On Friday 11 May 2007 20:02:57 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-11-07 13:52]: > > Having been unsuccessful with my ATI Radeon card, I treated myself to > > an nVidia 7600 graphics card. I've added the download.nvidia > > repository and installed the drivers, but running glxgears gives the > > following > > > > :~> glxgears > > > > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > > 1074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 214.689 FPS > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.026 FPS > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.039 FPS > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.031 FPS > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.034 FPS > > > > I'm sure it should do better than that, and I'm not sure what to do > > about that missing extension :( > > > > Any suggestions, please? > > sounds like it is using the provided 'nv' instead of the new nvidia > driver. btw, which version did you install? I am successfully using > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.03-pkg2.run > > do from command-line: glxinfo | grep direct > you should get: direct rendering: Yes > No, I get direct rendering: No
> if not, do from command-line: grep -i nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf > if it returns nv and not nvidia, and this gives me ~> grep -i nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thu Nov 9 17:55:59 PST 2006 Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA" > as root from a console in runlevel 3, > run either: > nvidia-xconfig > or > sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia > so I fall between two stools. It's nearly midnight here, so I'm off to bed. Thanks for your input, Patrick. Bob -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]