[64studio-users] disabling 3d acceleration

[Yoav Avitzour]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, joseph brower wrote:

That was the fisrt thing I tried. The xserver is starting with vesa but is 
extremely slow. (It takes a few seconds to a move a terminal window from 
one end of the screen to the other...)

> Try changing where it says "nv" to say "vesa"
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joseph Brower
> 
> On 6/29/07, Yoav Avitzour <yoav at physics.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, joseph brower wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... Interestingly enough, your suggestion was indeed able to prevent
> > the error message, but the xserver is still not coming up when I use the
> > nv driver. The screen just turns black, and I don't get anything.
> > Xorg.o.log shows no errors, and I'm starting to think that the AIGLX error
> > was not the thing that was preventing it from starting at all, though I
> > have no idea what does.
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the help,
> > Yoav
> >
> >
> > > You should be able to add this to your xorg file and disable aiglx.
> > >
> > > Section "ServerFlags"
> > >         Option  "AIGLX" "off"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Extensions"
> > >         Option "Composite" "Disable"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Let me know if that helps,
> > >
> > > joseph Brower
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/29/07, Yoav Avitzour <yoav at physics.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I just installed 64Studio and first let me say that I am very impressed with this distribution. I was able to run with a latency of less than 3ms with minimal tweaking and with no xruns to speak of. Very impressive!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > That said, I have been struggling with some problems with the display driver. After installation, the display would not start, giving an error:
> > > >
> > > > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I realize that the nv driver does not support 3D acceleration, but since I have no use for 3d acceleration (the box use is for audio only), I would be happy to know if there's a way to make X start without causing this error.  (I tried to disable the DRI and GLX extensions in xorg.conf but it didn't help - disabling DRI just led to an error (EE) AIGLX: DRI module not loaded.)
> > > >
> > > > In any case, I upgraded to testing, ran tasksel --new-install, and installed nvidia-glx. Running tasksel turned out to be a very fortunate action, since it disables the testing repository. This is fortunate because the nvidia kernel that was installed is the 2.6.18 kernel (I think it is from the etch repo), which worked fine. Later when I realized that the testing repo was disabled, and I tried to update the kernel, I ended up with the 2.6.21 nvidia supported kernel and modules, with which the xserver started but only to completely freeze the computer after a period of 5-30 seconds of operation. I rolled back to the 2.6.18 kernel and the system is running fine, but I would still like to be able to just use the nv module and give up the 3D acceleration.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   So, to summarize:
> > > >
> > > > 1. nvidia-glx with 2.6.21 kernel causes complete freeze after the display is
> > > >
> > > >     started (Nvidia card - GeForce 7300)
> > > >
> > > > 2. How can I disable the 3D acceleration requirement and work with the nv
> > > >
> > > >     driver?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Yoav
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
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