On Saturday 20 January 2007 00:31, Jan Stępień wrote: > After launching X server with this setting it results in using Mesa > instead of fglrx, which means NO direct rendering, as proved by glxinfo. > Beryl cannot be launched because of lack of DRI. > > If I turn composite off, the X server is driven by fglrx, which gives me > direct rendering and Beryl's refusal to start because of lack of > composite extension. > > It's all quite suspicious, taking into account fact that Radeons are > listed at the website above as video cards able of running AIGLX. But > maybe only on FOSS drivers...? > It might be a proprietary drive issue. I use an intel chipset - composite on, direct rendering, AIGLX and Beryl all working together. Just as the wiki tells you to do.
> Afterwards I've downloaded xlaunch. When trying to launch an app (in > this case armyops) starting xlaunch in a terminal in an existing X > server the screen blacks out, probably trying to launch new X session > and suddenly restarts GDM, meanwhile killing my original session. > > I've also tried to use xlaunch in a text console having my previous X > server turned on. Results are the same. > > Have you got any suggestions? > Try turning off GDM, logging in via console and then running startx. Then from inside that xserver use xlaunch to start the game, see if the results are any different. Xlaunch works perfectly for me from within KDE or enlightenment, although I've never had GDM running (or even installed) on this machine. - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< >---- Miles Militis Fons ----< -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
