OK, I shall have to build FlightGear latest and try it again. Regards Sid. On 17/05/10 02:10, Donn Washburn wrote: > Hey Group; > > Success! I took loading modules that hwinfo --glxcard said I needed so > they are not loaded. And I removed --ignoreABI from xserverrc. Loaded > a NV.run that Sid Boyce suggested (It does complain about ABI). Fired > up X and fgfs fired up correctly. I guess the problem was NV saw the > nouveau module as a rivafb module. Good news is Flightgear is working. > > On 05/16/2010 04:28 PM, 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. >>>
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