Xorg 7.2 beryl problem on i945GM

[Ganbold]

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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