Re: nvidia working?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question than -hackers. The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a different driver). There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful for that. YMMV. Thanks! Looks like I really do finally have that card/driver working right, too. Sure 'preciate the ideas. JN -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjj9wz62J6PPcoOkRAjmBAJ405DDYxex5XhZIXm7X+7OVJghXwwCfWoBp pJ1g1hqT6Vp7AEifghRGx+c= =1XCQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia working?
Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question than -hackers. The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a different driver). There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful for that. YMMV. JN ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia working?
On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:26 PM, John Nielsen wrote: The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a different driver). There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful for that. YMMV. JN Yeah, I agree on both points: 1. Xorg.*.log will most likely yield the info you need about the nvidia driver. X -probe may as well.. 2. nvidia-settings was sort of useless for my purposes.. you may or may not discover that as well after using the tool. Its Windows counterpart is much more useful. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia working?
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. xlock -mode atunnel is a good work out. bzflag simply will grind to a halt without GL acceleration. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia working?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question than -hackers. True, but I didn't open this thread up, I just grabbed onto the tail of one that was already opened for me. It was opened on hackers, and I figured it would be too much, both to hijack a thread because it seemed to be ending, AND also to redirect it to -questions. I know I get no credit for realizing that another list would have beeen better, most especially because I figured that multimedia would have been the better list, not - -questions. The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a different driver). There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful for that. YMMV. Now, THAT's what i was after, I figure that nvidia-settings thingy ought to answer my is my nvidia card working in nvidia mode? question well enough. JN ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjBgYz62J6PPcoOkRAqGtAJ9CSfMBnrfTUAgNw7P9KDU832wedACgkfes +55Sx6lrv+bKRrI/wqZvbDU= =PFQt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia working?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:26 PM, John Nielsen wrote: The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a different driver). There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful for that. YMMV. OK, that left mre a ton of questions, but I think some time spent looking at files might answer them, so in case I can't answer them all, I'll be back at you. Thanks! JN Yeah, I agree on both points: 1. Xorg.*.log will most likely yield the info you need about the nvidia driver. X -probe may as well.. 2. nvidia-settings was sort of useless for my purposes.. you may or may not discover that as well after using the tool. Its Windows counterpart is much more useful. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjBaez62J6PPcoOkRApClAKChGW3QQgmDP3pR2XLkd4a2kM8lTQCdEy+j Tb6lrwjGIJvxsbMFAhNu2w0= =Xmxz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
