On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've been trying to get hardware graphics acceleration working. > i've read the dox & looked at the more obvious things (i hope). > my graphics card is 'GeForce4 MX440 w AGP 8x'. > > first, i tried using Gentoo's emerges 'nvidia-kernel' & 'nvidia-glx'; > in XF86Config, i commented 'load "dri"' & changed to 'Driver "nvidia"'; > i also did 'opengl-update nvidia' & 'modprobe nvidia'. > 'startx' started KDE, but once started it became very slow, then stopped. > > second, i tried using Nvidia's own 'run' file; X wouldn't start at all. > > 3 things seem to be wrong. > > (1) the Gentoo approach doesn't create the correct libs: > there's a list in the Nvidia README & most of them aren't where they sb: > eg /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.x.y.z is missing > & ditto/libglx.so -> /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so , > not to ditto/libglx.so.x.y.z , as the Nvidia doc says it shd; > similarly for /usr/lib/libGL.so.x.y.z & ditto/libGLcore.ditto . > they are correctly in place after the Nvidia 'run' file is used. > > (2) the Nvidia README says installation shd create files in /dev , > ie nvidia0 1 2 3 ctl , which weren't there with either method of > install'n. > > (3) /var/log/XFree86.0.log says "module(s) glx/nvidia compiled for > 4.0.2", whereas all the other modules loaded were compiled for 4.3.0 . > back with my usual working system (software acceler'n), > modules 'glx' & 'nv' are compiled for 4.3.0 . > the log does claim that "AGP 8x was successfully initialised". > > problem (1) seems to be with Gentoo's ebuilds; > (2) mb with something like devfs, which i've never had to look into; > (3) may mean i need to compile the modules specially myself: > i've never compiled a kernel or module explicitly > (Nvidia's 'run' compiled the interface this time), > but i'm always willing to learn to do new things. > > any suggestions wb most gratefully received. Hi, I'm using Nvidia GeForce4-MX-440-SE with kernels: 2.4.20-rX, 2.4.22 and 2.4.23. Had to install it on initial install and after that to recompile it for each new kernel, All went OK, just follow the docs /Desktop-guide i think/. No problems for me. Maybe you should check the docs again. Hope that helps. Rumen.
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