[ATrpms-users] F9 user testers needed

[Anthony Messina]

"John Welch" <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know how F9 is behaving with Atrpms packages.
>>
>> Mainly:
>>
>> 1) is nividia 173 working with 3D acceleration?

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> As far as the nvidia 173 drivers from the ATrpms repo, I had more
> serious issues.  I have been using the 173 version drivers from
> freshrpms and they have been working great (3D acceleration included).
>  However, I would prefer to stick with ATrpms, which is what I have
> always used in the past, so this was a good chance to test them out.
> Unfortunately I didn't get very far.  I uninstalled the package from
> freshrpms, and then used yum to install the packages from ATrpms.
> When I rebooted my system X would not start at all.  Below is the tail
> end of the Xorg.0.log file from the failed attempt:
> 
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found
> 
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
> 
> Even when I uninstalled the nvidia packages and went back to the
> freshrpms package I was still having this problem.  I found that the
> libwfb.so was missing from my system.  I had to reinstall the
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg package in order to get this file back, and then
> X started working again.  I don't know if the nvidia packages from
> ATrpms were completely the cause of this issue because I had tried
> several things with the nvidia drivers when I first installed F9 on
> this system, which was before the working drivers came out.  In any
> case, I think I will stick with the freshrpms package, at least for
> the short term.
> 
> Other than that, in general the packages from the ATrpms repo for F9
> are working fine (mythtv, vlc, xmms, etc.)
> 
> John

using x86_64, i get

(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.3
(II) Loading sub module "wfb"
(II) LoadModule: "wfb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libwfb.so
(II) Module wfb: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 7.1.99.2, module version = 1.0.0

and everything (MythTV frontend with TwinView: LCD/Projector) works fine,
though i do get:

(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture

but i'm not sure what that means for 3D
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