Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present.. No XVideo
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:58:54AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:03:19 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> Some comments on the log...
>
> ***
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> Module class: X.Org Server Extension
> (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.09 Thu Jun 5 00:07:40 PDT 2008
> (II) Loading extension GLX
> **
>
> It seems
Ten years I've been using X every day and apart from a few silly tricks
learned through experience.. I'm just about as ignorant as I was when
I started off.
> loading the GLX module using some part of the nvidia closed
> drivers... how is that possible? :-?
Broken environment..? :-)
> Now look mine:
>
> ***
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
> (==) AIGLX enabled
> (II) Loading extension GLX
> ***
>
> Here is loading the Xorg stock GLX extension.
I _assumed_ I might be able to conjure up some trick or other to switch
between the nvidia and nv drivers.. maybe not quite on the fly.. but at
least without having to reboot.. as a result, you caught me right in the
middle of testing possible solutions and I had not removed the nvidia
packages.
As Sven rightly observed, what I had failed to notice was that since
I had no GLX at all loaded in my Xserver.. OpenGL programs did not work
any more.. But as Sven also remarked, this is a separate problem.
> ...
>
> And there is something more in your log it caught my attention:
>
> ***
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (--) Chipset Unknown NVIDIA chip found
> ***
>
> And now compare to mine:
>
> ***
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (--) Chipset Quadro FX 1500 found
> ***
This log is lenny's.. and my card is unsupported by either ‘nv’ or
‘nvidia’, so that would appear to be consistent.
> I still don't see why are you so reluctant to "test" the closed source
> driver. Just to test, for seeing how it goes and if it solves nothing
> then at least you can decide the next step with confidence :-)
Not at all. I tested it under squeeze where my card is supported and the
newer nvidia driver addresses the ‘black console’ issue. On the other
hand, I was experiencing extreme slowness in programs such as icesweasel
and a completely broken keyboard with stuff like the down arrow key
mapped to Mode_Switch (!) .. try to do a dpkg-reconfigure that brings up
ncurses screens with a broken down arrow.
At that point, I decided that it made better sense to reinstall squeeze
at some point in the future and start again from scratch.
But since the card is working fine in ubuntu 10.10, I am not really
worried about getting this to work now.
At this point, I am more concerned as to what completely borked my
out-of-the-box squeeze environment.
> You said your card was "unsupported" and you maybe right.
>
> - Lenny ships "nvidia-glx" 173.14.09 and your card is not listed:
>
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/appendix-a.html
>
> - But Squeeze ships "nvidia-glx" 195.36.31 and your card appears
> there:
>
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.36.31/README/supportedchips.html
> So you can test the closed driver in squeeze and see how it goes. If
> all is fine you can then install the latest driver available from
> nvidia site in lenny (it will require driver compilation).
Thanks, but since within a few months I will have switched to squeeze
for my activities.. it's probably not worth it. After all, the only
thing (apart from DRI) that's not working in lenny, is that I have to
use the ‘x11’ video driver in mplayer.. and as a result, I cannot watch
the news full-screen. I can live with that.
cj
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