i just picked up a zotac ionITX with the 330 dual core atom and the ion chipset.. just a matter a time before i try something crazy with it. =]
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Glen Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the update piotr. I'll be evaluating some ion based hardware > soon I hope, so now I know what I need ;). > > > On 9 Jun 2009, at 17:19, Piotr Kempa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay, here's an update after a few hours of a good battle (of good vs >> evil). >> >> Turns out the xserver *is* built with --disable-xinerama flag and that >> prevents the proprietary nvidia driver from working. So, as far as I >> know, clutter in moblin bases on OpenGL acceleration and in order to get >> moblin working on nvidia, 3d acceleration is required. Open source >> drivers (nv and nouveau) do not provide proper 3d acceleration yet (but >> I wish they will some day so we can ditch the whole proprietary driver >> business altogether). In short words: you need the proprietary driver. >> >> So, I downloaded the source RPM for xorg-x11-xserver, changed the spec >> file and recompiled it with --enable-xinerama (I think --enable is the >> default for xinerama but not being sure I just wanted to be on the safe >> side). >> >> So everything ended well and the proprietary driver is working great >> and moblin runs smooth and very fast on ION, even in 1600x1200 >> resolution. Probably it would run on other nvidia cards as well but I >> haven't checked. >> >> If anybody wants to get their hands a bit dirty and recompile xserver, >> I can help. >> >> And on a different note: wouldn't it be fair to the world to just >> provide the default xserver in Moblin that can work with nvidia (i.e. >> with --enable-xinerama)? Change the default build flags for the future? >> I understand that can maybe cause problems in different areas of >> course... But that would certainly make life easier for some nvidia >> card users and have that whole 'anti-monopolistic' spirit going on ;) >> >> I also understand that Moblin was created by Intel and is supposed to >> run on Intel hardware, not on ION. And as far as I could check, Intel >> is not entirely happy about Nvidia doing a chipset for the Atom >> platform. So it is reasonable that they prefer Moblin not working with >> ION, or any other chipset than Intel's (actually, even less because >> we still haven't seen Intel Poulsbo aka US15W supported...). >> >> But now that Moblin has been handed of to the Linux Foundation, maybe >> it's time to make it more friendly to the whole world and not locked >> into a monopoly? >> >> Sorry, that was a bit of a rant. All in all, it can be made to work and >> I'll be more than happy to help anybody with doing it! >> >> Cheers, >> Piotr >> >> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:26:12 +0200 >> Piotr Kempa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Anybody managed to run the proprietary nvidia driver on Moblin? >>> I managed to compile and install the kernel and Xorg modules, but upon >>> load the X module 'nvidia_drv' complains about a missing symbol >>> XRC_DRAWABLE, which in some strange (google) way points to xorg-xsever >>> being compiled without libxinerama support... Which I guess is >>> possible. >>> >>> Is there anybody that has experience with that driver on Moblin? Is >>> compiling a new xserver the only way to go here? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Piotr Kempa >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moblin dev Mailing List >>> [email protected] >>> >>> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >>> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >>> http://moblin.org once logged in. >>> >>> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >>> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moblin dev Mailing List >> [email protected] >> >> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >> http://moblin.org once logged in. >> >> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >> > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
