[opensuse-factory] NVIDIA state
I installed Factory more than a week ago in one of my laptops (T410). I could not get nouveau or the proprietary nvidia driver to work, until I found some posts pointing to home:/jobermayr/ which made nouveau work. The proprietary driver still gives a black screen (I updated X11:Driver:Video to 280.13 even). Later Factory had more updates, including nouveau, I updated, and everything was broken again. So home:/jobermayr is still required and I have to lock them or reinstall them after a dup. (why are those fixes not integrated? will they?) On my workstation, not even with home:/jobermayr I can get a working GNOME3. Both nouveau and proprietary driver (280.13) work only in fallback mode. I tried a Fedora Alpha LiveCD today, and it graphics worked out of the box on the workstation. x11 nouveau is 8378443 kernel 3.0.0 mesa dri drivers: 7.11-0.16 20110620 So what is causing all this mess? kernel? nouveau-x11? Mesa? What is the plan with jobermayr fixes? I updated the proprietary driver .spec files to use 280.13 (just a sed op). Are those changes wanted or are those kept up with an older version for a reason? I guess it will be time to try zypper dup to downgrade myself :-( Cheers Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Le 12/09/2011 15:36, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. a écrit :
I installed Factory more than a week ago in one of my laptops (T410).
I could not get nouveau or the proprietary nvidia driver to work, until I found some posts pointing to home:/jobermayr/ which made nouveau work. The proprietary driver still gives a black screen (I updated X11:Driver:Video to 280.13 even). Later Factory had more updates, including nouveau, I updated, and everything was broken again. So home:/jobermayr is still required and I have to lock them or reinstall them after a dup.
(why are those fixes not integrated? will they?)
On my workstation, not even with home:/jobermayr I can get a working GNOME3. Both nouveau and proprietary driver (280.13) work only in fallback mode.
I tried a Fedora Alpha LiveCD today, and it graphics worked out of the box on the workstation.
x11 nouveau is 8378443 kernel 3.0.0 mesa dri drivers: 7.11-0.16 20110620
So what is causing all this mess? kernel? nouveau-x11? Mesa?
What is the plan with jobermayr fixes? I updated the proprietary driver .spec files to use 280.13 (just a sed op). Are those changes wanted or are those kept up with an older version for a reason?
I guess it will be time to try zypper dup to downgrade myself :-(
Cheers Duncan
What is the name of you nvidia card ? The nouveau DDX driver (xog-x11-driver-video-nouveau) from factory is 7 month old, and does not support recent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 09/12/2011 04:46 PM, Vincent wrote:
What is the name of you nvidia card ? The nouveau DDX driver (xog-x11-driver-video-nouveau) from factory is 7 month old, and does not support recent
Did I mention the proprietary driver did not work on both machines? acceleration was not available. In the laptop where it works with the alternative nouveau package, is a T410, so a NVS3100M On my workstation where is completely broken, it is an older card. GeForce 7300 GT. Before updating to Factory it was working fine with the blob. About nouveau: I am quite shocked to find out that the driver package that makes gfx work in half of the machines out there is abandoned. This has a huge impact for end users. But lets do something about it. Initially I updated it to what I found in the Fedora LiveCD, but then I updated it to what the maintainer submited to rawhide. The maintainer should know what version is good :-). I also added a patch that he added on top for NV3. created request id 81975 Duncan
On 09/13/2011 10:49 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
About nouveau: I am quite shocked to find out that the driver package that makes gfx work in half of the machines out there is abandoned. This has a huge impact for end users. But lets do something about it. Initially I updated it to what I found in the Fedora LiveCD, but then I updated it to what the maintainer submited to rawhide. The maintainer should know what version is good :-). I also added a patch that he added on top for NV3.
created request id 81975
Well, the update of x11-video-nouveau did not help my workstation. I am suspecting now the problem is on the GNOME side. With the proprietary driver the driver on System Info -> Graphics appears empty. With nouveau, I get fallback mode as well, but the interesting part is the driver is detected correctly as "Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)" but with "Fallback" experience, and glxgears show more fps than my Intel laptop where GNOME3 works. I tried both with Factory Mesa and home:jobermayr Mesa + Mesa-nouveu3d (yes, on Factory Mesa-nouveu3d is now part of Mesa... :-/ ) without different results. As I mentioned, Fedora Alpha LiveCD works (3.0 kernel). Any ideas on what else to look? -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 09/14/2011 10:39 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
With nouveau, I get fallback mode as well, but the interesting part is the driver is detected correctly as "Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)" but with "Fallback" experience, and glxgears show more fps than my Intel laptop where GNOME3 works.
I tried both with Factory Mesa and home:jobermayr Mesa + Mesa-nouveu3d (yes, on Factory Mesa-nouveu3d is now part of Mesa... :-/ ) without different results.
As I mentioned, Fedora Alpha LiveCD works (3.0 kernel).
Any ideas on what else to look?
Some other info that may be interesting: dmacvicar@piscola:~> /usr/lib/gnome-session-check-accelerated dmacvicar@piscola:~> echo $? 1 dmacvicar@piscola:~> /usr/lib/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper nvfx_screen_get_param:99 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 50 nvfx_screen_get_param:99 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 51 dmacvicar@piscola:~> echo $? 0 dmacvicar@piscola:~> glxinfo name of display: :0.0 nvfx_screen_get_param:99 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 50 nvfx_screen_get_param:99 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 51 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions: ... client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: ... OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV4B OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (f0bfc0d) OpenGL extensions: ... glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: ... -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Mandag den 12. september 2011 15:36:41 skrev Duncan Mac-Vicar P.:
I installed Factory more than a week ago in one of my laptops (T410).
I could not get nouveau or the proprietary nvidia driver to work
So what is causing all this mess? kernel? nouveau-x11? Mesa?
There was recently a mistake in Qt packages causing a black screen. I wonder if that might be the explaination for (some of) your problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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