>     >> when i load it, it takes away my menu bars (the ones on the
>     >> top/bottom
>     >> of my screen) and it removes the window boarders.
>     >>
>     >
>     > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/InstallingBeryl
>     > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BerylOnFeisty
>     > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/BerylOnXgl
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     ok so i open the beryl-manager to change a setting (and it doesnt
>     matter
>     what setting, it always does this) and it crashes telling me that
>
>     "Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ': 0.0';
>     most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
>     the window manager."
>
>
>     i am 100% sure that my card is compatible because i run games on this
>     card that require aiglx and they work perfectly.
>
>     i am using an ATI radeon Xpress200. it handles any sort of gl oriented
>     program just fine except beryl
>
>     it also tells me that there is no composit extension. yet i have
>     libxcomposite1 downloaded and installed
>
>     --cj
>
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