beryl with nvidia crahs computer

[stinger_au]

Hi, i hope some one is able to help me, i just install beryl using this guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/Beryl
but now when i got to type beryl-manager all my windows a striped and my computer locks up
it says in the console that it could not find XGL and that it was looking for Nvidia it thens says that it found Nvidia but then locks up at that point

I don't know why else to do

I am running gentoo, new install and my system specs can be found here
http://users.monash.edu/~dbjon2/tag.txt

I hope some one is able to help me out

Here is my xorg.conf



Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
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 "samsung 931"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "Standard VGA"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#VideoRam 262144
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Identifier "* Generic VESA compatible"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Rightof"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024;1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5 - 64.3"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50.0 - 90"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "* Generic VESA compatible"
Monitor "samsung 931"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection

[sonicx]

i dont really know but.... have you installed xgl? xserver-xgl should be the package. that beryl stuff is not very stable yet. why not use kde 3.5.5 and xserver-xorg?

[stinger_au]

i am using KDE 3.5, well i was told that this was a nice one to install and that other people have been able to get it to work.

[TPG]

Please generate and attach nvidia-bug-report log.

[stinger_au]

Originally Posted by TPG

Please generate and attach nvidia-bug-report log.

I am not sure how to generate a nvidia-but-report ?

[zander]

@stinger_au: please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678.