On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > > <SNIP> > > >> >> 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. > > The Gentoo page I am following makes no mention of 'consolekit': > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > It is installed but it's not set in rc-update to run at all. Should > this be boot or default? > > dragonfly ~ # eix -I consolekit > [I] sys-auth/consolekit > Available versions: 0.2.3 0.2.10 ~0.2.10-r1 ~0.3.0 ~0.3.0-r1 > {debug doc pam policykit} > Installed versions: 0.2.10(02:17:12 PM 04/20/2009)(pam -debug) > Homepage: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit Description: > Framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions and seats. > > dragonfly ~ # > > Thanks, > Mark
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