Wikipedia:

According to the Beryl FAQ, Beryl ran acceptably well on a GeForce 3/Intel i855/Radeon 7500, 256MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz processor. Version 7.1 of Xorg and a recent version of Mesa 3D was recommended. [1]

Are you saying that Beryl can acceptably run on eeepc?

It must be pretty slow though.

-polo-

@maddocks

Thanks, I've been looking for something like this- especially for stock xandros. I will be trying compiz-fusion tonight. Has anyone tried yet? The process is essentially the same, other than different packages.

2GB will work, but the current kernel for the eee only supports up to 1GB. there is a thread here where someone rebuilt the kernel to use 2GB.

ok, i tried beryl as maddocks described

1. all emerald has shadows, and its all black,
2. 3D cube works fine
3. windows content can't display properly, probably means graphic card isn't good enough..

Last edited by clevin (2007-11-15 12:40:28 pm)

So to get rid of the shadows go into the emerald theme manager go into edit themes , then Frame/Shadows bring the opacity for shadows to 0. I mentioned the windows wouldnt work until you set the advanced settings for beryl to what I specififed. After you do that windows render/work perfect!

From previous post "All of my windows where unresponsive and blank until I set the options in advanced beryl options to the following. rendering path = copy, Composite overlay window = cow, rendering platform = aiglx, binding automatic, rendering = indirect. That should get you going I would remove the repos we added except for the beryl one, also dont upgrade any packages with the debian repos enabled and dont install aquamarine it will hose your current install"

after tinkering with the emerald settings its always a good idea to goto the last tab and save the changes you have made. As for Compiz/fusion the only debs ive seen are for gutsy and the like with way to many lib upgrades required for my likes. I havent figured out a way to get gcc or the build-essentials installed without a libc upgrade which scares me. Im in the process of trying to install the stock distro to a bootable sdhc card to use as a testbed, all ive seen on the forums are ways to restore from sd I wanna boot from the sd using the stock distro besides most my stuff is from trial and error and I would prefer those writes to be on a cheap easily replacable card rather then the soldered in one.

If you like i could post my emerald theme its the base one without shadows. Also in response to running compiz/fusion on ubuntu, i installed ubuntu on the fastest 4gb sdhc card i could find and it wasnt nearly as responsive even when adding a swap partition

Last edited by maddocks (2007-11-16 11:06:47 am)

I had the same problem as addik (the white screen of death when starting beryl-manager).  I searched around, and it sounds like this is a common problem with beryl, but none of the suggested fixes helped me.

Is anyone else having the white screen show up after following maddocks' instructions?

Thanks

I tried the instructions you gave, everything worked very nice expect 2 things:

No matter what i tried the shadow borders on tool-tips wouldn't go away, and berly seemed to lag the EEE somewhat, would upgrading to 1 gig solve the lag?

Another interesting observation:

I looked at my /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers directory to see what drivers are present on the machine.  Here, I noticed that the file "i810_drv.so" is simply a symbolic link to intel_drv.so.  Is this the case on your system too, maddocks?

The intel_drv.so file is 293028 bytes and is dated 9/13.

Thanks

Another white screen bug here.  I can see things start to happen if I press ctrl-alt and an arrow key, but it's not working.  I didn't make it autostart, so it's no big deal, but would be nice to get working.

The bigger problem is that the power button doesn't bring up the shutdown dialog any more!  I use it a lot, so it seems that following these instructions broke it.  Any ideas?

edit - The power button came back.  But I've no idea why!  I tried a few reboots/power downs which didn't fix it, then it started working.

Last edited by barnesy (2007-11-21 5:33:01 am)

2 things white screens when i started with compiz then quinstorm then beryl was mostly caused by xgl which until recently was the only way to get ati drivers to work. Another problem with xgl is that the power down reboot buttons disappear.(which can be solved via a simpl hack) but it seems that sum of the problems people are having sound to similiar.

2nd on video playback playback will be choppy and the video will even be blank if the wrong video output module is chosen.

I do have 1gb of ram which i added very shortly after installing beryl but i never saw to much of a lag tho.

AIGLX should NOT be reported as diasabled mine reports
AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
the reason i use i810 for driver not intel is cuz I caint get intel to load the i915 dri module. The people who cant make it work get white screens etc. type
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep dri 
u should see
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
(II) intel(0): [drm] created "i915" driver at busid "pci:0000:00:02.0"
(II) intel(0): [dri] visual configs initialized
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so

if it doesnt mention AIGLX being enabled or it mentions xgl (dunno how that could happen accidentally but) then I would check xorg.conf again look in synaptic for any xgl related packages. Also people with white screens did you upgrade/downgrade or otherwise change your mesa packages?

Hi all,

I was tinkering with the beryl setup and also ends up with white screen of death (autostarts).
I am a linux noob so please can someone explain how to break the autostarting enabling me
to fix things ?

Cheers
travisdk