Okay - trying to get to the bottom of this. Why is it that 3Ddiag fails to detect that I have nvidia drivers installed, when they patently are installed, and everything 3D related is working???? Here's the output of 3Ddiag, and it's a PCI-E card. If I look with nvidia-config it reports that I have the 8178 driver installed? So what's up??? /etc/X11 # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.728 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (10de@0161)": Verifying driver installation: nvidia ... failed! ======================= !!! WARNING !!! ======================== Due to license issues only a Dummy Nvidia 2D/3D driver with Software 3D/OpenGL rendering is provided. Please download the official 2D/3D Nvidia driver from the nVidia webserver (http://www.nvidia.com), if you want to use 3D hardware accelerated 3D/OpenGL. ================================================================ Tests for X.Org configuration: Config File /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... done. Driver ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration: GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa) glut ... done (package freeglut) Kenneth Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 07:22, you wrote:
OK, the solution was to add myself to the video user group in /etc/group - login is being handled by LDAP server. To be honest, if I'd bothered to read the NVidia support pages properly, I would have seen that this was a required step for GL applications to work properly.
However, even with this step - 3Ddiag still thinks that my drivers aren't installed properly. What's that all about?
This is what 3Ddiag tells me here (when run as root) (Suse 9.2):
wolverine:~ # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.722 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************
Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation 0x0322 (10de@0322)":
Verifying driver installation: nvidia ... done.
Tests for X.Org configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done.
Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration: GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa) glut ... done (package freeglut)
Here are some select parts of myXF86Config that metion things related to the card/3D/nvidia: ... Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "v4l" Load "vnc" EndSection ... Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce FX 5700VE" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "ConnectedMonitors" "DFP" Option "usevnc" "yes" Screen 0 Option "Rotate" "off" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard[2]" "ExtraKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "ExtraPointer" Option "Clone" "off" Option "VNC" "3 2" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection
Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection
I never use SAX2 to setup the XF86Config. It is the tool of the devil (;-). It rarely works, it almost always messes up the modelines and mouse settings. I set things up by hand once and keep a backup of the XF86Config on another computer.
Thanks, Ken Jennings
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