On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:19 am, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hi,
> I'm using Nvidia GeForce4-MX-440-SE with kernels: 2.4.20-rX, 2.4.22
> and 2.4.23.
> Had to install it on initial install and after that to recompile it
> for each new kernel, All went OK, just follow the docs
> /Desktop-guide i think/. No problems for me. Maybe you should check
> the docs again. Hope that helps.
> Rumen.
>
>
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You're not using a KT133 based motherboard, are you? Using any
AGP at all, locked up my kt133 box every time I tried to use a GLX
app. Nforce2 based boards ROCK with Nvidia graphics cards, but VIA
board are problematic.
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