Beryl options and nvidia

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/5/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
> > There is one small issue however: Before a menu window is filled with
> > content, there may appear some artifacts in the window background. These
> > disappear if I use the --force-nvidia option, but then UI responsiveness
> > is distintively slower and tvtime does not run smoothly anymore.
> > Is this is a known issue?
>
> There are known problems with the current nVidia drivers and the use of
> Compiz/Beryl, secondary to the current incomplete implementation of
> texture_from_pixmap (TFP) required for compositing. Based upon the

incomplete in what way?

> present timeline since nVidia was made aware of these issues (> 2
> months), a fix appears to be a low priority for them and their official
> line is that they are still "investigating the problem".  Taken
> literally, that would suggest that they have not yet even identified the
> problem, as opposed to "we are investigating possible solutions".

And you know this how?

>
> Even more interesting is that their beta driver web page at:
>
>    http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html
>
> appears to be now totally blank save the header graphic, presuming that
> there is not a server problem.

It doesn't look blank to me.  And i'm not sure why you'd want a beta
driver when it was replaced with a newer non-beta several weeks ago.


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