beryl problems

[Florent Thoumie]

Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 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.

Xorg developers claim it's a beryl issue. I've spent some time reading
bug reports and forums and it's not obvious (to me) who's doing
something wrong so I haven't committed any so-called fix.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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