Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
Guy Van Sanden wrote: Thanks Matt I have been using the Nvidia drivers for about 2 years now, but I didn't know about the hardware acceleration option! Cool Guy This is from the Nvidia readme: Option RenderAccel boolean Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled. If you run the nvidia driver you user hardware acceleration for 3D (just compare the results of gears). This is only for the RENDER extension. Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 07:33 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: If you run the nvidia driver you user hardware acceleration for 3D (just compare the results of gears). This is only for the RENDER extension. Christian The RENDER extension being X's way of rendering primitives, including fonts. It has nothing to do with glxgears - which is all done by the glx (opengl) extension. - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/q9bgZosHVX2BdAoRAhodAJ405i1GxSKANAVIjfgP47KIZmYtTACeKrW9 XDQPock5/ZNLJz72FyecQd4= =4dKb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
Hi, I've only done ATI cards before under Gentoo. Where can I find instructions on getting the right NVidea drivers installed? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 12:49 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've only done ATI cards before under Gentoo. Where can I find instructions on getting the right NVidea drivers installed? Thanks, Mark Quite simple, really. $ emerge nvidia-kernel $ emerge nvidia-glx Remove any references to glcore or dri from the start of XF86Config. Change the driver to Driver=nvidia Under this line, add Option RenderAccel true to enable hardware rendering in X. Viola! 2d/3d accelerated desktop with nvidia drivers! - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qrU0ZosHVX2BdAoRAjw7AJwKw0eTGzp2uE8A9Cd+nU7Gc+X41wCfaeu3 JSQ6unnYaP76+tUFJnjMYHA= =SGPq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:55, Matt Chorman wrote: Quite simple, really. $ emerge nvidia-kernel $ emerge nvidia-glx Remove any references to glcore or dri from the start of XF86Config. Change the driver to Driver=nvidia Under this line, add Option RenderAccel true to enable hardware rendering in X. Viola! 2d/3d accelerated desktop with nvidia drivers! - -- Matt Matt, Thanks much. You proved I couldn't even spell NVidia! No wonder I've been an ATI guy up until now! ;-) OK, everything is emerged and I've modified the XF86config file as instructed. I'm getting an error message NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory) (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Indeed, /dev/nvidiactl does not exist. Are there any specific options I needed to enable in my kernel to make this work? agpgart? Other stuff? dri/drm? That's required by the Radeon family, but this is a new box and new kernel, so likely I didn't get somethign turned on if required. Thanks, MArk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
On Thursday 06 November 2003 22.27, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, everything is emerged and I've modified the XF86config file as instructed. I'm getting an error message NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory) (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Indeed, /dev/nvidiactl does not exist. Are there any specific options I needed to enable in my kernel to make this work? agpgart? Other stuff? dri/drm? That's required by the Radeon family, but this is a new box and new kernel, so likely I didn't get somethign turned on if required. You need to load the kernel module: modprobe nvidia and maybe add nvidia to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.[456] /Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:40, Michael Andreen wrote: You need to load the kernel module: modprobe nvidia and maybe add nvidia to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.[456] /Michael Very, very weird. OK, so I did emerge nvidea-kernel 3 times before I noticed what was going on. I couldn't do the modprobe since it told me the drivers wasn't found. So I look closer and guess what? I've built 3 kernels today. The /usr/src/linux link was not pointing to the currently running kernel, so the emerge was putting the nvidia stuff in a different /lib/modules path. Is this considered a bug? I think it might be, in the sense that this is the first thing I've ever personally encountered where that link made a difference. fluxbox is up and running. thanks! Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:59 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: So I look closer and guess what? I've built 3 kernels today. The /usr/src/linux link was not pointing to the currently running kernel, so the emerge was putting the nvidia stuff in a different /lib/modules path. Is this considered a bug? I think it might be, in the sense that this is the first thing I've ever personally encountered where that link made a difference. It is not a bug - it is a feature of the nvidia-kernel. It allows you to build modules for any given kernel by following the link in /usr/src/linux. This is not going to change anytime soon. Just be aware that if you need to update your drivers in the future that you should modify that symlink to point to the appropriate kernel source that you wish to build the modules for. Sorry, I forgot about this little feature, else I would have warned you from the start. :-( Also - I read in another thread responding to this about running opengl-update nvidia - this is only necessary if you've changed your opengl drivers. The ebuild for nvidia-opengl runs this command for you once you've emerged the nvidia-opengl