I have an nVidia Corporation GeForce 6800 GT graphics card. I recall reading somewhere there were problems with some nVidia cards an SuSE 10. I really don't understand what I get from the nVidia proprietary software that is installed by the YaST script. Do I need the xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-100.i586.rpm? Would it make any difference if it were installed or not? The reason I asked is that I just built OpenSceneGraph and when I ran it I got this message: Warning: Producer::RenderSurface, under the X11 environment has tested the glXWaitVideoSyncSGI extension and found it to not be working properly. This does not necessarily mean that glXSwapBuffers will not block on VSYNC, but it does mean that the CPU bound application will not be able to synchronize with the graphics video retrace signal. Most operations will work fine. Steven
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 8:31 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I have an nVidia Corporation GeForce 6800 GT graphics card. I recall reading somewhere there were problems with some nVidia cards an SuSE 10. I really don't understand what I get from the nVidia proprietary software that is installed by the YaST script. Do I need the xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-100.i586.rpm? Would it make any difference if it were installed or not?
The reason I asked is that I just built OpenSceneGraph and when I ran it I got this message:
Warning: Producer::RenderSurface, under the X11 environment has tested the glXWaitVideoSyncSGI extension and found it to not be working properly. This does not necessarily mean that glXSwapBuffers will not block on VSYNC, but it does mean that the CPU bound application will not be able to synchronize with the graphics video retrace signal. Most operations will work fine.
Steven, I have one of those... the nvida driver adds some version of 3d control that most programs that do POVRAY ,or similar proggies , need.. you can use the one in the Yast online update menu ( somewhere near the bottom of the list ) and stuff just stops bitching.. I didn't go thru the build your own because stuff stopped bitchin at me when I used the one YOU had on offer.. <shrug> OF course YMMV ;-D -- j Morning, Evolution in action. only the grumpy will survive
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:51 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Steven, I have one of those... the nvida driver adds some version of 3d control that most programs that do POVRAY ,or similar proggies , need.. you can use the one in the Yast online update menu ( somewhere near the bottom of the list ) and stuff just stops bitching.. I didn't go thru the build your own because stuff stopped bitchin at me when I used the one YOU had on offer.. <shrug> OF course YMMV ;-D
I have the one from YaST installed. Or so I thought. In SaX2 the 3D option is grayed out. 3Ddiag gives this: $ 3Ddiag 3Ddiag version 0.728 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce 6800 GT (10de@0045)": 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 ... failed! ================================================================ 3D Hardware acceleration is not used. To use 3D Hardware acceleration please specify the entry Driver "nvidia" in the Section "Device" of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. ================================================================ Extensions ... done. Options ... done. Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration: GL/GLU ... done (package xorg-x11-Mesa) glut ... done (package freeglut) <shrug> Steven
On 11/16/05, Steven T. Hatton
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:51 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Steven, I have one of those... the nvida driver adds some version of 3d control that most programs that do POVRAY ,or similar proggies , need.. you can use the one in the Yast online update menu ( somewhere near the bottom of the list ) and stuff just stops bitching.. I didn't go thru the build your own because stuff stopped bitchin at me when I used the one YOU had on offer.. <shrug> OF course YMMV ;-D
I have the one from YaST installed. Or so I thought. In SaX2 the 3D option is grayed out. 3Ddiag gives this:
[snipped 3ddiag outout]
Download NVidias driver with OpenGL support for Linux from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html. It's
named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run and a script-based install
will setup the driver and libraries like libgl.so with 3D hardware
support.
\Steve
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Steve Graegert
Download NVidias driver with OpenGL support for Linux from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html. It's named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run and a script-based install will setup the driver and libraries like libgl.so with 3D hardware support.
\Steve
The latest nVidia driver version is 7676 and works great with my GeForce 6800 and SuSE 10.0. Go here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7676.html Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:18 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:51 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Steven, I have one of those... the nvida driver adds some version of 3d control that most programs that do POVRAY ,or similar proggies , need.. you can use the one in the Yast online update menu ( somewhere near the bottom of the list ) and stuff just stops bitching.. I didn't go thru the build your own because stuff stopped bitchin at me when I used the one YOU had on offer.. <shrug> OF course YMMV ;-D
I have the one from YaST installed. Or so I thought. In SaX2 the 3D option is grayed out. 3Ddiag gives this:
...
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.
OK, so I went to the nvidia site and found the diver for Linux. They had a link to the SuSE documentation on suse.de, which was written in English and mentioned the name of a script which I recognized from lookin in /usr/share/doc/nvidia. Stupid me, I looked /there/ to find the documentation, not the software; go figure. I followed the instructions, and they worked just fine. Now 3d graphics with OpenSceneGraph are fantastic, and I don't get that annoying error message. Steven
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