[Solved] Beryl + i810 +videos

fumoffu · Last edited by fumoffu on Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:02 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi everyone!

Now that Xorg 7.1 has gone stable i was finally able to install Gentoo on my new notebook. It features a i945 chipset with the gma950 graphics chip. I couldn't help myself but to try out beryl since it is in portage now. It actually seems to work quite well, but when I watch a video in MPlayer or Kaffeine and start moving the window around the video "just stays" at the place and only the window moves. When the player is overlapped by another window, the video just turns blue. Videos also start going slow when I turn the cube and Alt-Tab Taskswitch video preview does not work either. Anyone experiencing the same issues?

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fumoffu
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psycepa · Veteran Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 1637 Location: Poland

yes, i did experienced same thing
another one was that watching a movie in a fullscreen mode (as well as for example running xscreensaver) resulted in periodical blinking of a monitor
the soultion for a mplayer was to change a video output to another one, try all you have to find the one that suits your needs
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fumoffu · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject:

Well, that did not help at all, as I found out that OpenGL-Applications are just as bad as videos. And I don't have any other options in MPlayer (except for X11, but the the video won't stretch to fullscreen). Maybe I should just wait for a stable release

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roderick · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:

My mplayer has X11shm, Xvideo, and Xvidex as video driver options.

More than likely you were very restrictive on which options you compiled into your system. It works fine for me and I have similar Intel specs as you, but much more included options/settings for multimedia.
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sliwowitz · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: OpenGL apps flickering

I have the same problem here on a 915GM graphics. Mplayer runs fine on x11shm, but OpenGL applications linke glxgear flicker, crash when moved over the cube edge and their window's contents lags behind the window borders when moving.
I also get following error when running beryl-manager, glxinfo etc.:

fumoffu · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

@roderick

Do your OpenGL apps work fine too? Maybe you could post your Useflags?
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jdmulloy · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: Same Here

I'm having this problem as well. Why does this happen, I filed a bug report with xorg and they still haven't responded. The problem is with using a compositing manager such as xcompmgr or beryl. Composite and opengl don't play nice and I have similar issues.

fumoffu · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject:

Anyone tried the new 0.1.2 verion of Beryl yet?
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devsk · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

are you guys using in-kernel i915/DRM modules or using the x11-base/x11-drm package? I have no such problems as the OP and I am using in-kernel modules.

fumoffu · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

I'm using the portage version. The kernel version did not work for me at all. I remember compiling it directly into the kernel (not as a module). As far as I can remember drm did not work at all. Maybe I'll try again this weekend.
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fumoffu · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

So I am now using the kernel module and dri is working fine. Then I emerged the new version of Beryl. After that I read on Gentoo-XEffects that you have to start a new dbus-session for each user so the dbus-plugin can work correctly. So I put the script from that site into my ~/.kde/Autostart:

devsk · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:47 am Post subject:

have you tried the latest mplayer version (rc1)? its possible some X headers changed recently (or because of aiglx USE flag) and you haven't compiled mplayer after that.

fumoffu · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

I solved the problem for videos by emerging the latest vlc and setting its videodriver to x11.
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chunderbunny · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

Funny, I'm using 945GM and the only issue I'm having is that VLC only displays a black screen when using XV output. Mplayer works just fine, VLC works in X11 mode but that isn't hardware accelerated so it's dog slow with horrible quality. I'm using the version of beryl from the xeffects overlay, but I seem to recall it also worked (mostly) when i used the regular version in portage.

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chunderbunny · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the late reply. I am using xv output in player and works fine. xorg.conf is as follows:

duli · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Okay. Thanks.

I don't know why, it still doesn't work in my FC6 distribution.