Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-08 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:08 +0100, Jan Litwi?ski wrote: G'day steve, * stevenetwor...@cox.net [100107 15:56] wrote: I am building a new FC12 system intended for MythTV which needs the acceleration provided by the drivers for my nvidia video card. After following the advice

How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread steve
I am building a new FC12 system intended for MythTV which needs the acceleration provided by the drivers for my nvidia video card. After following the advice here http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=232 I think I have them installed properly, but I only say that because X works after the

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Jan Litwiński
G'day steve, * steve networ...@cox.net [100107 15:56] wrote: I am building a new FC12 system intended for MythTV which needs the acceleration provided by the drivers for my nvidia video card. After following the advice here http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=232 I think I have them

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jan Litwiński on 01/07/2010 09:08 AM wrote: glxgears ? No. No. No. No. At the very least, use glxinfo to see if Direct Rendering is reporting yes and your OpenGL render string reports nVidia instead of Mesa. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:08 +0100, Jan Litwiński wrote: G'day steve, * steve networ...@cox.net [100107 15:56] wrote: I am building a new FC12 system intended for MythTV which needs the acceleration provided by the drivers for my nvidia video card. After following the advice here

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread steve
Per Michael's advice, I ran glxinfo. Result: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 (printed 5x) Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 (printed like 50x) Segmentation fault (core dumped) I guess that means I don't have the

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 steve networ...@cox.net: I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-) First, make sure you have it installed correctly. If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run: su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:56 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/8 steve networ...@cox.net: I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-) First, make sure you have it installed correctly. If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run:

Re: How to verify nvidia drivers working

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/8 Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu: No need to rebuild.  I just installed akmod-nvidia (the 64-bit one) and added  rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf.  You can add nomodeset, but I didn't need to.  This is a 64-bit F12. You could do that, but it's already