Beryl crashes with segfault in FC6

[alan]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, alan wrote:

> I am using beryl from the Extras repository.
>
> It was working up until the 0.2 betas with my current drivers and xconfig. 
> Now it just segfaults on launch.  (After displaying a bunch of tests that all 
> pass.)
>
> I am using the commercial NVIDIA driver version 9631.  (The last one 
> supporting my chipset.)
>
> Any ideas?  Since it is a laptop, I cannot just "replace the card" and the nv 
> open source driver will not run Beryl at all.
>
> Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

I did a bit more research on this (which I should have done before 
posting).

Yes there is a problem.  It is not just Fedora.  It is a bug in Beryl and 
is fixed in later code.

http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=2564

has info on the problem and the point where it gets fixed.

Any possibility of an update?

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