If you want to disable nouveau (I believe that's the correct spelling...) you can try to append nomodeset or nouveau.nomodeset to your kernel boot line. This will prevent nouveau from loading and allow you to use the nvidia driver. At least this is how it works in Fedora.
BTW, while nouveau's 3d support is great news, it won't be any good for flightgear. It is currently still experimental (not enabled by default) and targets merely gnome-shell and compiz and the like. I.E. only a well defined subset of the OpenGL api so far. It does that very well though here. Stefan 2010/5/16, Sid Boyce <sbo...@blueyonder.co.uk>: > On 16/05/10 17:34, Donn Washburn wrote: >> 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! >> > > Not really bad news, when nouveau does 3D, expected in Fedora 13. > CTRL-ALT+/- , i.e changing resolutions can be done using xrandr and I > would hope from within KDE and Gnome menus. > The kernel handles most drivers that's why you don't have to find that > CD you know you had or get online when your link is down to get > something to work. If nouveau 3D goes in, good news that I don't have to > fiddle with NVidia's driver that often fails when the kernel ABI > changes. If NVidia would open source it, then the kernel guys could > maintain it. > Regards > Sid. > As Linus told the suits, Linux is evolution, not intelligent design. > > -- > Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot > Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support > Specialist, Cricket Coach > Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
