Sounds a good move. I have taken it out of my kernel config on the boxes that need 3D. Regards Sid.
On 16/05/10 22:28, stefan riemens wrote: > If you want to disable nouveau (I believe that's the correct > spelling...) you can try to append nomodeset or nouveau.nomodeset to > your kernel boot line. This will prevent nouveau from loading and > allow you to use the nvidia driver. At least this is how it works in > Fedora. > > BTW, while nouveau's 3d support is great news, it won't be any good > for flightgear. It is currently still experimental (not enabled by > default) and targets merely gnome-shell and compiz and the like. I.E. > only a well defined subset of the OpenGL api so far. It does that very > well though here. > > Stefan > > 2010/5/16, Sid Boyce <sbo...@blueyonder.co.uk>: >> On 16/05/10 17:34, Donn Washburn wrote: >>> On 05/16/2010 08:13 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: >>>> I run fedora here, and not suse, but if I saw this on a fedora system, >>>> the very next thing I would do is reinstall my nvidia graphics >>>> drivers. Often, system updates step on the nvidia driver pieces >>>> forcing a reinstall. >>>> >>>> There is also something new in Xorg for Fedora 12 ... an open source >>>> driver for nvidia cards called noveuau (probably have an off by one >>>> error on the spelling) is installed by default. This driver seems to >>>> work really well for 2d operations, but not for 3d, so I've taken >>>> steps on my system to disable it and install the nvidia drivers from >>>> nvidia.com <http://nvidia.com> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Curt. >>>> >>>> >>>> Guess what? glxgears fails also. >>>> # glxgears >>>> glxgears: Error: glXCreateContext failed >>>> >>>> And fgfs strill fails after everything was recompiled. >>>> >>>> as root even> # fgfs >>>> Error: Unable to create OpenGL graphics context. >>>> Error: Unable to create OpenGL graphics context. >>>> Segmentation fault >>>> >>>> Notice the word "context" in both errors >>>> >>>>> >>> There has been a lot of chatter about the nouveau driver lately >>> concerning openSuSE's elist. Thing like xorg no longer needs >>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It seems xorg chooses the best match video driver >>> (if your card supports this) and then interrogates the card for all of >>> the variable it needs. If it fails - tough luck. I have even >>> seen/heard that the kernel will be handling the video soon. So, say >>> good bye to a lot of past years functionality. >>> Like <CTRL><ALT><+/->. My guess is about all distros will soon follow >>> xorg, nouveau and the kernel. Bad News! >>> >> >> Not really bad news, when nouveau does 3D, expected in Fedora 13. >> CTRL-ALT+/- , i.e changing resolutions can be done using xrandr and I >> would hope from within KDE and Gnome menus. >> The kernel handles most drivers that's why you don't have to find that >> CD you know you had or get online when your link is down to get >> something to work. If nouveau 3D goes in, good news that I don't have to >> fiddle with NVidia's driver that often fails when the kernel ABI >> changes. If NVidia would open source it, then the kernel guys could >> maintain it. >> Regards >> Sid. >> As Linus told the suits, Linux is evolution, not intelligent design. >> -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
