[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia+Xorg not allowing DRI.

[Korthrun]

On 7/15/06, Korthrun <korthrun@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/06, Korthrun <korthrun@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Heyyas,
> >
> >      I'm running:
> > Xorg 7.0-r1
> > nvidia-kernel 1.0.8762
> > nvidia-glx 1.0.8762
> >
> >      I've followed the guide at
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml with the following
> > exceptions. I'm using a kernel.org kernel not a portage kernel, and I
> > didn't make the "changes" regarding framebuffers because I don't
> > intend to use one.That whole bit is disabled in my kernel.
> >
> >     X starts up fine and looks great, I get decent FPS from glxgears.
> > While following the above guide I get to this point "Code Listing
> > 2.19: Checking the direct rendering status" and end up with this:
> >
> > glxinfo | grep direct
> > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > direct rendering: No
> >
> >     My Xorg.conf follows:
> > ######Start xorg.conf
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> >         Screen      0  "Screen[0]" 0 0
> >         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Files"
> >         RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
> >         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> >         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
> >         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
> >         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
> >         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
> >         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> >         Load  "glx"
> >         Load  "extmod"
> >         Load  "xtrap"
> >         Load  "record"
> >         Load  "dbe"
> > #       Load  "dri"
> >         Load  "freetype"
> >         Load  "type1"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >         Driver      "kbd"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >         Driver      "mouse"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >         Option      "Buttons" "7"
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >         Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
> >         Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
> >         Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
> >         Option      "DPMS" "true"
> >         HorizSync 30-70
> >         VertRefresh 50-180
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Device[0]"
> >         Driver      "nvidia"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier "Screen[0]"
> >         Device     "Device[0]"
> >         Monitor    "Monitor[0]"
> >         DefaultDepth     24
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     24
> >                 Modes "1280x1024"
> >         EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "DRI"
> >         Group "video"
> >         Mode 0660
> > EndSection
> >
> > ######End xorg.conf
> >
> >      I've tried it both with and without this last stanza regarding
> > DRI. I tossed it in there for giggles since I needed it with my ATI
> > card. One thing I haven't ventured to yet is recompilin xorg. When I
> > compiled it I did have VIDEO_CARDS set to radeon. Will this effect
> > xorg working with nvidia cards? What would the proper VIDEO_CARDS
> > setting be for a geforce 6800?
> >
> >     Any suggestions/comments are very welcome. Thanks muchly.,
> >
> > Korf
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> Well, I've now narrowed it down to permissions. I didn't install the
> drivers off of nvidias site as they are the same version. Perusing the
> nvidia linux forum I came across a post that made me want to do
> glxgears again. I was root on that console due to just having emerged
> something, and DRI works fine. I'm going to poke some stuff with chmod
> and restart, but if any know what might be the difference that allows
> root to do it I'd love to hear it.
>
> K
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I restarted X and I can see DRI fine on a non privileged user. The
change was adding some of the options from device section of the
xorg.conf posted by Hemmann, Volker Armin

Thanks everyone,

K

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