beryl on freebsd

[Predrag Punosevac]

Michael Hauber wrote:
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 11:06:47 am Reid Linnemann proclaimed:
>   
>> Written by Dan Sikorsky on 08/16/07 09:40>>
>>
>>     
>>> Is this guide OK?
>>> even if i dont have an nvidia chipset?
>>> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-47986.html
>>>       
>> Well, you don't need to use git to fetch the xorg code, xorg 7.2 is now
>> in ports. Since you won't be using the nvidia driver, you don't need
>> compat_5x enabled. I didn't need to enable any options in the Screen
>> section with my i845, but I did need options "composite" and "RENDER"
>> enabled in the Extensions section.
>>     
>
> I know this thread is a little dated, but this is the link I used as a 
> reference while trying to get beryl working with kde on my laptop...
>
> I'm running KDE 3.5.7 on xorg 7.2 on FreeBSD 6.2-Stable.
>
> dmesg yields:
> drm0: <ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 
> 0x48000000-0x4fffffff,0x40300000-0x4030ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> info: [drm] AGP at 0x60000000 256MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524
>
> The only difference is that I'm trying to get it to work with the KDE desktop 
> rather than the Gnome desktop.
>
> I've followed the steps in the link.  When I try to load Beryl however, I get 
> a light-grey screen.  I can rotate the cube, but it's all grey (except for 
> the "gems" at the top and bottom).
>
> I'm perplexed, but I don't think it's a problem with Beryl (because of the 
> rotation and the gems displaying at top and bottom of the cube)...   Is there 
> a trick to get beryl to work with KDE on FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>   
You should post this question on PC-BSD forums since PC-BSD 1.4 uses 
Beryl as a default window manager on the KDE desktop.
Installing PC-BSD would be also the quickest and easiest way to get 
fully functional KDE with Beryl as a window manager.
Have fun
Predrag