package. If, in the future, you upgrade XFree, you will need to run the command opengl-update nvidia again. It only needs to happen when your opengl libs have changed. Enjoy! - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qsvWZosHVX2BdAoRAvX7AJ9BmY5IWuMzwLde1d4i6Kjt0jIdjACfSsZh sPu0iS813rxXSjUeF3maoVQ= =JGHa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:00 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: you need to run opengl-update nvidia as well. This will change the symlinks libGL.so and friends in /usr/lib to point to the nvidia-glx. I also have agpgart and dri enabled in my kernel. Don't know, if that is really needed, but it works here without problems (Geforce 3) :-) I have a file /etc/ modules.d/nvidia. Maybe you should run modules-update to get the entries in / etc/modules.conf. But I'm not shure, if I did that, so perhaps you try first without that. opengl-update is run by the nvidia-glx.ebuild, so it should not be necessary. Agpgart is fine to enable, and is the default. The nvidia driver states that dri should be removed from XF86Config (see lines 357-375 of /usr/share/doc/ nvidia-glx-1.0.4496-r1/README.gz) quote You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore /quote I doubt it causes a fatal error, but if you check you XF86 log I'll bet it throws an error and does not load the dri module - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qs3VZosHVX2BdAoRAotLAJ0Q+CzM7FvjZS7yBwrOlbZrZjbsjwCdGD8F fHtegYwux6z5uhvgY7vsDug= =EC1G -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 23:40 schrieb Matt Chorman: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:00 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: you need to run opengl-update nvidia as well. This will change the symlinks libGL.so and friends in /usr/lib to point to the nvidia-glx. I also have agpgart and dri enabled in my kernel. Don't know, if that is really needed, but it works here without problems (Geforce 3) :-) I have a file /etc/ modules.d/nvidia. Maybe you should run modules-update to get the entries in / etc/modules.conf. But I'm not shure, if I did that, so perhaps you try first without that. opengl-update is run by the nvidia-glx.ebuild, so it should not be necessary. Is that new? I think that didn't happen, when I configured my video. As far as I remember, I had to call it manually. Agpgart is fine to enable, and is the default. The nvidia driver states that dri should be removed from XF86Config (see lines 357-375 of /usr/share/doc/ nvidia-glx-1.0.4496-r1/README.gz) quote You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore /quote You are right. I don't have these lines in my XF86Config. But I have dri enabled in my kernel. Seems nvidia doesn't need that. I doubt it causes a fatal error, but if you check you XF86 log I'll bet it throws an error and does not load the dri module - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qs3VZosHVX2BdAoRAotLAJ0Q+CzM7FvjZS7yBwrOlbZrZjbsjwCdGD8F fHtegYwux6z5uhvgY7vsDug= =EC1G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Regards Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidea emerge instructions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 03:00 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Sorry, to be honest I've never used any of these. I have heard of some of them, I'll try to enlighten as best I can. * media-video/yanc-0.2.1 [ Masked ] Description: YanC is a GUI configuration tool for the NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set. I've never used this or even heard of it... Might be interesting as there are many environment variables one can set to change the anti-aliasing/shadowing/ etc Not sure if this program does this or not. * media-video/nvoption-0_alpha-r1 Description: grapich front-end to change NVIDIA options in X mode Once again, probably similiar to the above but it looks like an alpha alpha alpha... :-) * media-tv/nvtv-0.4.5 Description: TV-Out for NVidia cards Only useful if you have a tv-out. AFAIK, not necessary either as the nvidia driver can take care of it (see the README.gz file I referenced in a previous email.) I had mine set as a dual-headed monitor/tv. It worked just fine with the nvidia driver options. Probably only useful to those using the nv driver (non-accelerated) * media-video/nvclock-0.7 Description: NVIDIA Overclocking Utility Might be fun if you like to push your nvidia card to the burn-out limits.. Beware of heat-stroke. :-) * media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit Description: nvidia's c graphics compiler toolkit Did not know this had been ported to linux. It will be interesting to see if any new software is built using cg.. AFAIK, not necessary. For anything. (unless you plan on developing software using cg.) * media-sound/nforce-audio-1.0.0261 Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA's nForce1/2 SoundStorm audio chipset Useful only if you have an nforce motherboard (built by nvidia). * media-tv/rivatv-0.8.2 Description: kernel driver for nVidia based cards with video-in Useful if your video card has the Video-in link (for watching video/movies and such). Once again, probably only if your driver is the nv driver, but I could be wrong as I don't have this feature on my graphics card. * net-misc/nforce-net-1.0.0256 Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA's nForce network chip Useful only if you have an nforce motherboard (built by nvidia). - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7D81740A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qtaSZosHVX2BdAoRAlGAAJ9crh3ObFb7PMxM1F980L6bt262CwCfd9Az AnY18dKgukst2VDC60aRe+0= =UEUm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
