i've been trying to get hardware graphics acceleration working. i've read the dox & looked at the more obvious things (i hope). my graphics card is 'GeForce4 MX440 w AGP 8x'.
first, i tried using Gentoo's emerges 'nvidia-kernel' & 'nvidia-glx'; in XF86Config, i commented 'load "dri"' & changed to 'Driver "nvidia"'; i also did 'opengl-update nvidia' & 'modprobe nvidia'. 'startx' started KDE, but once started it became very slow, then stopped. second, i tried using Nvidia's own 'run' file; X wouldn't start at all. 3 things seem to be wrong. (1) the Gentoo approach doesn't create the correct libs: there's a list in the Nvidia README & most of them aren't where they sb: eg /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.x.y.z is missing & ditto/libglx.so -> /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so , not to ditto/libglx.so.x.y.z , as the Nvidia doc says it shd; similarly for /usr/lib/libGL.so.x.y.z & ditto/libGLcore.ditto . they are correctly in place after the Nvidia 'run' file is used. (2) the Nvidia README says installation shd create files in /dev , ie nvidia0 1 2 3 ctl , which weren't there with either method of install'n. (3) /var/log/XFree86.0.log says "module(s) glx/nvidia compiled for 4.0.2", whereas all the other modules loaded were compiled for 4.3.0 . back with my usual working system (software acceler'n), modules 'glx' & 'nv' are compiled for 4.3.0 . the log does claim that "AGP 8x was successfully initialised". problem (1) seems to be with Gentoo's ebuilds; (2) mb with something like devfs, which i've never had to look into; (3) may mean i need to compile the modules specially myself: i've never compiled a kernel or module explicitly (Nvidia's 'run' compiled the interface this time), but i'm always willing to learn to do new things. any suggestions wb most gratefully received. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
