Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GLSlideshow and nvidia (I think) (no it is sis)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:38 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Sunday 16 July 2006 17:36, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 16:43 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 July 2006 16:24, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > > Since the upgrade to modular X my wife has not been able to view her
> > > > favourite screesaver (our cats.)  Whenever she runs the GLSlideshow
> > > > screensaver, she gets the following error:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Xlib extension GLX missing on display ":0.0"
> > > >
> > > > glslideshow display :0.0 does not support the GLX extension
> > >
> > > glxinfo
> > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > > dmesg
> > > eselect opengl list
> > > is usually the minimum information needed. Because the vendor recalled
> > > the magic crystal balls some  weeks ago.
> > >
> > > You don't have any nvidia stuff.
> > >
> > > You have sis integrated graphic. So you need sis support in the kernel.
> > >
> > > make menuconfig
> > >
> > > --->Device Drivers
> > >
> > > 	---->Character Devices
> > >
> > > Turn on AGP for sis chipsets. Turn on dri support. Install
> > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis
> > > install
> > > x11-misc/sisctrl
> > >
> > > use google. Search for sis integrated graphics and xorg. There are lots
> > > of examples (can't help here, don't have sis integrated graphics.
> >
> > I searched google for "sis integrated graphics, xorg" and it pulled up a
> > lot of information, but I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.  I
> > turned on /dev/agpgart for SIS and DRI in the kernel and rebooted with
> > it.  I installed xf86-video-sis and sisctrl.  sisctrl didn't work the
> > way I expected:
> >
> > catherine ~ # modprobe --list | grep 'sis'
> > /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.ko
> > /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.ko
> > catherine ~ # modprobe sata_sis
> > catherine ~ # modprobe sis900
> > catherine ~ # modprobe glx
>
> you don't modprobe glx. It is a Xorg module, not a kernel module.
>
> > FATAL: Module glx not found.
>
> that is correct.
>
> > catherine ~ # modprobe --list | grep 'glx'
>
> this too ;)
>
> > catherine ~ # sisctrl
> > SiS video adaptor not found
> > This program is for SiS 300, 315 and 330 series only
> > and requires the Xv (XVideo) extension.
>
> do you have libXv installed?
>
catherine ~ # emerge -pv libXv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/libXv-1.0.1  USE="-debug" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
catherine ~ #

> >
>
> >         Identifier  "Card0"
> >         Driver      "sis"
> >         VendorName  "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]"
> >         BoardName   "Unknown Board"
> >         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>
> did you create that entry or a config app?

Most of catherine's /etc/X11/xorg.conf was created by running X
-configure when I first installed Gentoo (a long time ago)
> do you have the dri-useflag set?
>
I didn't have the dri USE flag set, but I added it to /etc/make.conf and
ran emerge -pvND world.  None of the packages scheduled for rebuild used
the dri use flag, but I rebuilt them anyway.
> maybe this helps you:
> http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisvga.shtml
>
> (the 6XX chipsets and the 7XX chipsets are more or less identical. 6=intel,
> 7=amd)

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