On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/29/08 18:07, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 07/29/08 16:00, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 07/29/08 11:38, Jim McCloskey wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> |> Does this infer that you need a graphical console, DRM or a kernel >>>>>> |> frame buffer? >>>>>> >>>>>> Not as far as I can tell. The script checks for various dependencies >>>>>> (git, headers for >>>>>> the running kernel, the kernel building packages and so on) but I >>>>>> can't >>>>>> see that it checks >>>>>> kernel configuration options (assuming that that was what you had in >>>>>> mind), >>>>>> >>>>> Is CONFIG_DRM set in /boot/config-2.6* ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> The Direct Render Manager has to be active for 3D to work. I think 2D >>>> xrender and >>>> XAA should work fine, but I believe that "desktop effects" and compiz >>>> require 3D. >>>> EXA should work, but will likely be *very* slow without DRM/DRI. XV >>>> should >>>> work >>>> fine without DRM/DRI, but I am not sure about XVmc. >>>> >>>> Do you not use DRM/DRI? >>>> >>> Not needed with vesa, nv or nvidia drivers. 3D, aiglx and xvmc all work >>> like a charm with the nvidia binary driver. >>> >> >> Interesting, it looks like the nvidia binary drivers do their own thing. >> And of >> course vesa and nv have no 3D. >> > > Do you boot directly into [xkg]dm? I don't use *DMs (am I correctly remembering that you don't either?). I boot to the cli and run xstart.sh, which lets me choose which WM I want to use. These days I use awesome 3.0pre-alpha (git). Why do you ask? Cheers, Kelly Clowers
