Re: nVidia users help needed
>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Romer <gromer@hmc.edu> writes:
Geoffrey> I have the same problem. Here's a quote from the
Geoffrey> xscreensaver FAQ:
Geoffrey> ---snip--- Try editing your .xscreensaver file and
Geoffrey> changing the memoryLimit setting to 0.
Thanks for the suggestion. Will try it ASAP.
Geoffrey> However, apparently certain OpenGL libraries (notably
Geoffrey> nVidia) do something strange that makes them appear to
Geoffrey> allocate more than 128M of memory for every OpenGL
Geoffrey> program! Consequently, those programs die on startup
Geoffrey> because they aren't able to allocate memory.
Weird. I thought using hardware acceleration would decrease it, not
increase it...
Geoffrey> ---snip--- I can reproduce this here, but only when
Geoffrey> using nVidia's GLX libraries. Unfortunately, nVidia
Geoffrey> can't play nice with everyone else who's writing GLX
Geoffrey> implementations for Linux. So, if you really want things
Geoffrey> to work, you'll either have to convince nVidia to do
Geoffrey> something right, or download the source and compile your
Geoffrey> own. Sorry. ---pins---
Geoffrey> Sigh... The joys of closed-source drivers...
Is the any chance in a future of an open source driver, ie.
independent of nVidia's implementation?
All so, some thing else I found strange: The kernel module is still
getting used despite the fact I have rebooted and loaded X with the
standard nv driver. What loads the kernel module?
NVdriver 658880 2 (autoclean)
Geoffrey> I don't recognize the name, but I'll bet anything that
Geoffrey> has something to do with 3Dfx video cards (Voodoo and
Geoffrey> its successors), in which case you certainly don't need
Geoffrey> it unless you have a 3Dfx card installed. Where did you
Geoffrey> see that?
pluto:~# dpkg -s device3dfx-source
Package: device3dfx-source
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 68
Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@debian.org>
Source: device3dfx
Version: 2000.11.02-0.1
Depends: make, m4, debhelper
Recommends: kernel-package
Description: Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.x kernels
This package is the source for the 3Dfx device driver to allow access
to 3Dfx boards without the user having root privileges. It should
work on 2.0/2.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 kernels and set the MTRR settings
correctly. It should also work with SMP kernels (2.1/2.2/2.3/2.4).
>>>>> "johanc" == johanc <johanc@ida.his.se> writes:
johanc> I have experienced the same problem on a RIVATNT2
johanc> delivered on a Dell station, except I had green/black
johanc> stripes.
johanc> If I don't remember wrong I think I found the solution in
johanc> the README's from nvidia.
In hindsight, I didn't reboot after disabling AGP.
Perhaps that was the problem.
johanc> Johan, who got rid of it but can't remember how.
Do you have any of these in your XF86Config-4 file?
Option "NvAgp" "0" ... disables AGP support
Option "NvAgp" "1" ... use NVAGP, if possible
Option "NvAgp" "2" ... use AGPGART, if possible
I think 1 is the default.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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