Re: [Flightgear-users] OpenGL graphics context

[Sid B. <sb...@bl...>]

Sounds a good move. I have taken it out of my kernel config on the boxes
that need 3D.
Regards
Sid.

On 16/05/10 22:28, 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 <sb...@bl...>:
>> 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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