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From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-hardened] Re: NVidia setup instructions?
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:49:42
Message-Id: 4A01B162.8010001@gmail.com
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
4 >>
5 >> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
7 >> <SNIP>
8 >>
9 >>>>>> Thanks Brandon. I'm up in X now on the 6200 AGP so it's
10 >>>>>> functional. glxgears seems sort of slow at about 230FPS but
11 >>>>>> I probably don't have things set up right yet.
12 >>>>>>
13 >>>>>> I had questions about the setup instructions as I went
14 >>>>>> through it.
15 >>>>>>
16 >>>>>> 1) Do you completely drop out DRI support in the kernel?
17 >>>>>> Seems this document says not to load the dri driver in
18 >>>>>> xconf and it wasn't shown in the kernel options so I took
19 >>>>>> it out. Maybe that should be enabled?
20 >>>>> no. Nvidia uses its own stuff. No need for dri in kernel.
21 >>>> Without DRI in the kernel I got an error message when running
22 >>>> glxinfo
23 >>>>
24 >>>> | grep direct.
25 >>>>
26 >>>> Once I put nvidia in xorg.conf it loaded automatically. That
27 >>>> seems inconsistent with this new push to use hald and no
28 >>>> xorg.conf.
29 >>> you need to have consolekit running before X starts to have
30 >>> working direct rendering.
31 >> The Gentoo page I am following makes no mention of 'consolekit':
32 >>
33 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
34 >>
35 >> It is installed but it's not set in rc-update to run at all. Should
36 >> this be boot or default?
37 >>
38 >> dragonfly ~ # eix -I consolekit [I] sys-auth/consolekit Available
39 >> versions: 0.2.3 0.2.10 ~0.2.10-r1 ~0.3.0 ~0.3.0-r1 {debug doc pam
40 >> policykit} Installed versions: 0.2.10(02:17:12 PM 04/20/2009)(pam
41 >> -debug) Homepage:
42 >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit Description:
43 >> Framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions and
44 >> seats.
45 >>
46 >> dragonfly ~ #
47 >>
48 >> Thanks, Mark
49 >
50 > default. And it is a recent development.
51 >
52
53 FWICT, NVidia 180.51 appears to be working on this box without the
54 consolekit.
55
56 "# glxinfo | grep direct
57 direct rendering: Yes
58 GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,"
59
60 nvidia is masked on my hardened overlay/AMD64; on a lark tried the ".run"
61 script available at the nvidia site.
62
63 HTH