Help Request KDE Crash Handler and Beryl white screen

[denster]

I have just recently started to experiment with differen't distros. And after going through 20 or 30 of them, I realize that I can't get past the first couple of glitches with the little bit of knowledge I bestow.

I have gotten accustomed to GRUB and managed to get like 8 distros on one HD. Just to test them out.

SABAYON has become my favorite now although Gentoo left me high and dry, I couldn't get it to install!!!

Anyhow, here is my problem and if anyone could help me get to the next step then I would greatly appreciate it.

I installed Sabayon a few times on different machines, and always seem to have a problem getting Beryl to work at first. But after poking at the acceleration manager a few times and then into root to try it out, and after a couple restarts I finally get it working. HOWEVER...

I just did a fresh install again because for some strange reason KDE crashed on me with a signal 8. (whatever that means I don't know, but I got BIG ICONS MAN I MEAN BIG and gnome desktop was not setting up correctly but it was ok in ROOT. KDE was fine in ROOT and Beryl was working ...in ROOT. Now at first I thought user and root were both working then something happened. I realize someone is going to need more info to help me, but I am just 'setting the stage' if you will.

Basically when I started kde as user I would either get the crash handler and a blank white screen or just a blank white screen and a cursor. Beryl was still set to fallback on beryl crash- so obviously this is a bit more serious matter

Now root was ok at that time as far as I could tell, although one time after logging out of user and going straight into root without restarting I ended up with some weird stuff like 2 trash cans and then I couldn't open home or anything, after restart it seemed ok though.

Anyway, I decided to just to do a fresh install just to be sure I hadn't done something by way of my other hard drives or installs. I have weendoze in a stripe on 2 drives and another 500GB for storage only, plus 8 distros of linux on another drive, all SATA.

SO this new fresh install of SABAYON, well I couldn't get beryl working at first again. So again I made sure acceleration manager was set to xgl for my card is a 6800GS. And tried a few different sessions in root and restarting, and no beryl. THEN I did something stupid. I unchecked the fallback window for beryl to see what would happen in root and restarted, well when I came back in root beryl started automatically (not sure how to manage any of these settings)

So now I have a white screen in root, but as user beryl is working again. It seems as though I cannot get both working at the same time. Please help anyone, I can take even a small crumb and make a meal out of it

[dyingmuppet]

Why don't you try AIGLX in the acceleration manager It should work, cause on my laptop I have a nVidia Geforce 6100Go and uses AIGLX too without a problem...

Grtzz DM

[denster]

Now that was simple enough... Thanks! I set the configuration to aiglx as you said, restarted and Voila! Now beryl is working for both root and user.

When you select the acceleration manager session at the logon screen and configure it, is that for the entire system? Or does it only apply to the user you log on as, (e.g. root or user).

Thanks again.

[dyingmuppet]

If you set the acceleration manager for the first time this will be set for the whole system.

Grtzz DM

[denster]

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

I have another problem now but it is a post for a differen't category.