From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 03:02:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3E516A402 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:02:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Kristen.Glynn@virginblue.com.au) Received: from mail62.messagelabs.com (mail62.messagelabs.com [203.166.119.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B4F413C48E for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:02:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Kristen.Glynn@virginblue.com.au) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: Kristen.Glynn@virginblue.com.au X-Msg-Ref: server-11.tower-62.messagelabs.com!1173150140!1450702!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7.1; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [203.202.21.160] Received: (qmail 2187 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2007 03:02:20 -0000 Received: from mail.virginblue.com.au (HELO mail.virginblue.com.au) (203.202.21.160) by server-11.tower-62.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2007 03:02:20 -0000 Received: from DJQHOCMX01.virginblue.internal (djqhonmx02.virginblue.internal [192.168.63.2]) by mail.virginblue.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601643D406A; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:02:20 +1000 (EST) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:03:21 +1000 Message-ID: <117E214ECBE90A42B7DD8DE6485E2C55037EC3@DJQHOCMX01.virginblue.internal> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: White display/screen when launching Beryl Thread-Index: AcdfNhcGE2ujVUwtTC+noApZJLvVwQAZdUog From: "Kris Glynn" To: "Ivan Voras" , Cc: Subject: RE: White display/screen when launching Beryl X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:02:24 -0000 Ok Thanks. I have an Intel card, which kinda explains it. =20 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:51 AM To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: White display/screen when launching Beryl Kris Glynn wrote: > Hi, > =20 > I have installed ModularXorg from the info on the wiki. Everything=20 > appears to have installed correctly although when I launch=20 > Beryl-manager all I see is a white display yet it seems as though the=20 > desktop is still active behind the white display. > =20 > I have tried various searches to rectify the problem but to no avail. > Does anyone know how to fix this ? There were a couple of threads about this problem here. Try searching the list for a thread I started about problems with beryl. The short version is: If you have an ATI card, forget it, if you have an Intel card, it might work, and if you have an nVidia card, it will probably work with one version of their proprietary driver or another.