Mark Richard and other trying their best to help me!!!,
It seems that I am so near - yet so far so any help woudl be gratefull
received!
Here are the answers to what is installed on my machine as far as I can
tell!
Restricted Drivers manager lists two drivers:
Lucent/Agere linmodem controller driver
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver
Both are ticked as enabled. Nvidia has green "button" for In use.
Synaptic Package manager tells me:
I have installed:
nvidia-glx NVIDIA - binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver
nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
xserver-xorg-video-nv - X.Org X server -- NV display driver. The
notes say,
"This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further
description)provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT, GeForce, and Quadro
cards.
Note that this is not the same as the binary-only 'nvidia' driver, which
adds 3D support, but is binary-only and not supported."
The relevant bit of my my xorg.conf is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
I notice that Composite is Disabled. I bet it is not a simple matter of
changing that entry!!
As you asked:
The web suggest:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite
and no I have not done that yet
Richard - I can get Beryl Manager to run, (Alt-F2 did not work for me so
I used a terminal) and all the settings look good and fun - but I can
find no way to activate it! I think I am back to this "Composite
Extension not available" One of the settings if I right-click the red
diamond is, "Select Windows Manager" It was on "Metacity - Gnome
Windows Manager" I changed it to Beryl, the screen flashed a bit as
open windows were ? redrawn, but to no avail. It went back to "Metacity .."
Thanks in advance for any help
Ed
Mark Rogers wrote:
Edward Kerr wrote:
Umm not as easy as it seems!
It never is :-)
I'm going to try a new install of 7.04 over the weekend on one of my
work desktops, if I'm allowed into work over the weekend. That's a
fairly standard box with an Nvidia card so should be a reasonable test.
The restricted drivers section tells me that I do have NVIDIA
installed and working. However, the web suggests:
What exactly does it say?
I have to say I find the restricted drivers tool very confusing and I'm
never quite sure what it means, because:
I note from Synaptic I have "NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver"
installed.
That suggests you have the FOSS driver installed, not the Nvidia binary.
If you look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which driver is it loading? I suspect
is has the nv driver (FOSS), not nvidia (proprietary binary)
You can install the right driver through synaptic, but I suspect you've
got the wrong one because it's not really clear which is which. have you
tried:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite
.. yet?
Alternatively, find the nvidia-glx package through synaptic and see if
its installed. I'm sure(ish!) I didn't need to manually configure the
driver, so I think you just have the wrong one installed (like I said
it's not obvious which is which, they're both labelled as nvidia
drivers). Don't uninstall the FOSS driver though, its useful if you have
problems to be able to switch back to it (usually manually editing
xorg.conf as root and changing nvidia to nv is enough, which is very
handy if something breaks; it's happened to me once).
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