On Saturday 12 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bob Williams
[05-11-07 13:52]: Having been unsuccessful with my ATI Radeon card, I treated myself to an nVidia 7600 graphics card. I've added the download.nvidia repository and installed the drivers, but running glxgears gives the following
:~> glxgears
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". 1074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 214.689 FPS 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.026 FPS 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.039 FPS 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.031 FPS 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.034 FPS
I'm sure it should do better than that, and I'm not sure what to do about that missing extension :(
Any suggestions, please?
sounds like it is using the provided 'nv' instead of the new nvidia driver. btw, which version did you install? I am successfully using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.03-pkg2.run
I have used both NVIDIA and ATI from RPMs provided. It is the easiest way as you do not have to rebuild the driver every time you update your kernel. For nvidia rpm put this: http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ in your installation sources and update your drivers through YAST. Then configure as suggested bellow.
do from command-line: glxinfo | grep direct you should get: direct rendering: Yes
if not, do from command-line: grep -i nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it returns nv and not nvidia, as root from a console in runlevel 3, run either: nvidia-xconfig or sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
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