[opensuse] No DRI in 11.4, using nvidia driver.
I have a Sony VPCF1 laptop that has an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 chip set. The proprietary Nvidia driver (NVIDIA 260.19.36) loads and runs. But I do not get direct rendering. I do not see messages in the X server log saying it was disabled, but glxinfo says it is disabled, and I cannot get desktop effects. And programs like the LLNL VisIt application run dog slow. I am not sure where to start. Select parts of glxinfo are: server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 260.19.36) Could it be the client glx part that is wrong? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> [03-18-11 18:55]:
I have a Sony VPCF1 laptop that has an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 chip set. The proprietary Nvidia driver (NVIDIA 260.19.36) loads and runs. But I do not get direct rendering. I do not see messages in the X server log saying it was disabled, but glxinfo says it is disabled, and I cannot get desktop effects. And programs like the LLNL VisIt application run dog slow.
I'm running an NVidia GeForct GT 450 in a new desktop with the 260.19.44 driver version and direct rendering is set. You might try the later version. My desktop is a home build i7-960 with intel DX58S02 mb. ps: If you are getting the information remotely, it will not show the remote stats. I see no direct rendering running glxinfo via ssh. I cannot even see the correct glxcard. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 19:21 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> [03-18-11 18:55]:
I have a Sony VPCF1 laptop that has an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 chip set. The proprietary Nvidia driver (NVIDIA 260.19.36) loads and runs. But I do not get direct rendering. I do not see messages in the X server log saying it was disabled, but glxinfo says it is disabled, and I cannot get desktop effects. And programs like the LLNL VisIt application run dog slow.
I'm running an NVidia GeForct GT 450 in a new desktop with the 260.19.44 driver version and direct rendering is set. You might try the later version. My desktop is a home build i7-960 with intel DX58S02 mb.
ps: If you are getting the information remotely, it will not show the remote stats. I see no direct rendering running glxinfo via ssh. I cannot even see the correct glxcard.
It is on the local machine. I added a new user so I would get 'new' KDE settings. It made little difference. I can get some things faster if I use XRender. But DRI remains off, and OpenGL unavailable. So, I will be trying the latest version of the driver. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 19:21 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> [03-18-11 18:55]:
I have a Sony VPCF1 laptop that has an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 chip set. The proprietary Nvidia driver (NVIDIA 260.19.36) loads and runs. But I do not get direct rendering. I do not see messages in the X server log saying it was disabled, but glxinfo says it is disabled, and I cannot get desktop effects. And programs like the LLNL VisIt application run dog slow.
I'm running an NVidia GeForct GT 450 in a new desktop with the 260.19.44 driver version and direct rendering is set. You might try the later version. My desktop is a home build i7-960 with intel DX58S02 mb.
I installed this. Yikes. Now kdeinit4 crashes almost first thing, resulting in a black display. I can get a little window to type commands. I reverted to the original drivers as I had before, but this did not help. Sigh. I saw that the nvidia driver install looked around for what it called conflicting components when it was installed. I don't know what it may have done beside installing the X and kernel drivers. And I guess it may have not been set back by reinstalling the original SUSE components (X and kernel driver). Up to this point, I was a happy 11.4 user. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 20. März 2011, 21:47:48 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I reverted to the original drivers as I had before, but this did not help. Sigh. I saw that the nvidia driver install looked around for what it called conflicting components when it was installed. I don't know what it may have done beside installing the X and kernel drivers. And I guess it may have not been set back by reinstalling the original SUSE components (X and kernel driver).
You have to run the nvidia installer with --uninstall before installing the packages and remove the packages before installing via the installer. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:54 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 20. März 2011, 21:47:48 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I reverted to the original drivers as I had before, but this did not help. Sigh. I saw that the nvidia driver install looked around for what it called conflicting components when it was installed. I don't know what it may have done beside installing the X and kernel drivers. And I guess it may have not been set back by reinstalling the original SUSE components (X and kernel driver).
You have to run the nvidia installer with --uninstall before installing the packages and remove the packages before installing via the installer.
I kind of felt that was the case after I re-installed the suse rpms. I know the proper order is think, then do. Knowing is one thing... I will try again. I bet with my luck installing the suse stuff in between will have done bad evil things...
Sven
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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 21:57 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:54 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
You have to run the nvidia installer with --uninstall before installing the packages and remove the packages before installing via the installer.
I kind of felt that was the case after I re-installed the suse rpms. I know the proper order is think, then do. Knowing is one thing...
I will try again. I bet with my luck installing the suse stuff in between will have done bad evil things...
Lucky me. I uninstalled the non-suse nvidia drivers, and all seems back to where I started. Which is good. But I would still like to get the DRI stuff working (original thread topic). -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 22:06 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: [Old thread about DRI not being available as stated in subject.] I have had a chance to look in to this a bit more. It gets more weird: If I log in as joe user (member of video group) and run glxgears, it complains that DRI is not available. Same if I run something like xbmc. However, if I 'su -' to root, both of these work great. Note that I have not restarted X or anything. I have just switched to root in a konsole and entered the command. Typing the same command but as the original logged in user fails. Here is the more weird part: if I log in to KDE as root, it also does NOT work. Running a command at the Konsole prompt claims that DRI is not available. I would have thought if it was a permission thing, the root user would be gold. Especially given that a 'su' to said user has a positive effect. If I run nvidia-setup (or nvidia-settings - I forget which it is called and the machine is not handy), it always claims that DRI is available. I feel that there is a clue here. But I am not sure what to check. The X config is the one out-of-the-box. There is no xorg.conf, and I am rather certain that I have not mucked about with any of the other config files. I guess I should check that against the RPMs. Strange things have been known to happen late at night... Any other suggestions for things to check? Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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