Nvidia splash screen?
Hi, Quick question: with the latest nvidia driver and SuSE 9.3 Pro, should I see the normal nvidia splash screen when X starts up/resets? Here's the output of 3Ddiag: # 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.724 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce2 MX 100/200 (10de@0111)": Verifying driver installation: nvidia ... done. 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) Cheers, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon
On Friday 24 June 2005 17:21, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Quick question: with the latest nvidia driver and SuSE 9.3 Pro, should I see the normal nvidia splash screen when X starts up/resets?
Do you worry about not seeing the splash or about not having OpenGL support? 3Diag already shows you have it, but other ways are: KDE Lauch/System/Monitor/OpenGL Something empiric: run glxgears and see if it takes >90% processor. If it doesn't, you have hardware OpenGL support in place.
Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi,
Quick question: with the latest nvidia driver and SuSE 9.3 Pro, should I see the normal nvidia splash screen when X starts up/resets?
This should depend on what you have in /etc/X11/XF86Config. I have: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce4 MX 440" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 Option "NoLogo" Option "backingstore" Option "Rotate" "off" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection The 'Option "NoLogo"' suppresses the splash screen. -- JDL
Hi, First off - I don't have an XF86Config file only xorg.conf - should I make a symlink to this? I've had a look at XFree86.0.log (in /var/log) and it seems like the appropriate bits (driver, glx) are being loaded. So, based on an earlier suggestion I ran glxgears and looked at the CPU utilization (using top). It appears that for this card (Geforce2 MX200) I get ~300 fps, but 98% CPU usage. So I'm guessing that the driver isn't working, right? Incidentally on a SuSE 9.2 machine with a Geforce FX5200, I do have an XF86Config file, again it looks like the driver is being loaded correctly, but I still have ~95% CPU usage when running glxgears (800 fps). The only common link between both machines is that they are both using Gnome rather than KDE. What is the definitive test for whether things are installed and running correctly? How do I "switch" the system such that it uses NVidia's glx rather than Mesa/freeglut? Thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, Jon. John D Lamb wrote:
Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi,
Quick question: with the latest nvidia driver and SuSE 9.3 Pro, should I see the normal nvidia splash screen when X starts up/resets?
This should depend on what you have in /etc/X11/XF86Config. I have:
Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce4 MX 440" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 Option "NoLogo" Option "backingstore" Option "Rotate" "off" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection
The 'Option "NoLogo"' suppresses the splash screen.
-- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon
On Monday 27 June 2005 16:11, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
What is the definitive test for whether things are installed and running correctly? How do I "switch" the system such that it uses NVidia's glx rather than Mesa/freeglut?
KDE Lauch/System/Monitor/OpenGL or corresponding menu entry in Gnome. or run "glxinfo" as root and see if you have "direct rendering Yes"
Hi Silviu, Thanks for the info - direct rendering = YES! So I guess that glxgears will always load the CPU, even if the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly? Or is there something else that I need to check? E.g. hardware accelerated OpenGL? Cheers, Jon. Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 27 June 2005 16:11, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
What is the definitive test for whether things are installed and running correctly? How do I "switch" the system such that it uses NVidia's glx rather than Mesa/freeglut?
KDE Lauch/System/Monitor/OpenGL or corresponding menu entry in Gnome.
or run "glxinfo" as root and see if you have "direct rendering Yes"
-- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon
you can also check /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status to see what speed and or if agp is being used. B-) On Monday 27 June 2005 08:24 am, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi Silviu,
Thanks for the info - direct rendering = YES! So I guess that glxgears will always load the CPU, even if the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly? Or is there something else that I need to check? E.g. hardware accelerated OpenGL?
Cheers, Jon.
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 27 June 2005 16:11, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
What is the definitive test for whether things are installed and running correctly? How do I "switch" the system such that it uses NVidia's glx rather than Mesa/freeglut?
KDE Lauch/System/Monitor/OpenGL or corresponding menu entry in Gnome.
or run "glxinfo" as root and see if you have "direct rendering Yes"
-- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:24, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi Silviu,
Thanks for the info - direct rendering = YES! So I guess that glxgears will always load the CPU, even if the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly?
