[ATrpms-users] F9 user testers needed

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>
wrote:

> "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?
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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
>

Thanks. It seems to be working fine.

3D acceleration is important for 3D opengl applications,
because a lot of operations can be executed directly
by hardware, in modern Nivida cards.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/OpenGL

This is useful for games, desktop effects, etc ...

This is the main reason we use nvidia proprietary drivers,
and not the slooooow nv driver.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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