re: [Flightgear-devel] Wish me luck...

[David M. <da...@me...>]

Cameron Moore writes:

 > So, I guess I'll be installing a new graphics card tonight after I do a
 > little more testing on the JSBSim init stuff.  If anyone wants to share
 > any catch-22's on getting nVidia drivers working in Debian unstable,
 > feel free to drop me a line.  ;-)  Thanks...

I just got a GeForce2 Go working with Debian unstable (sid) last
weekend.  It's actually pretty straight-forward, but here are a couple
of clues:

1. Use the XF86Config.sample included in /usr/share/doc/ and edit it
to suit.  Start by disabling AGP (but AGP 4x is running fine on my
notebook).

2. To see if your card's working, cat /proc/nv/card0.

3. I use agpgart for AGP (in XF86Config-4, Option "NvAgp" "2"); make
sure it's compiled into your kernel (in /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_AGP="m", and, for my system, "CONFIG_AGP_IBM="y"), and that DRI
is enabled as well (ditto, CONFIG_DRM="y"); just to be safe, though,
don't enable any of the specific DRI drivers.

4. When you're ready to play with configuration options, the
os-registry.c file in the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251 distro lists all of
the driver options; you trigger them like this:

  modprobe NVdriver NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

(or add an options line to /etc/modules.conf).  These specific options
don't seem to work on the GeForce2 Go, but that's life.  Apparently
SBA buys only a couple of fps anyway.

That's about it.  Good luck.


All the best,


David

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