I am trying to get an Acer Revo working on moblin. From your insight I downloaded the src.rpm for xorg-server, installed it and after lots of yum install commands i was able to configure --enable-xinerama
then make and make install. I hope thats the right way of doing it. Here's the list of packages i ended up having to install yum install make gcc binutils glproto libX11-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGL xf86driproto yum install randrproto renderproto fixesproto damageproto xcmiscproto xextproto bigreqsproto resourceproto fontsproto inputproto videoproto compositeproto scrnsaverproto resourceproto xineramaproto openssl yum install xorg-x11-xtrans-devel openssl-devel libfontenc-devel libfontenc pixman-devel pixman libXau-devel libXau libxkbfile-devel libxkbfile libXfont libXfont-devel libXinerama libXinerama-devel xorg-x11-xtrans-devel libpciaccess-devel I then Installed the latest nvidia drivers with the options --no-x-check because everytime i try to kill X or gdm.static it simply refuses and restarts in a second or so. Is there a way to run in init 3 mode? On the live USB version it is possible to add init 3 at the end and get a command prompt. Is there a way of doing this with the installed version? Now the box doesnt boot. It just hangs and says moblin right after grub. Where did i go wrong? Also the ethernet does not work on my acer revo. I'll have a look at that later. Thanks Brendan >* On 9 Jun 2009, at 17:19, Piotr Kempa <piotr.kempa at sigarden.com ><https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>> 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 <piotr.kempa at sigarden.com <https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>> 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
