On 1/5/07, alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 1/5/07, alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Gérard Milmeister wrote: >> >> > I have beryl running with nvidia prop. drivers with the following >> > options: >> > beryl --use-cow --force-aiglx --skip-gl-yield >> > There are now problems with black windows etc... that may appear with >> > other options. The X server is running with increased priority (set by >> > using schedtool), so there responsiveness is good running tvtime >> > smoothly even under system load. >> >> How much video memory do you have? Sounds like you are running out of >> texture memory. > > Yes, that's the bug. I am experiencing the same problem. It is a royal pain as it is on my laptop. I can't replace the video card without replacing the whole machine. (It is an HP zv5200z AMD64 3700+ with an nVIDIA 440go video chipset with 64megs of ram (split 32 dedicated and 32 shared, which sucks).)
The workaround is to disable composite. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org