On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Anthony Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "John Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I would like to know how F9 is behaving with Atrpms packages. > >> > >> Mainly: > >> > >> 1) is nividia 173 working with 3D acceleration? > > <snip> > > > As far as the nvidia 173 drivers from the ATrpms repo, I had more > > serious issues. I have been using the 173 version drivers from > > freshrpms and they have been working great (3D acceleration included). > > However, I would prefer to stick with ATrpms, which is what I have > > always used in the past, so this was a good chance to test them out. > > Unfortunately I didn't get very far. I uninstalled the package from > > freshrpms, and then used yum to install the packages from ATrpms. > > When I rebooted my system X would not start at all. Below is the tail > > end of the Xorg.0.log file from the failed attempt: > > > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" > > (II) Loading extension NV-GLX > > (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found > > > > Fatal server error: > > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 > > > > Even when I uninstalled the nvidia packages and went back to the > > freshrpms package I was still having this problem. I found that the > > libwfb.so was missing from my system. I had to reinstall the > > xorg-x11-server-Xorg package in order to get this file back, and then > > X started working again. I don't know if the nvidia packages from > > ATrpms were completely the cause of this issue because I had tried > > several things with the nvidia drivers when I first installed F9 on > > this system, which was before the working drivers came out. In any > > case, I think I will stick with the freshrpms package, at least for > > the short term. > > > > Other than that, in general the packages from the ATrpms repo for F9 > > are working fine (mythtv, vlc, xmms, etc.) > > > > John > > using x86_64, i get > > (II) LoadModule: "fb" > (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so > (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.3 > (II) Loading sub module "wfb" > (II) LoadModule: "wfb" > (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libwfb.so > (II) Module wfb: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" > compiled for 7.1.99.2, module version = 1.0.0 > > and everything (MythTV frontend with TwinView: LCD/Projector) works fine, > though i do get: > > (II) Loading extension NV-GLX > (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized > (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture > > but i'm not sure what that means for 3D > Thanks. It seems to be working fine. 3D acceleration is important for 3D opengl applications, because a lot of operations can be executed directly by hardware, in modern Nivida cards. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/OpenGL This is useful for games, desktop effects, etc ... This is the main reason we use nvidia proprietary drivers, and not the slooooow nv driver. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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