Beryl options and nvidia

[Chris Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lonni J Friedman
> Sent: 05 January 2007 10:08 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: Beryl options and nvidia
> 
> 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.

If you have problems with beryl, try compiz. The reason being is that compiz
has better memory management than beryl (technically, beryl requires 2 full
pixmaps per client window, compiz only one). For me, with a 128M nvidia
5650go, I run into the black window problem after only a few windows with
beryl, but have never seen it with compiz. Also, compiz appears, at least
for me, smoother and faster. Running beryl the effects are quite jerky.