Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:08 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mostly for DJ,
>>
>> I finally finished going through Xorg. I always get a sense of
>> satisfaction when bringing it up for the the first time on a new system.
>> It's the same feeling when I start LFS for the first time after a major
>> update.
>>
>> DRI and glxgears/glxinfo worked right off the bat. glxgears was only
>> about 550 FPS or so (my main system is 9900 FPS with a proprietary
>> nvidia driver), but that's mostly a HW issue.
>
> If you use the new glxgears from the mesa-demos it syncs with the
> refresh rate of the monitor so it always gives me 60 fps
I thought it's primary use was a benchmark. I can't ever remember
running it at less than about 200 fps.
>> After the builds, we have 'Xorg-7.6-2 Configuration', but we don't ever
>> tell the user how to test xorg. I guessed at 'startx' and that brought
>> up twm. We need to say that somewhere.
>
> xinit works too.
startx is a script and the default ends up as
client=/etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc
server=/opt/xorg/bin/X
clientargs=""
xserverauthfile=$HOME/.serverauth.$$
serverargs="-auth ${xserverauthfile}"
display=":0
xinit "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs
>> 2. (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: many
>> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
>>
>> I'm not sure what these warnings mean. I'm sure they're harmless, but I
>> wonder why they're there.
>
> I think it's because you don't have kernel mode setting enabled in you
> kernel config.
I'm not sure which setting you mean.
> I think Mesa needs --with-gallium-drivers=nouveau, you need to install
> the driver xf86-video-nouveau which is only available through git, you
> need to recompile your kernel to enable the kernel part of the nouveau
> stack and you need to put driver=nouveau in your xorg.conf. It's a bit
> of hastle to get it all set up but once you do it makes recompiling the
> kernel a lot easier because the code is in the kernel.
LOL. And you think the binary nvidia install is hard!
-- Bruce
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