Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

Travis Fraser travis at snowpatch.net
Sun May 6 00:33:22 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 01:29 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 06/05/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> > On May 6 Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
> >
> > > On FC6, KDE, with the Radeon driver for my 256MB X1400 video card.
> > >
> > > When clicking on the Beryl icon, one is presented with the choice of
> > > window managers: Beryl, Metacity, or Kwin. I cannot select Beryl. When
> > > I do, the screen flickers as if it's starting, but then I get either
> > > Metacity or Kwin, whichever is set as the default. I do not know where
> > > to begin troubleshooting, and googling the problem has not found any
> > > other similar incidents. Where should I begin? Thanks.
> >
> > As with any other gui software that's crashing/being unstable, run it from
> > a command line and see what errors it spits out. It's quite helpful :)
> >
> 
> Thanks. This:
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> led me to googling this:
> [root at localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep direct
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> direct rendering: No
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> So I see that I need to get direct rendering running. One page
> suggested that if I have an Intel motherboard then I should add the
> line "Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"" to xorg.conf, but I'm not sure
> if I have an Intel motherboard (Dell E1505 laptop).
> 
> Interestingly, when I try to update kmod-fglrx yum wants to downgrade it:
> Installing:
>  kmod-fglrx              i686       8.34.8-3.2.6.20_1.2944.fc6  livna
>            246 k
> Removing:
>  kmod-fglrx              i686       8.36.5-3.2.6.20_1.2944.fc6
> installed         763 k
> 
> How would you suggest I proceed? Thanks in advance.
Are you using the radeon xorg driver or the ATI driver? I don't think
the radeon driver supports DRI for your video card.
-- 
Travis Fraser <travis at snowpatch.net>




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