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Hi, I have been running beryl 2.0 very nicely on my ibm t43p laptop (ati graphics card) for a while now. Even managed to get dual screen running on it too (by limiting the total width of the two screens to 2048). However, I have two "profiles", one, where I am in the office, I use the dual screen setup - a custom xorg.conf forcing the two monitors to 1024x768 (as my graphics card only has a maximum texture size of 2048 - "glxinfo -l grep TEXTURE_SIZE). When I am anywhere else, I need to use just the one screen on the laptop, which has a native resolution of 1400x1050. For which needs another xorg.conf not limiting it to 1024x768. When I boot the system in single display mode, the xorg.conf is still hard-coded for the low resolution of 1024x768 and dual screens, as such, I manually drop down into the command line every time to switch between two different xorg's. Is there a way of automatically querying the monitors, before X loads up proper, and based on the outcome, replacing the xorg.conf with the one best suited (i.e. a "single screen" xorg.conf if only one monitor is found, a "dual screen" xorg.conf if an external is found etc). I know with aticonfig you can query which monitors are connected, but as this can only be run once X has loaded, it does seem a bit redundant....

I added the cooker repositories, downloaded the la ora kwin package, (it also updated glibc i think) and removed the cooker repositories, put back the official ones. Problem solved!

On the "official" mirrors, or on cooker? I have updated everything using cooker in the past, but overall it seems to do more harm than good...

Hi, From mandriva 2007, mandriva introduced the la ora theme. I have looked at screenshots of the gnome version and it looks lovely, however I am running the One kde cd, and to be honest, the theme looks a little off (the window decoration is a pixel or two off the borders). I have attached a screenshot of what im trying to describe, is there an updated la ora version I can download / compile to make it look better?

Hello! I have been using beryl 0.1.4 in the backports repository of mandriva 2007 one official for ages now. I had to do some java programming, and had issues with the java windows (everything was grey). This is a known problem (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509038) . So I disabled beryl and xgl and had the regular kde windowmanager. However, on trying to renable it, the system hangs on trying to initialise kde, I get a blue window with the mouse cursor in a "busy" state, and thats it. After looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, the only related errors i can see towards the bottom end are the following: (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE)AIGLX: reverting to software rendering However, I do not want to use aiglx, (i am using the ati fglrx binary driver) and I believe i have manually enabled xgl correctly (in /etc/sysconfig/xgl - it now reads xgl=yes). Any ideas? it must be something simple, I just switched it off for a moment, now can't get it back on!!

hi, I used to be able to run beryl fine from mandriva cooker (when it was on about version 1.1.3) now it has upgraded to version 1.99 xgl loads, as I have the rotating cube functionality, but everything, i mean everything is white. I can't see the desktop or the taskbar, its like its just drawing a solid white cube. Are there some additional command line options / arguments I can try? Im working with the fglrx drivers, so using xgl (not aiglx)... [moved from Software by spinynorman]

i have been playing a bit more now, and seem to have sorted the problem, it wasn't kdesu's fault at all. Seems like when i installed mandriva one 2007 and added the "cooker" repositories and upgraded (urpmi --auto-select) it upgraded most things but there were a few packages that wouldn't update. These were due to some existing packages not being up-to-date yet either. So the erroneous one was kdebase-common. I "uprme kdebase-common" (which isn't a good idea, in normal circumstances!) and then did "urpmi --auto-select" again, and there were no more issues in the upgrading process. I had to do "urpmi k3b konsole" immediately too as they were removed with kdebase-common. A long story, but the short of it is kdesu is working again now. It was just that the upgrade didnt go as smooth as it should have originally.

hi, thanks for answering! I have checked, and i have /bin/true. I am unsure how to setup su and its priveliges, how would i do this?

hi, i have just updated my system to mandriva cooker (using repositories from easyurpmi) however im not getting a strange problem, whenever i use kdesu (like, when configuring net_applet or going into the mandriva control centre) it keeps telling me "wrong password". If i am in a terminal, I can go in as "su" and the password works perfectly. How can i "reset" the password used for kdesu?

hi, i have been using mandriva cooker for a while now without problem, but all of a sudden, when i try installing the latest ati drivers using XFdrake, it downloads the packages fine from the repositories but i end up with the error "No such pseudo-hash field "raw" at /usr/lib/libDrakX/Xconfig/xfree.pm line 574." at the command line. I had a look at the line 574 in the file and it reads "map { if_(lc($_->{name}) eq lc($Section) && (!$o_when || $o_when->($_->{l})), $_->{l}) } @{$raw_X->{raw}};" Unfortunately I don't understand what this means, nor how it prevents the drivers from being installed correctly. Any ideas?

Hi, im running the mandria one 2007 with much success, i have ati drivers installed (the fglrx ones) from the repositories at easyurpmi. I added the easyurpmi repositories for mandriva 2007 official (not cooker). I have been trying to get beryl working, the alternative to compiz, running on top of Xgl. I have followed the instructions on www.beryl-project.org and added the backports for main and contrib. Beryl has installed fine, and i can run "beryl-manager" from the command line to get the red gem icon in the system tray area. However, when I try to change the manager to beryl, i get the followingL $ QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (-3) ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success and these critical messages just keep on going and going. I have it set to fallback to kwin (yup, im running kde) which it does so, so at least i have window decorations. The default compiz still works, but I am interested in beryl as it has some really cool features (i did try it before from cooker, but cooker caused some issues in upgrading other packages!) thanks for any help!

Hi, im running an ibm t43p laptop with an ati graphics card, i have the official fglrx drivers installed 8.28.8 (the ones from easyurpmi) and have just recently updated my system with urpmi --auto-update. I have a problem now where xgl isnt really working. I have set it with drak3d, and it seems to be "on" but not "activated", by this i mean when I run fgl_glxgears it gives me the expected message "Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":93.0"" indicating that XGL is using the 3D, however, I have no wobbly windows or anything, its my normal theme as if i turned off xgl with drak3d. Is there any config files i should reset before running drak3d to set up xgl? or does compiz 0.3.2 just not work too good? I think i was running 0.0.13 before this happened... [moved from Software by spinynorman]

A strange problem, I am having difficulty determing what is causing it. Sometimes when I boot i get the bootsplash (press "esc" for verbose mode" and it hangs, in the verbose mode, i can see the most recent text reads "setting hostname localhost: [ ok ]". The only way i can seem to unfreeze it is crtc-c which, of course, messes up the boot sequence and i need to restart the computer again. If it helps, the option that does normally come next when everything works is "checking root file system [ ok]". Any ideas why the computer may be hanging? I get this problem on two computers (a dell inspiron 9100 and an ibm t43p)

I have read into this problem a bit more, and it seems this combination isn't possible on ati hardware at the moment, with the current 8.29.6 drivers. xinerama doesnt have composite multiscreen for both displays, and its a similar problem for ati. If i get this solved in the future, i'll be sure to post something.

i tried playing around with /etc/cpufreqd.conf, and saw the default for the "ac profile" w as max performance. I changed it to ondemand, rebooted, and it is working fine now (800mhz most of the time, spikes to 2.1 wh en it needs to be!). Im not sure if i can change the values with klaptop properly yet, but it works the way i want it now, so time to leave well alone! Thanks for your help! *update* Seems like it was still doing funny things, I couldnt figure out why. I actually deleted (rather renamed) the original /etc/cpufreq.conf and this seemed to sort it out properly. I havent had any issues for over a week and klaptop is switching cpu frequencys nicely now.