Yes, it appears so. What I've just said about glxgears not loading the processor seems to be nonsense. I was running another program that was altering what the CPU monitor showed. I get 800+ FPS on a GeForce2MX too. So, you have all working well.
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:48, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:24, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi Silviu,
Thanks for the info - direct rendering = YES! So I guess that glxgears will always load the CPU, even if the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly?
Yes, it appears so. What I've just said about glxgears not loading the processor seems to be nonsense. I was running another program that was altering what the CPU monitor showed.
I get 800+ FPS on a GeForce2MX too.
Another empirical test is to run Chromium BSU (it's a game included in the kit). If it's playable at all, you have hardware OpenGL. If it's not (1 fps or less) there's only Mesa software emulation.
Silviu, On Monday 27 June 2005 07:54, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
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Another empirical test is to run Chromium BSU (it's a game included in the kit). If it's playable at all, you have hardware OpenGL. If it's not (1 fps or less) there's only Mesa software emulation.
Interesting. That's the first OpenGL program I've found that doesn't peg the CPU consumption all or most of the time. In fact, it seems to require almost no CPU at all, even when playing the game. Celestia is a total CPU hog--100% CPU at all times. Randall Schulz
Who cares if it's killing my CPU, Chromium rocks :) 50 frames per second of blasting fun! Though it would be nice to have some sound - any ideas? Cheers, Jon. Randall R Schulz wrote:
Silviu,
On Monday 27 June 2005 07:54, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
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Another empirical test is to run Chromium BSU (it's a game included in the kit). If it's playable at all, you have hardware OpenGL. If it's not (1 fps or less) there's only Mesa software emulation.
Interesting. That's the first OpenGL program I've found that doesn't peg the CPU consumption all or most of the time. In fact, it seems to require almost no CPU at all, even when playing the game. Celestia is a total CPU hog--100% CPU at all times.
Randall Schulz
-- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon
Make sure you've got the latest version. I'm running 9.2 and hadn't installed it before. Once installed (from habit) I ran YOU and found this description for a patch Fixed openal alsa backend. Blender, boson and chromium (no sound) suffered from this problem. Other 3rd party applications/games like glest (no start possible) were affected as well. B-) On Monday 27 June 2005 12:21 pm, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Hi!
Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 19:14 schrieb Jonathan Brooks:
Though it would be nice to have some sound - any ideas?
Do you have amarok running? For me amarok blocks sound for games like ET.
Sven
Jonathan, On Monday 27 June 2005 10:14, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Who cares if it's killing my CPU, Chromium rocks :) 50 frames per second of blasting fun!
Eh? I said it _doesn't_ soak up much CPU. That's what surprises me.
Though it would be nice to have some sound - any ideas?
Sound works in Chromium for me.
Cheers, Jon.
Randall Schulz
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On 6/27/05, Tora TORAMAN
Hello
My Operating System is SuSE 9.3 Pro. 64 Bit and I have a SAGEM FAST 908 modem. How can i install this modems drivers. Please help me.
http://dev.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=DocumentationFonctionnalitesUs http://faq.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=ModemSupport these should help. The second link says the driver supports your model. Peter
Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi,
First off - I don't have an XF86Config file only xorg.conf - should I make a symlink to this?
No. My /etc/X11/XF8Config is just a symlink to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which is the file I should have suggested looking at. Generally the driver should be "nvidia" rather than "nv" for the nvidia driver. glxinfo should give something like: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation ... -- JDL
On Monday 27 June 2005 14:46, John D Lamb wrote:
Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi,
First off - I don't have an XF86Config file only xorg.conf - should I make a symlink to this?
No. My /etc/X11/XF8Config is just a symlink to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which is the file I should have suggested looking at.
Ummmm..I am running 9.2, KDE 3.4, 64 bit with the nvidia driver loaded. My xorg.conf is not being used. It still has the specs and info for an old monitor that I changed out about a month ago. My system appears to be using the XF86Conf file now. This discussion is beginning to worry me that something is wrong with my setup.
Generally the driver should be "nvidia" rather than "nv" for the nvidia driver. glxinfo should give something like:
name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation ... That is what I get from glxinfo.
Bob S.
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