beryl/compiz freeze

[xanas3712]

Ok, this is my conf, which works fine when I'm running a 7800 GT but does not work with my 8800 GTS, so it should work for you with the 7300

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
    Load "i2c"
    Load "bitmap"
    Load "ddc"
    Load "int10"
    Load "vbe"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "drm"
    Load "glx"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "type1"
    SubSection "extmod"
         Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard1"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "microsoft"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse1"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "Auto"	# Auto detect
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "monitorx"
    HorizSync       31.5 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     40.0 - 150.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen 1"
    Device         "nvidia"
    Monitor        "monitorx"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true" #<---- is likely unneeded
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    #Option "backingstore" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Option "AIGLX" "false"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

[jchoi28]

henz, I didn't have fedora-xgl-settings and xgl-hardware-list installed.
I just installed them now, and ran gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl like you told me but I had to give one more argument: --set (option) or --auto, so I did gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl --auto but with this I can't even run X. I had to do gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl to get X working again.

xanas3712, thanks for the source. I tried that, but no good news.

One more thing, I tried 9631 driver also, but with this, I can't even start Beryl for there is no extension. And when I installed 9746 over it, the driver went back to 9631 everytime I rebooted, so I uninstalled 9631 and tried to installed 9746 from the base, but this didn't work. It only worked with any previous version of driver installed. So.. I installed 9742 again and then 9746 over it, now 9746 stays, but still freezes with Beryl. For this reason, I am suspecting that although it says the version is 9746 in the nvidia configuration window, maybe it isn't installed correctly.

[jchoi28]

I took a look inside /usr/lib64/xorg/modules directory.
I don't really know about xorg.conf but to me it makes sense that for all modules to work, there should be corresponding so file for each of them.
And since I have [Load "i2c", Load "bitmap" etc..] I should have libi2c.so, libbitmap.so, etc in the directory path specified in the xorg.conf file don't I? But there are several files I am missing and those files indeed show up on google.
Am I right about that I should have libbitmap.so, libfreetype.so, libtype1.so, libdrm.so files? (these are the files I don't have, but I have some others that are not listed in Section "Module").
And if so, where do I get these files?

[xanas3712]

Many of them appear to be in sub directories on my system

Here's my ls -l output of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Dec 21 17:55 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Dec 23 17:47 extensions
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Dec 23 17:32 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Dec 23 17:44 input
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  150520 Dec 23 17:32 libafb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  302848 Dec 23 17:32 libcfb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  122368 Dec 23 17:32 libcfb32.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   24680 Dec 23 17:32 libddc.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   53824 Dec 23 17:32 libexa.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  251704 Dec 23 17:32 libfb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   11080 Dec 23 17:32 libi2c.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  141168 Dec 23 17:32 libint10.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  138040 Dec 23 17:32 libmfb.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      25 Dec 21 17:55 libnvidia-wfb.so.1 -> libnvidia-wfb.so.1.0.9746
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  281280 Dec 21 17:55 libnvidia-wfb.so.1.0.9746
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  701696 Dec 23 17:32 libpcidata.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30104 Dec 23 17:32 libramdac.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1708880 Dec 23 17:32 libscanpci.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   24144 Dec 23 17:32 libshadow.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   27656 Dec 23 17:32 libshadowfb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   21848 Dec 23 17:32 libvbe.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   24840 Dec 23 17:32 libvgahw.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  279192 Dec 23 17:32 libwfb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  351400 Dec 23 17:32 libxaa.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  173120 Dec 23 17:32 libxf1bpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   95688 Dec 23 17:32 libxf4bpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5280 Dec 23 17:32 libxf8_16bpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  175128 Dec 23 17:32 libxf8_32bpp.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Nov 17 15:49 linux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Nov 17 15:49 multimedia

[henz]

Try suse 10.2

You would not be disappointed.