[Nottingham] Nvidia, GLX and Direct Rendering Problems.

[Dalkus]

Robert Hart wrote:

>You also need to make sure X is configured to use the right driver, and
>that you have the nvidia kernel module installed.
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I took a closer look at my xorg.conf and tried changing the "nv" setting 
to "nvidia" which resulted in X dying after reloading and displaying a 
message explaining that X could not be started because of a 
configuration error. Changing the setting back to nv fixed this.

Relevent packages that I have installed:

nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-dev, nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-settings

One package listed in my apt repositories that isn't installed: 
nvidia-kernel-source. It had a pretty big dependency that I didn't want 
to isntall unless I had to, should I install this too?

>You might need to compile the kernel module yourself. 
>
>Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
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My xorg.conf:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands:
#
#   cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
#   sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
 >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "unix/:7100"            # local font server
    # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "bitmap"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "ddc"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "extmod"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "int10"
    Load    "record"
    Load    "type1"
    Load    "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout"    "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"        "ImPS/2"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
    Driver        "nv"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
    VideoRam    386596
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        1
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        4
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        8
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        15
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode    0666
EndSection


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Thanks