[SOLVED] No rain effects with Beryl and ATI drivers

berry120 · Last edited by berry120 on Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:51 am; edited 1 time in total

Sorry if desktop environments was the wrong place to put this, seemed like the best place!

I've got XGL and Beryl working great, mostly anyway. Wobbly windows, desktop cubes, transparency and pretty much everything I've tested works fine. But whatever I try, I just can't get the rain / water effects to work at all, nothing happens. I'm using the fglrx driver with an ATI X1600 card and have tried the latest stable and unstable releases of the drivers (currently using the unstable ones because the stable ones don't seem to give me any 3D at all) and I've had big problems with them before with a lot of 3D applications running under XGL, so I'm thinking that they're to blame for the lack of water effects.

Could someone clarify this, or suggest something to try otherwise?

thanks,

berry

atrus123 · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

Not entirely sure why you aren't getting rain effects. I'm assuming that your card has a pixel shader, which I think is a requirement for rain. XGL, while not quite as fast as AIGLX, won't prevent you from using the effect.

I find that the the Beryl configuration gui doesn't work especially well sometimes. Maybe check your gconf-editor and see if rain isn't getting enabled properly.
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g8m · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Noord Brabant

Rain effects works with my x700. But I'm using the opensource drivers (enabled in the kernel configuration/radeon module in xorg.conf). On a normal X / aixgl configuration.

matze_na · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 54 Location: Germany

probably a dumb question.. but.. well: when i tried out the rain effects, i was pretty confused at first because it didn't work after i enabled it in the beryl settings manager under "extras". so i looked into the settings, and it turned out that you can set a button to toggle the rain in "shortcut - rain".
ever tried pressing that one?

berry120 · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

Lol yup I've tried the shortcuts, they don't do anything

The card has a pixel shader but there's no open source drivers around for it yet, I believe reverse engineering work has started but is still very early on.

berry120 · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Ah it works! Not with 0.2.*, but downgrading to 0.1.4 gives me lots of pretty water effects