beryl on freebsd

[Mario Lobo]

On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Michael Hauber wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 August 2007 11:06:47 am Reid Linnemann proclaimed:
> >> Written by Dan Sikorsky on 08/16/07 09:40>>
> >>
> >>> Is this guide OK?
> >>> even if i dont have an nvidia chipset?
> >>> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-47986.html
> >>
> >> Well, you don't need to use git to fetch the xorg code, xorg 7.2 is now
> >> in ports. Since you won't be using the nvidia driver, you don't need
> >> compat_5x enabled. I didn't need to enable any options in the Screen
> >> section with my i845, but I did need options "composite" and "RENDER"
> >> enabled in the Extensions section.
> >
> > I know this thread is a little dated, but this is the link I used as a
> > reference while trying to get beryl working with kde on my laptop...
> >
> > I'm running KDE 3.5.7 on xorg 7.2 on FreeBSD 6.2-Stable.
> >
> > dmesg yields:
> > drm0: <ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
> > 0x48000000-0x4fffffff,0x40300000-0x4030ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> > info: [drm] AGP at 0x60000000 256MB
> > info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524
> >
> > The only difference is that I'm trying to get it to work with the KDE
> > desktop rather than the Gnome desktop.
> >
> > I've followed the steps in the link.  When I try to load Beryl however, I
> > get a light-grey screen.  I can rotate the cube, but it's all grey
> > (except for the "gems" at the top and bottom).
> >
> > I'm perplexed, but I don't think it's a problem with Beryl (because of
> > the rotation and the gems displaying at top and bottom of the cube)...  
> > Is there a trick to get beryl to work with KDE on FreeBSD?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
>
> You should post this question on PC-BSD forums since PC-BSD 1.4 uses
> Beryl as a default window manager on the KDE desktop.
> Installing PC-BSD would be also the quickest and easiest way to get
> fully functional KDE with Beryl as a window manager.
> Have fun
> Predrag
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Try starting X with a .xinitrc like this:

emerald &
beryl-manager &
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde


Don't forget to put DBUS_ENABLE="YES" on /etc/rc.conf


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