On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 01:29 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 06/05/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On May 6 Dotan Cohen did spake thusly: > > > > > On FC6, KDE, with the Radeon driver for my 256MB X1400 video card. > > > > > > When clicking on the Beryl icon, one is presented with the choice of > > > window managers: Beryl, Metacity, or Kwin. I cannot select Beryl. When > > > I do, the screen flickers as if it's starting, but then I get either > > > Metacity or Kwin, whichever is set as the default. I do not know where > > > to begin troubleshooting, and googling the problem has not found any > > > other similar incidents. Where should I begin? Thanks. > > > > As with any other gui software that's crashing/being unstable, run it from > > a command line and see what errors it spits out. It's quite helpful :) > > > > Thanks. This: > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > > led me to googling this: > [root@localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep direct > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > direct rendering: No > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > [root@localhost ~]# > > So I see that I need to get direct rendering running. One page > suggested that if I have an Intel motherboard then I should add the > line "Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"" to xorg.conf, but I'm not sure > if I have an Intel motherboard (Dell E1505 laptop). > > Interestingly, when I try to update kmod-fglrx yum wants to downgrade it: > Installing: > kmod-fglrx i686 8.34.8-3.2.6.20_1.2944.fc6 livna > 246 k > Removing: > kmod-fglrx i686 8.36.5-3.2.6.20_1.2944.fc6 > installed 763 k > > How would you suggest I proceed? Thanks in advance. Are you using the radeon xorg driver or the ATI driver? I don't think the radeon driver supports DRI for your video card. -- Travis Fraser <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
