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On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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>> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> <SNIP> |
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>> >> >> Thanks Brandon. I'm up in X now on the 6200 AGP so it's functional. |
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>> >> >> glxgears seems sort of slow at about 230FPS but I probably don't have |
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>> >> >> things set up right yet. |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> I had questions about the setup instructions as I went through it. |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> 1) Do you completely drop out DRI support in the kernel? Seems this |
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>> >> >> document says not to load the dri driver in xconf and it wasn't shown |
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>> >> >> in the kernel options so I took it out. Maybe that should be enabled? |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> > no. Nvidia uses its own stuff. No need for dri in kernel. |
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>> >> Without DRI in the kernel I got an error message when running glxinfo |
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>> >> | grep direct. |
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>> >> Once I put nvidia in xorg.conf it loaded automatically. That seems |
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>> >> inconsistent with this new push to use hald and no xorg.conf. |
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>> > |
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>> > you need to have consolekit running before X starts to have working |
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>> > direct rendering. |
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>> The Gentoo page I am following makes no mention of 'consolekit': |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml |
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>> It is installed but it's not set in rc-update to run at all. Should |
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>> this be boot or default? |
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>> dragonfly ~ # eix -I consolekit |
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>> [I] sys-auth/consolekit |
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>> Available versions: 0.2.3 0.2.10 ~0.2.10-r1 ~0.3.0 ~0.3.0-r1 |
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>> {debug doc pam policykit} |
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>> Installed versions: 0.2.10(02:17:12 PM 04/20/2009)(pam -debug) |
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>> Homepage: |
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>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit Description: |
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>> Framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions and seats. |
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>> dragonfly ~ # |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Mark |
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> default. And it is a recent development. |
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Thanks. glxgears now does 2500FPS instead of 230 so that's a nice improvement. |
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MythTV once again works after the Intel driver got messed up forcing |
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me to switch to a newer card. |
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WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) once again high after a 3 week low point |
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in her years on Gentoo. |
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I appreciate your help, |
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Mark |
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