beryl problems

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:44 +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> > Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >> Ivan Voras wrote:
> >>> Ivan Voras wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/beryl/libthumbnail.so: Undefined
> >>>> symbol "strndup"
> >>> Ok, ldd doesn't report anything missing in the .so, but there's no
> >>> strndup in my libc (releng_6).
> >> Use the settings manager to disable the thumbnail plugin and try to
> >> start beryl again. This is not the right fix but at least you might get
> >> it to work.
> > 
> > It worked for starting it, but I only get empty white featureless
> > windows when I start beryl :(
> > 
> > Maybe some other graphic card will help... Are all AGP nVidia cards
> > supported by the binary non-free driver?
> 
> What's your current graphic card? I had troubles with a Geforce4 and
> recent drivers (but it was crashing not showing white windows).
> 
> The white windows syndrom affects only Intel chipsets AFAIK.
> 

It definitely affects radeons as well.  Since it's a problem with the
glx code in the xserver, I imagine it affects all the open source
drivers.

Adam