From: Donn W. <n5...@co...> - 2010-05-17 14:13:10
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On 05/17/2010 03:09 AM, Sid Boyce wrote: > OK, I shall have to build FlightGear latest and try it again. > Regards > Sid. > > On 17/05/10 02:10, Donn Washburn wrote: > >> Hey Group; >> >> Success! I took loading modules that hwinfo --glxcard said I needed so >> they are not loaded. And I removed --ignoreABI from xserverrc. Loaded >> a NV.run that Sid Boyce suggested (It does complain about ABI). Fired >> up X and fgfs fired up correctly. I guess the problem was NV saw the >> nouveau module as a rivafb module. Good news is Flightgear is working. >> >> On 05/16/2010 04:28 PM, 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. >>>> >>>> > > > By the way their CVS is down. Both FlightGear and Simgear timeout. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5...@co... " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5...@ar... " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 |