6:56 p.m.
Hello,
I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
work in Severn?
10 p.m.
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:56, Mark Guzzo wrote:
Hello,
I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
work in Severn?
I'm experiencing this as well. In the past, RSS and the NVIDIA drivers
have worked fine together, but on Severn I'm getting the same complaint
about XFree86-DRI.
Phil
8:49 a.m.
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:52, Mark Guzzo wrote:
Yep,
This is strange.
Last night I noticed that the RSS was listed in the System Tools -> More
system Tools menu. When I click on them there they work GREAT!!!
As far as NVIDIA goes, I'll stick with them. I like the fact they openly
support Linux, even it they have yet to open their drivers.
Which they most likely won't do. FWIW, ATI openly supports Linux and
(open) XFree86 driver development (even if they have their own binary
only high performance drivers as well).
Just my opinion,
Nils
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7:38 p.m.
Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
(drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
those same drivers.
So who will be doing a lot of work at very inconvenient moments in order
to have Nvidia drivers? You will.
I only have one Nvidia card. All my others are ATI Radeons.
Bob Cochran
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:56, Mark Guzzo wrote:
Hello,
I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
work in Severn?
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5:40 a.m.
You do not actually have to recompile the whole driver. If you have the
kernel source you run the nvidia-installer --kernel-name="your full
kernel name here" and its will make the kernel interface for you. You
have options to actually just compile the kernel interface and put it in
the run file so that you do not have to do it again.
Installing nvidia drivers is usually the fastest drivers installation on
Linux. Soundblaster/alsa. now that was hard.
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 02:38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
(drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
those same drivers.
So who will be doing a lot of work at very inconvenient moments in order
to have Nvidia drivers? You will.
I only have one Nvidia card. All my others are ATI Radeons.
Bob Cochran
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:56, Mark Guzzo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
> http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
> Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
>
> I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
> XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
> NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
> work in Severn?
>
>
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8:14 p.m.
There is a kernel interface and source code is provided for that. This
is taken from Nvidia's own installation instructions.
Source:
NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set README & Installation Guide
Last Updated: $Date: 2003/07/16 $
Most Recent Driver: 1.0-4496
KERNEL INTERFACES
The NVIDIA kernel module has a kernel interface layer which must be
compiled specifically for the configuration and version of the kernel
you are running. NVIDIA distributes the source code to this kernel
interface layer, as well as a precompiled version for many of the kernels
distributed by some popular distributions.
....
Bob
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:54, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:45:38AM +0200, Peter Backlund wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02.38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
> > (drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
> > the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
> > those same drivers.
> You mean recompile the drivers, right?
You can't actually recompile the drivers; you don't have source code to
them.
7:59 p.m.
I long ago forgot the specifics of Nvidia's instructions for getting
their proprietary drivers to work. I can't remember if the drivers have
to be compiled right into bzImage, or if they can be treated as loadable
modules. I only did it the one time. When my first kernel update rolled
around and I couldn't get video output all of a sudden, I realized that
I had to recompile the kernel again to include the drivers.
Now I'm a lot smarter. I stay with ATI. No special work needed, as
another man once remarked. And hey I love my Really Slick Screensavers!
Bob Cochran
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:45, Peter Backlund wrote:
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02.38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
> (drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
> the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
> those same drivers.
You mean recompile the drivers, right?
> > I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
> > http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
> > Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
> > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
Make sure you have write access to /dev/nvidia*. What's the output of
glxinfo |grep direct
?
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7:54 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:45:38AM +0200, Peter Backlund wrote:
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02.38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
> (drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
> the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
> those same drivers.
You mean recompile the drivers, right?
You can't actually recompile the drivers; you don't have source code to
them.
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7:45 p.m.
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02.38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
(drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
those same drivers.
You mean recompile the drivers, right?
> I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
> http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
> Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
Make sure you have write access to /dev/nvidia*. What's the output of
glxinfo |grep direct
?
/Peter
3:51 p.m.
