Blur blur blur

[kyokan]

Has anyone found a solution for the blur effect generating nothing but rendering errors yet? After reading various forums it seems that many people have been experiencing this after upgrading to Feisty (I couldn't say whether it worked before for me or not, as I only started using Beryl once I had Feisty). Any help here would be greatly appreciated, as blur would definitely be so useful when it comes to reading terminal windows!

[arthur_kalm]

I'm having the exact same problem. I'm using the latest Beryl with an 8800 GTS and the latest Beryl in the repo

[tr4nce]

Same as [url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2647364#post2647364:bbfd9]Ubuntu Forums[/url:bbfd9]

With a Intel GMA 3000 integrated graphics and shared 256mb I get the same problem, Blur and Water doesn't work well in AIGLX & Xorg 7.2. I'm not using Ubuntu (currently gentoo) but with Fedora6 without updates Blur worked fine. My conclusion is that there is something about 3D support and mesa is where you have to focus.

You can try in console
[code:bbfd9]$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo[/code:bbfd9]

I got:
[code:bbfd9]libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/tls/i965_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so[/code:bbfd9]

and then
[code:bbfd9]libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6d[/code:bbfd9]

So my guess is mesa...At this time 'm trying to compile intel 2D driver and Mesa 3D support from git using this guide [url:bbfd9]http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html[/url:bbfd9] (starting from point 3.3 Xorg 2D driver)

UPDATE! Yes working! Update mesa to 6.5.3 [url:bbfd9]http://mesa3d.sf.net[/url:bbfd9] >> Blur plugin now functional but water still have problems.
Some remarks about Blur: When you activate it moving windows becomes very sluggish. Well not so sh*tty but there is a big difference when you compare performance with disabled blur windows.

[Jupiter]

one of the things i did with blur is to turn it down from default
the motion blur setting i mean,,, it's way to high by default
i turned my down to "0.0500"

also i notice,,, when using blur with beryl my video card would get
hotter by at least 5c
with compcomm it doesn't get any hotter at all

[kyokan]

My conclusion is that there is something about 3D support and mesa is where you have to focus.


Thanks for the help, but I'm not using mesa (unless they come pre-installed). Absolutely everything about my ubuntu installation is standard (other than Beryl of course).

[tr4nce]

Try to compile (or install using Automatix) the propietary ATI drivers. I assume that you are using open source drivers (they are pre-installed with Xorg 7.2) Probably this is the package that Ubuntu has installed http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/ind ... 191.tar.gz (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.6.191.tar.gz)

[adamk]

Thanks for the help, but I'm not using mesa (unless they come pre-installed).


They do. All 3D drivers that come installed out-of-the-box in Ubuntu are from the libgl1-mesa-dri package.

Adam