Xorg 7.2 beryl problem on i945GM

Vince jhary at unsane.co.uk
Tue Jul 17 11:06:25 UTC 2007


Glad to hear beryl is working for you, but sorry to hear you have the
emerald issue too. I assumed it was due to me not recompiling a glib/gtk
dependancy somwhere in a portupgrade.

Vince

Ganbold wrote:
> Only problem so far is emerald crashes sometimes and windows' titlebars
> disappear.
> 
> Ganbold
> 
> 
> Vince wrote:
>> Ganbold wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sorry, posted to wrong list before.
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble running beryl on laptop with 945GM card. I have
>>> current machine:
>>>
>>> devil# uname -an
>>> FreeBSD devil.micom.mng.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jul
>>> 10 10:44:42 ULAT 2007
>>> root at devil.micom.mng.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEVIL  i386
>>> devil#
>>>
>>> Xorg is updated to 7.2.
>>>
>>> Now when I try to run beryl-manager a window becomes a white screen and
>>> I can't do anything, although mouse moves.
>>> I tried to look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/, but couldn't
>>> find anything.
>>> Where can I find instructions/howto about running Xorg+beryl/compiz on
>>> FreeBSD (with i945GM graphics)?
>>>     
>>
>> Hi Ganbold,
>> 	I have a i945GM chipset in my laptop and have beryl running with only
>> minor issues ;)
>> 	My rather messy xorg.conf is available at
>> http://unsane.co.uk/~jhary/xorg.conf
>>
>> I use the the 915resolution port with the following options in rc.conf
>> i915resolution_enable="YES"
>> i915resolution_modes="5c"
>> i915resolution_width="1440"
>> i915resolution_height="900"
>>
>> FreeBSD prawn.unsane.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Fri Jul
>> 13 11:39:09 BST 2007
>> toor at prawn.unsane.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRAWN7ULE  i386
>>
>>
>> I have had issues in the past but they seem to have mainly cleared.
>> emerald crashes from time to time (I think that may have been an issue
>> with me upgradeing my ports though,) but otherwise beryl seems pretty
>> stable for me. I run beryl with xfce4. All I did was install the beryl
>> (and related) port(s) then ran beryl from a xterm in xfce4, after which
>> xfce4 took care of having beryl as the windows manager.
>> 	Hope this helps somehow.
>>
>> Vince
>>
>>
>>   
>>> I tried with following xorg config:
>>> ...
>>> Section "Module"
>>>        Load  "extmod"
>>>        Load  "record"
>>>        Load  "dbe"
>>>        Load  "glx"
>>>        Load  "GLcore"
>>>        Load  "xtrap"
>>>        Load  "dri"
>>>        Load  "freetype"
>>>        Load  "type1"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Device"
>>>        ### Available Driver options are:-
>>>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>>>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>>>        ### [arg]: arg optional
>>>        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "ColorKey"                  # <i>
>>>        #Option     "CacheLines"                # <i>
>>>        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
>>>        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"              # <i>
>>>        #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
>>>        Identifier  "Card0"
>>>        Driver      "i810"
>>>        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
>>>        BoardName   "Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics
>>> Controller"
>>>        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
>>>
>>>        Option "ForceBIOS" "1280x1024=1280x800"
>>> #        Option "ForceBIOS" "1280x1024=1440x900"
>>>        VideoRam    131072
>>>
>>>        Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
>>> #        Option      "DRI"     "true"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Screen"
>>>        Identifier "Screen0"
>>>        Device     "Card0"
>>>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>>
>>>        DefaultDepth 24
>>>
>>> #    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
>>> #    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
>>> #    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>>>
>>> #    Option         "AIGLX" "True"
>>>
>>>        SubSection "Display"
>>>                Modes     "1280x800"
>>> #               Modes     "1280x1080"
>>> #               Modes     "1440x900"
>>>                Viewport   0 0
>>>                Depth     24
>>>        EndSubSection
>>>
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     1
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     4
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     8
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     15
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     16
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>> #       SubSection "Display"
>>> #               Viewport   0 0
>>> #               Depth     24
>>> #       EndSubSection
>>>
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "DRI"
>>>    Mode 0666
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Extensions"
>>>    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
>>> EndSection
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Ganbold
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> 
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