New subject: Really Slick Screensavers (Was: REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS)
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:00, Phillip Compton wrote:
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:56, Mark Guzzo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
> http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
> Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
>
> I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
> XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
> NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
> work in Severn?
I'm experiencing this as well. In the past, RSS and the NVIDIA drivers
have worked fine together, but on Severn I'm getting the same complaint
about XFree86-DRI.
Phil
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I've got this missing DRI too, but the first time a screen saver start
using dri it work, the second put the message about Xlib: extension...
missing.
Don't know how to make this work
J-F
9:52 a.m.
Yep,
This is strange.
Last night I noticed that the RSS was listed in the System Tools -> More
system Tools menu. When I click on them there they work GREAT!!!
As far as NVIDIA goes, I'll stick with them. I like the fact they openly
support Linux, even it they have yet to open their drivers.
Mark
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:00, Phillip Compton wrote:
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:56, Mark Guzzo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed the REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS from
> http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html When I goto the Screensaver
> Preferences to try on out, I get this error:
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0"
>
> I'm using the newest drivers from NVIDIA and I removed the DRI from
> XF86Config. On the gurulabs site they said that you would need the
> NVIDIA drivers for these to work. Has anyone be able to get these to
> work in Severn?
I'm experiencing this as well. In the past, RSS and the NVIDIA drivers
have worked fine together, but on Severn I'm getting the same complaint
about XFree86-DRI.
Phil
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11:23 p.m.
I see that I got involved in programming religion again, always a big
mistake. The specific faith here is Church of Video Drivers. And it's my
own darn fault.
Taking sides in the [name your programming religions here] factions is
asking for a bloodied nose.
Sorry!
Bob
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:41, Joe wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
>I long ago forgot the specifics of Nvidia's instructions for getting
>their proprietary drivers to work. I can't remember if the drivers have
>to be compiled right into bzImage, or if they can be treated as loadable
>modules. I only did it the one time. When my first kernel update rolled
>around and I couldn't get video output all of a sudden, I realized that
>I had to recompile the kernel again to include the drivers.
>
Nah, that's FUD -
nvidia-installer --update
does the trick, and in 30 seconds or so you're good, if you just answer
the questions.
>
>Now I'm a lot smarter. I stay with ATI. No special work needed, as
>another man once remarked. And hey I love my Really Slick Screensavers!
>
It's great that we have the choice - I prefer nvidia cards at present,
as they are trying a lot harder to win our business. I really tried to
do it the gnu way, but nvidia just blows away the competition, and I
couldn't see hurting myself to keep away from nvidia drivers - whether
they are GPL'd or not, they are by far the best video drivers available
for linux.
If ATI cards work for you that's great - but my last experience was a
bit of a disaster, and I hear it's a minefield trying to get the
specific models that will actually support hardware accelerated 3D under
linux, and run without stability problems.
Joe
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9:41 p.m.
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I long ago forgot the specifics of Nvidia's instructions for
getting
their proprietary drivers to work. I can't remember if the drivers have
to be compiled right into bzImage, or if they can be treated as loadable
modules. I only did it the one time. When my first kernel update rolled
around and I couldn't get video output all of a sudden, I realized that
I had to recompile the kernel again to include the drivers.
Nah, that's FUD -
nvidia-installer --update
does the trick, and in 30 seconds or so you're good, if you just answer
the questions.
Now I'm a lot smarter. I stay with ATI. No special work needed, as
another man once remarked. And hey I love my Really Slick Screensavers!
It's great that we have the choice - I prefer nvidia cards at present,
as they are trying a lot harder to win our business. I really tried to
do it the gnu way, but nvidia just blows away the competition, and I
couldn't see hurting myself to keep away from nvidia drivers - whether
they are GPL'd or not, they are by far the best video drivers available
for linux.
If ATI cards work for you that's great - but my last experience was a
bit of a disaster, and I hear it's a minefield trying to get the
specific models that will actually support hardware accelerated 3D under
linux, and run without stability problems.
Joe
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