Re: Helping with RPMFusion (Was Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.)

2008-12-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 14:50 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 29.11.2008 19:08, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Blackwell
Linuxguy123 wrote: > Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I > learned. > > The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might > not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly > with say a livna sourced driver. I posted this last

Re: OpenSource ATI Driver Performance (Was: Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.)

2008-11-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:37:43 -0500 Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep hearing rumors that Intel might make a PCI-E video card > someday. I wish they would, I'd switch to one just to support their > open source driver. For the past several years I've always made sure that any computer

Re: OpenSource ATI Driver Performance (Was: Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.)

2008-11-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:17:12 -0700 "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kind of ironic that the "slower" Intel controller works better, with a > default "out of the box" setup than the ATI controller, ain't it. :) Nah, that's not ironic, that's just Intel always having had suppo

Re: OpenSource ATI Driver Performance (Was: Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.)

2008-11-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 00:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:52:28 -0700 > "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow... A simple "No, it's not working on F10 yet because, among other > > things, the only known way to get it to work is to downgrade libdrm - > >

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-30 Thread Linuxguy123
Just a quick update to say that the developer chatter on the bugzilla for this matter is pretty interesting. They are taking this matter to heart. http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 29.11.2008 19:08, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: Perhaps it woul

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:52:28 -0700 "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow... A simple "No, it's not working on F10 yet because, among other > things, the only known way to get it to work is to downgrade libdrm - > which we think is a _really_ bad idea!" would have done just fin

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:31:43 -0700 "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... Could be useful indeed. The only question here is if we can both > modify the ATI proprietary code as needed with it AND then legally > distribute the modified version via RPMFusion. Or maybe the lawy

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:08:04 -0700 > "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (Sheesh! I can't believe developers still like to > > hard code directory paths when there's no reason to!!!) would be to use > > bad packaging pr

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:08:04 -0700 "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Sheesh! I can't believe developers still like to > hard code directory paths when there's no reason to!!!) would be to use > bad packaging practice. Hey, if it will help anyone I have a handy program I've o

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >>> > > Wow... A simple "No, it's not working on F10 yet beca

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 29.11.2008 17:52, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: Come to think of it, the fglrx drivers are also missing. ATI/AMD just released a new version of these on 11-18 as well. If you get

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > Come to think of it, the fglrx drivers are also missing. ATI/AMD just > > released a new version of these on 11-18 as well. > > If you get them to work in a proper way(¹) let

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 28.11.2008 18:29, Linuxguy123 wrote: Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I learned. The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with say a livna sourced driver. Specifi

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 28.11.2008 23:17, Jim wrote: > [...] Rpmfusion is also missing the xine package. You seems to be quite sure with that. But what's this then: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/repoview/xine.html http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Eve

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 29.11.2008 00:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Come to think of it, the fglrx drivers are also missing. ATI/AMD just released a new version of these on 11-18 as well. If you get them to work in a proper way(¹) let the RPM Fusion packagers know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org. But they

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 17:17 -0500, Jim wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Right now I am unsure if the xorg or nvidia xorg.conf configuration > > tools will put both these lines in the xorg.conf file. I doubt they do, > > actually. > > > > You can read more about this issue here: > > https://bugzill

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Jim
Linuxguy123 wrote: Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I learned. The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with say a livna sourced driver. Specifically, it needs this

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 14:51 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:29:35 -0500 > Linuxguy123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Right now I am unsure if the xorg or nvidia xorg.conf configuration > > tools will put both these lines in the xorg.conf file. I doubt they do, > > actually. >

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:29:35 -0500 Linuxguy123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now I am unsure if the xorg or nvidia xorg.conf configuration > tools will put both these lines in the xorg.conf file. I doubt they do, > actually. I thought that was among the things the livna-config-display scrip

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 12:29 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote: > The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might > not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with > say a livna sourced driver. > > Specifically, it needs this to be present: > > Section "Files

Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-11-28 Thread Linuxguy123
Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I learned. The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with say a livna sourced driver. Specifically, it needs this to be present: Sectio