Beryl options and nvidia

[alan]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> On 1/5/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
>> 
>> > I have beryl running with nvidia prop. drivers with the following
>> > options:
>> > beryl --use-cow --force-aiglx --skip-gl-yield
>> > There are now problems with black windows etc... that may appear with
>> > other options. The X server is running with increased priority (set by
>> > using schedtool), so there responsiveness is good running tvtime
>> > smoothly even under system load.
>> 
>> How much video memory do you have?  Sounds like you are running out of
>> texture memory.
>
> Yes, that's the bug.

I am experiencing the same problem.  It is a royal pain as it is on my 
laptop.  I can't replace the video card without replacing the whole 
machine.  (It is an HP zv5200z AMD64 3700+ with an nVIDIA 440go video 
chipset with 64megs of ram (split 32 dedicated and 32 shared, which 
sucks).)

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