On Friday, December 30, 2011 10:56 AM James Knott wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 04:25:49 PM James Knott wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
I just removed nouveau and rebooted. The system seems more responsive now and top shows xorg at more normal levels. I'll have to see how it does in use.
How you removed nouveau ? it is part of the kernel... echo "blacklist nouveau">> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf should be enough.
As I mentioned in another note, it was listed in Software Manager. I simply deleted it by replacing the check mark with an X. The package removed was:
xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards
While removing xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau should: - remove xorg part of nouveau - blacklist kernel module nuveau - rebuild initrd without nouveau and with nvidia kernel module
You can check is it the case with:
lsmod | grep nouveau
which will show is kernel driver nouveau still loaded. If it is then your video system most likely has no access to 3D.
Actually:
hwinfo --gfxcard
should give you comprehensive output that has only one problem, it is verbose :)
I just ran both of those commands and here's the response:
linux:~ # lsmod | grep nouveau linux:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard 29: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: VCu0.jMHgafQ0xQE Parent ID: vuMS.wxFwtL2jas4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce 7300 GS" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x01df "GeForce 7300 GS" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x81f3 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nvidia" Driver Modules: "nvidia" Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd1000000-0xd1ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd2000000-0xd201ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 18 (10694994 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000001DFsv00001043sd000081F3bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #24 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #29
As you can see, there was no output from lsmod | grep nouveau, so I assume that means it's not loaded.
Right, it's blacklisted. Or conceivably - I've never tested this - the kernel will simply fail to load the module if the driver is not present, but that would be an "error" and probably in the log. In any event, if you search in the Software Manager for nouveau in the "file list", you will find it in both the xorg package (the driver) and the kernel-desktop package (the module). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org