On 05/16/2010 08:13 AM, Curtis Olson wrote:
> I run fedora here, and not suse, but if I saw this on a fedora system,
> the very next thing I would do is reinstall my nvidia graphics
> drivers. Often, system updates step on the nvidia driver pieces
> forcing a reinstall.
>
> There is also something new in Xorg for Fedora 12 ... an open source
> driver for nvidia cards called noveuau (probably have an off by one
> error on the spelling) is installed by default. This driver seems to
> work really well for 2d operations, but not for 3d, so I've taken
> steps on my system to disable it and install the nvidia drivers from
> nvidia.com <http://nvidia.com>
>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.
>
>
> Guess what? glxgears fails also.
> # glxgears
> glxgears: Error: glXCreateContext failed
>
> And fgfs strill fails after everything was recompiled.
>
> as root even> # fgfs
> Error: Unable to create OpenGL graphics context.
> Error: Unable to create OpenGL graphics context.
> Segmentation fault
>
> Notice the word "context" in both errors
>
> >
There has been a lot of chatter about the nouveau driver lately
concerning openSuSE's elist. Thing like xorg no longer needs
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. It seems xorg chooses the best match video driver
(if your card supports this) and then interrogates the card for all of
the variable it needs. If it fails - tough luck. I have even
seen/heard that the kernel will be handling the video soon. So, say
good bye to a lot of past years functionality.
Like <CTRL><ALT><+/->. My guess is about all distros will soon follow
xorg, nouveau and the kernel. Bad News!
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