Beryl, MythTV and Xserver crashing

[albertorp]

Hi,

Apologies if my problem has been solved somewhere else, but I've been looking around, and have found too many things I do not understand completely. So before I try too hard to break my PC, here is my problem:

I installed Beryl in my FC6 as described in the beryl site, and also changed my /etc/X11/xorg.comf as indicated. However, Beryl it would not launch. I got the Beryl settings allright, but nothing else. And when I modified gnome-session-properties to start Beryl automatically, it crashed. And everytime I tried to log in as root, it would crash my xserver and go back to the login screen. However, it did let me log in as mythtv (another user), and finally I had to unistall Beryl. I still want to try it, so please help me...

I had been trying to install MythTV just before (couldn't, but that's for another thread), and I installed the latest NVidia drivers as recommended somewhere.

My Gnome->Administration->Display Settings report my video card as "nVidia Corporation NV18[GeForce4 MX -nForce GPU]". I know it's integrated onto the motherboard. It seems there is no problem with the card, as I can see the environment pretty well.

Any ideas? If you need more information, please let me know. I've come back to Linux after a few years without touching it, so I'm a bit rusty at the moment.

Thanks in advance

[albertorp]

Well, it seems I did manage to solve it (sort of). The problem was that I had updated the nVidia driver (to 97xx), and the one I did not work with it. I installed the old driver (96xx) following the instructions in the Livna repository, and then Beryl started!

The only problem now is that the video card does not have a lot of memory (I think), so I can only use one desktop, and after a few windows opened, they start turning black... :-(

[StefanJ]

After my next-but-one kernel update, X server started crashing when I LEFT mythfrontend or mythtvsetup.

After an upgrade to 2.6.19-1.2288.fc5, 1.0-9746, xserver crashes when I START mythfrontend, or try to configure OpenGL or even query OpenGL status!

This is w/ a GeoForce FX 5200.