Beryl options and nvidia

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/5/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> > On 1/5/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> 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.


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