shucks am sorry.. been attending to a few zillion posts on DRI and 3d acceleration all evening and its really late here. my apologies.Originally Posted by senectus
shucks am sorry.. been attending to a few zillion posts on DRI and 3d acceleration all evening and its really late here. my apologies.Originally Posted by senectus
make sure you have the lines I put in blue in the exampleOriginally Posted by senectus
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
#Load "dri"
#Load “GLcore”
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
I installed the drivers using your guide(great guide btw).
And I've run into my first problem, maybe you can help? When i check screensavers, none of the OpenGL ones work. I just get a black screen, the small preview says "No Preview Available". Something tells me i'm not going to be able to run neverwinter nights once i install it... The screensavers worked before.
Maybe not worth mentioning is, that in my xorg.conf file there was no Load "GLcore" line and Load "glx" was already present.
It's weird, I've never had such a problem. I don't use games in Ubuntu but OpenGL screensavers woked well on my computer.Originally Posted by Fyrzen
I can try to run the installer again and to say yes when it asks you about OpenGL32bit compatibility libraries (expecially if you have Ubuntu 32)
Tell me if it works
After messing arround with new nvidia drivers for about three hours I finaly got them working... but I'm not so happy, cause performance isn't as it should be. I get:
And I had to disable Composite extention in xorg.conf.Code:izmaelis@boxzilla:~$ glxgears 6761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1352.200 FPS 7931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1586.200 FPS 7942 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1588.400 FPS 7866 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1573.200 FPS 7801 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1560.200 FPS 7688 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1537.600 FPS 7827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1565.400 FPS 7716 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1543.200 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Now, how can I rollback to standart nvidia driver from ubuntu repos? I remember them working better than 7676 driver that I have now.
EDIT: I have GeForce FX5600XT 128Mb
Last edited by izmaelis; August 23rd, 2005 at 04:45 PM.
Set xorg.conf to either "vesa" or "nv"Originally Posted by izmaelis
then follow the method in the guide to launch the installer but this time you will have to launch it in this way:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7676-pkg2.run --uninstall
Of course use the name of the file you downloaded (this is an example of my installer)
Then you can follow Ubuntu guide and install the driver you like most.
I haven't tried reinstalling the driver yet, yes i am running ubuntu 32 but i didn't get a prompt for libraries. I thought it wasn't worth mentioning that i did not add the line Device "Nvidia", since i saw it was "nv" I figured "what's the difference right?"
Meanwhile i ran NWN from the terminal and it didn't start, it repeated the error "GLX missing on display 0:0" "Failed to initialize graphics". So i reinstalled the GLX packages from Synaptic. To no avail... If there's a difference between nv and Nvidia i might as well remove glx again and reinstall the drivers and be done with it, so is this the root of my problem?
nv is the nvidia driver that Ubuntu has packaged. Its old and ineffective. the whole point of this HowTo is to replace that. u need to change the driver name to "nvidia" if u want to use the most current Nvidia drivers that u have installed.Originally Posted by Fyrzen
It's important to follow EVERY step in my guide. Remove nvidia-glx in Synaptic and follow my guide again.Originally Posted by Fyrzen
I hope it works now
Fix't.
Thanks for your help, t'was my mistake.
Screensavers actualy work with a decent fps now, thanks again for this guide!
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