Is there a DEFINATIVE way to know if nvidia 3D is ON?
Hardware >Graphics card & monitor gives "3D Disables" and when I ask it to enable it, a box pops open that says that "you must use YOU to get and install the nvidia drivers" and then it gives details how to RE-install them since last time. But when I do this, and then check the 3D capabilities via YOU it shows the same negative results. Loops like
Hi Folks, Since doing updates to, and fresh installs to 9.2 on systems w/ nvidia cards, I have started to doubt whether 3D Accl is really on, after d/l'ing the nvidia drivers via YOU. Is there a really difinative way to know if the nvidia drivers are really installed?? Whenever I let YOU get, and install them, and after a re-boot, YOU >YAST that forever? I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON? PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says Direct Rendering It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders, "Direct Rendering = No PeterB
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders,
"Direct Rendering = No
PeterB
Just playing around with the suggestion above. As a normal user it worked but I did notice it liked lower case. glxinfo | grep "rendering" direct rendering: Yes -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders, YOU says: fetchnvicia.sh downloaded and fetchnvidia.sh "installed" But it never says it ACTUALLY ran it!!!??? PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:17, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders,
YOU says: fetchnvicia.sh downloaded
and fetchnvidia.sh "installed"
But it never says it ACTUALLY ran it!!!???
In a previous mail today you pointed out that there was a new kernel in YOU. Did you install it? If you did you need to run YOU again and get the NVIDIA driver When you do, don't bother with sax2, just look at /etc/X11/XF86Config, look for a line in Section "Device" that says Driver "nv" and change it to Driver "nvidia" That should be all you need, then log out, log back in, and try glxinfo again. Incidentally, when you log out, you should see the nvidia logo flash by as X resets
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:25 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:17, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders,
YOU says: fetchnvicia.sh downloaded
and fetchnvidia.sh "installed"
But it never says it ACTUALLY ran it!!!???
In a previous mail today you pointed out that there was a new kernel in YOU. Did you install it? If you did you need to run YOU again and get the NVIDIA driver
Yes, and yes it did the YOU get nvidia update again. All before I wrote here.
When you do, don't bother with sax2, just look at /etc/X11/XF86Config, look for a line in Section "Device" that says
Driver "nv"
and change it to
Driver "nvidia"
That should be all you need, then log out, log back in, and try glxinfo again. Incidentally, when you log out, you should see the nvidia logo flash by as X resets
I'll do that now PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:25 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:17, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders,
YOU says: fetchnvicia.sh downloaded
and fetchnvidia.sh "installed"
But it never says it ACTUALLY ran it!!!???
In a previous mail today you pointed out that there was a new kernel in YOU. Did you install it? If you did you need to run YOU again and get the NVIDIA driver
When you do, don't bother with sax2, just look at /etc/X11/XF86Config, look for a line in Section "Device" that says
Driver "nv"
and change it to
Driver "nvidia"
That should be all you need, then log out, log back in, and try glxinfo again. Incidentally, when you log out, you should see the nvidia logo flash by as X resets
xorg.conf or XF86.conf?? and todays date. the xorg.cong has it as "nvidia" but the XF82.conf has "nv" in it PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:36, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
xorg.conf or XF86.conf?? and todays date.
the xorg.cong has it as "nvidia" but the XF82.conf has "nv" in it
That's a bit odd, one should be a symlink to the other, so they should be identical Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see which it uses grep "Using config file" /var/log/Xorg.0.log try copying xorg.conf to XF86Config
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:25 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:17, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
Hi Anders,
YOU says: fetchnvicia.sh downloaded
and fetchnvidia.sh "installed"
But it never says it ACTUALLY ran it!!!???
In a previous mail today you pointed out that there was a new kernel in YOU. Did you install it? If you did you need to run YOU again and get the NVIDIA driver
When you do, don't bother with sax2, just look at /etc/X11/XF86Config, look for a line in Section "Device" that says
Driver "nv"
and change it to
Driver "nvidia"
That should be all you need, then log out, log back in, and try glxinfo again. Incidentally, when you log out, you should see the nvidia logo flash by as X resets Hi Anders,
Never seen the 'nvidia logo' upon X startup. Thats whats been nagging the back of my mind! Changing the conf files (all of then) from 'nv' to 'nvidia' didn't work either. I'm running the fetch...sh script right now. It is paused at: linux:/var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts # ./fetchnvidia.sh note: No proxy is used. Please set the environment variable "http_proxy" note: to your favorite proxy, if you want to use a proxy for the download. note: note: bash: export http_proxy="http://proxy.provider.de:3128/" note: tcsh: setenv http_proxy "http://proxy.provider.de:3128/" NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run: Checking ... failed ... need to refetch Fetching ... " hmmm wonder if nvidia is offline?
