Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia setup instructions?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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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