Hello, I installed beryl on a computer running ubuntu edgy x86_32. Beryl considered my fxruby application to be "unresponsive" and the window was dimmed. The opengl frame was black most of the time and when I did a rotation it was flickering a lot (like there was no double buffer present). The "unresponsive"-window problem was no big problem (just unchecked that "dim unresponsive window" option). The OpenGL issue was a bit more annoying. Is there a workaround for this issue? Does this phenomenon occur on some graphics cards sometimes only? Regards Bj?rn Bergqvist
On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Bj?rn Bergqvist wrote:> Is there a workaround for this issue? Does this phenomenon occur on > some graphics cards sometimes only?Jeroen (or someone else) is going to have to address this one, I''m afraid. I didn''t even know what "Beryl" was.
Hi Bj?rn: Black windows under XGL/Beryl/Compiz/etc. is generally an indication of running out of video RAM. It took me months to figure that out. Possible solutions: 1) get a new video card w/more RAM 2) lower your screen resolution. On my laptop, which is happily loving beryl after a long time of hacking, I was forced to lower the resolution from the native 1680x1050 to 1280x960, which largely handles well, but still has a quirk here or there. XGL apps generally respond ok on my machine. Forrest ----- Original Message ---- From: Bj?rn Bergqvist <bjorn.bergqvist at gmail.com> To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:29:18 AM Subject: [fxruby-users] Beryl Hello, I installed beryl on a computer running ubuntu edgy x86_32. Beryl considered my fxruby application to be "unresponsive" and the window was dimmed. The opengl frame was black most of the time and when I did a rotation it was flickering a lot (like there was no double buffer present). The "unresponsive"-window problem was no big problem (just unchecked that "dim unresponsive window" option). The OpenGL issue was a bit more annoying. Is there a workaround for this issue? Does this phenomenon occur on some graphics cards sometimes only? Regards Bj?rn Bergqvist _______________________________________________ fxruby-users mailing list fxruby-users at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users
Hello, If I lower the resolution the FXGLViewer is still black and flickery. But I saw that when I looked on a video that window also was black sometimes. Probably it''s just someting wrong with the graphics driver. Bj?rn Bergqvist On 1/19/07, Forrest Chang <fkchang2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi Bj?rn: > > Black windows under XGL/Beryl/Compiz/etc. is generally an indication of running out of video RAM. > > It took me months to figure that out. Possible solutions: 1) get a new video card w/more RAM 2) lower your screen resolution. > > On my laptop, which is happily loving beryl after a long time of hacking, I was forced to lower the resolution from the native 1680x1050 to 1280x960, which largely handles well, but still has a quirk here or there. XGL apps generally respond ok on my machine. > > Forrest > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bj?rn Bergqvist <bjorn.bergqvist at gmail.com> > To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:29:18 AM > Subject: [fxruby-users] Beryl > > Hello, > I installed beryl on a computer running ubuntu edgy x86_32. Beryl > considered my fxruby application to be "unresponsive" and the window > was dimmed. > The opengl frame was black most of the time and when I did a rotation > it was flickering a lot (like there was no double buffer present). > > The "unresponsive"-window problem was no big problem (just unchecked > that "dim unresponsive window" option). > The OpenGL issue was a bit more annoying. > > Is there a workaround for this issue? Does this phenomenon occur on > some graphics cards sometimes only? > > Regards > Bj?rn Bergqvist > _______________________________________________ > fxruby-users mailing list > fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > fxruby-users mailing list > fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users >
NOt sure, but still sounds like video ram exhaustion, if I read your symptoms right. How much video ram do you have, and how low resolution did you go? Forrest ----- Original Message ---- From: Bj?rn Bergqvist <bjorn.bergqvist at gmail.com> To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:36:23 AM Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] Beryl Hello, If I lower the resolution the FXGLViewer is still black and flickery. But I saw that when I looked on a video that window also was black sometimes. Probably it''s just someting wrong with the graphics driver. Bj?rn Bergqvist On 1/19/07, Forrest Chang <fkchang2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi Bj?rn: > > Black windows under XGL/Beryl/Compiz/etc. is generally an indication of running out of video RAM. > > It took me months to figure that out. Possible solutions: 1) get a new video card w/more RAM 2) lower your screen resolution. > > On my laptop, which is happily loving beryl after a long time of hacking, I was forced to lower the resolution from the native 1680x1050 to 1280x960, which largely handles well, but still has a quirk here or there. XGL apps generally respond ok on my machine. > > Forrest > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bj?rn Bergqvist <bjorn.bergqvist at gmail.com> > To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:29:18 AM > Subject: [fxruby-users] Beryl > > Hello, > I installed beryl on a computer running ubuntu edgy x86_32. Beryl > considered my fxruby application to be "unresponsive" and the window > was dimmed. > The opengl frame was black most of the time and when I did a rotation > it was flickering a lot (like there was no double buffer present). > > The "unresponsive"-window problem was no big problem (just unchecked > that "dim unresponsive window" option). > The OpenGL issue was a bit more annoying. > > Is there a workaround for this issue? Does this phenomenon occur on > some graphics cards sometimes only? > > Regards > Bj?rn Bergqvist > _______________________________________________ > fxruby-users mailing list > fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > fxruby-users mailing list > fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users >_______________________________________________ fxruby-users mailing list fxruby-users at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users