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
HI Anders, I looked at the fetchnvidia.sh file and found: /usr/X11R6/bin/usr/X11R6/bin/xsload -vendor | grep -q "nvidia:NVIDIA Corporation" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "NVIDIA driver already installed!" exit 0 fi" and ran the xload -vendor part. it found: "nvidia:X.Org Foundation" Hmmmmm, maybe I try actually running fetchnvidia.sh and see what happens. PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:28 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
HI Anders,
I looked at the fetchnvidia.sh file and found:
/usr/X11R6/bin/usr/X11R6/bin/xsload -vendor | grep -q "nvidia:NVIDIA Corporation" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "NVIDIA driver already installed!" exit 0
fi"
and ran the xload -vendor part. it found:
"nvidia:X.Org Foundation"
Hmmmmm, maybe I try actually running fetchnvidia.sh and see what happens.
PeterB
Browsed to nvidia corp d/l drivers site and their ***6629.run files starts the d/l at full speed then stalls. PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:28 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
HI Anders,
I looked at the fetchnvidia.sh file and found:
/usr/X11R6/bin/usr/X11R6/bin/xsload -vendor | grep -q "nvidia:NVIDIA Corporation" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "NVIDIA driver already installed!" exit 0
fi"
and ran the xload -vendor part. it found:
"nvidia:X.Org Foundation"
Hmmmmm, maybe I try actually running fetchnvidia.sh and see what happens. Hi Anders,
NVIDIA driver site is now completing the d/l so the bert thing is to wait till later. Thanks for your great help. I you want a Letter of Recommendation" I would be happy to write one. You are a great Systems Engineer" in my experiance; 18yrs in IBM as Systems Eng on mainframes. Good luck in the land of my ancestors!! PeterB
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 5:06 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:28 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
Run "glxinfo" as your regular user in a shell, and look for the line that says
Direct Rendering
It should say "Yes" if things are working. In the output you should also see various references to "NVIDIA Corporation"
HI Anders,
I looked at the fetchnvidia.sh file and found:
/usr/X11R6/bin/usr/X11R6/bin/xsload -vendor | grep -q "nvidia:NVIDIA Corporation" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "NVIDIA driver already installed!" exit 0
fi"
and ran the xload -vendor part. it found:
"nvidia:X.Org Foundation"
Hmmmmm, maybe I try actually running fetchnvidia.sh and see what happens.
Hi, OK, got the NVIDIA*****6629.run script, made it executable, ran it and got a bit of a scare when it said my new kernel was made with 'rivafb' module, and that their new drivers wouldn't run if that module was loaded. But no worry, it built itself ok, and when I did: sax2 -m 0=nvidia I first saw that "NVIDIA Logo" flash, then sax opened. set it up like before and sax now reports that "3D Enabled". The desktop looks nicer and also subtly different too. Now we have an issue about YOU accepting the "nvidia driver" upgrade running and NOT issuing any warning that it is NOT installed or running. Best of Luck Anders, PeterB
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 21:59, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi Folks,
Since doing updates to, and fresh installs to 9.2 on systems w/ nvidia cards, I have started to doubt whether 3D Accl is really on, after d/l'ing the nvidia drivers via YOU.
Is there a really difinative way to know if the nvidia drivers are really installed??
Whenever I let YOU get, and install them, and after a re-boot, YOU >YAST
Hardware >Graphics card & monitor gives "3D Disables" and when I ask
it to enable it, a box pops open that says that "you must use YOU to get and install the nvidia drivers" and then it gives details how to RE-install them since last time. But when I do this, and then check the 3D capabilities via YOU it shows the same negative results. Loops like that forever?
I have seen many times here that "Never mind, 3D is REALLY ON, but the system lies, trust me". So, is there a sure-fire way to verify that nvidia 3D is really ON?
PeterB
for a kick off have a look in /etc/X11/XF86Config or xorg.conf whicever oyu have and chech the dirver in use if it is nv NO 3D for shure if it says nvidia 3D should be on then go check what the rest tell you ... Also if you used the yast install or the fetchnvidia.sh job i found it failed BIG TIME and wound up having to complete remove all of the suse nvidia bits from the keernel tree ie the installed nvidia.ko the /lib/modules/precompiled in fact any reference to nvidia.o or .ko the run the dowloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run following the instructions on the Nvidia site .. I know there are people out there that dont agree with me but what the hell i have been running suse for too may years now to count and nvidia cards all the time apart from one diamond heap and have always managed to get nvidia 3d to behave . Pete . -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..
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