beryl & ati x1600

Chris Malton chrism at cjsoftuk.dyndns.org
Mon Jun 11 06:45:15 UTC 2007


Two things with your XF86 config!

#1) Composite is disabled on the 1-before -last line
#2) You have TWO devices!

I think you might need to do a funny reconfig at some point!

Wait for info though!

Chris

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using kubuntu 7.04 on an hp laptop with an ati x1600 video card, and I'd 
> like to enable beryl. Now I've installed all the packages required as 
> specified in the wiki 
> http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_ATI
> and the one available on the ubuntu site but I cannot get beryl working. It 
> always switches to the "backup" window manager and in the terminal where I 
> run beryl-manager I can see:
> 
> [luca at fluca:~]$ beryl-manager
> [luca at fluca:~]$ Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
>   Major opcode:  146
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
>   Major opcode:  146
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> [luca at fluca:~]$ kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
> /usr/bin/compiz.real: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
> /usr/bin/compiz.real: Failed to manage screen: 0
> /usr/bin/compiz.real: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
> Window manager warning: last_user_time (23068781) is greater than comparison 
> timestamp (3443527).  This most likely represents a buggy client sending 
> inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.  Trying to work 
> around...
> Window manager warning: 0x2400007 (Adept Noti) appears to be one of the 
> offending windows with a timestamp of 23068781.  Working around...
> Window manager warning: last_focus_time (23068781) is greater than comparison 
> timestamp (3443557).  This most likely represents a buggy client sending 
> inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.  Trying to work 
> around...
> 
> (here I tried also to select compiz as window manager).
> If I run beryl I get:
> [luca at fluca:~]$ beryl
> **************************************************************
> * Beryl system compatiblity check                            *
> **************************************************************
> 
> Detected xserver                                : AIGLX
> 
> Checking Display :0.0 ...
> 
> Checking for XComposite extension               : failed
> 
> No composite extension
> beryl: No composite extension
> 
> that requires to enable composite extension, but if I do that I still don't 
> get beryl working and moreover I cannot get the 3d acceleration working (or 
> at least all screensavers run very slowly!). The following is my xorg.conf 
> file, does anybody has a clue about how to use beryl?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
> 

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