On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brandon Vargo <brandon.va...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> Is this the right page to follow for up-to-date installation > >> >> instructions for a 6200-based card? > >> >> > >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > >> >> > >> >> If it is then is it at all out of date in terms of xorg.conf setup > >> >> for the newer xorg-server/hald setup, or is it OK? > >> > > >> > I have the PCI version of the 6200, and I can confirm that 180.29 > >> > (stable for my arch) work great as well as the vesa framebuffer. I had > >> > problems with the uvesa framebuffer a few kernels back, and never got > >> > it to work, though I haven't tried since. > >> > > >> > The rest of the nvidia guide looks good, though I do not use the same > >> > options as the guide for my xorg.conf configuration. For example, I've > >> > never had to set the VideoRam option in the device section, and set > >> > things such as NoLogo, RenderAccel, etc in the screen section. Take a > >> > look at [1] for all the options. That's the amd64 version, though it > >> > should be similar if not the same for other architectures. > >> > > >> > I don't use hal, so I cannot comment on that. > >> > > >> > I would recommend using the nvidia-xconfig utility to configure > >> > another xorg.conf once you get a basic X display running. It works > >> > pretty well, particularly regarding 3D settings and multiple monitors, > >> > so it's a good starting point from which to customize. > >> > > >> > [1]: > >> > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.29/README/appen > >> >dix -b.html > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > > >> > Brandon Vargo > >> > >> Thanks Brandon. I'm up in X now on the 6200 AGP so it's functional. > >> glxgears seems sort of slow at about 230FPS but I probably don't have > >> things set up right yet. > >> > >> I had questions about the setup instructions as I went through it. > >> > >> 1) Do you completely drop out DRI support in the kernel? Seems this > >> document says not to load the dri driver in xconf and it wasn't shown > >> in the kernel options so I took it out. Maybe that should be enabled? > > > > no. Nvidia uses its own stuff. No need for dri in kernel. > > Without DRI in the kernel I got an error message when running glxinfo > > | grep direct. > > Once I put nvidia in xorg.conf it loaded automatically. That seems > inconsistent with this new push to use hald and no xorg.conf.
you need to have consolekit running before X starts to have working direct rendering.
