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what video card do u have....hopefully an NVIDIA witht here drivers installed... cause those are the only ones i ahve experience with....
make sure you ahve nvidia's drivers...you can get them from there site.
if its an nvidia and you have there drivers go to a prompt and type 'lsmod' to make sure the nvidia.o is loaded.
when u start X flip back to the terminal that u started X from so u can read the console output. if the GLX module is loading right, you should see a line that says it was loaded, if not there is a problem with the XF86Config file or your drivers.
in the XF86Config file make sure that GLX is uncommented and 'dri' is commented out.
If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
the relevant Device section and replace the line:
Heh, I had same prob for 7 months!! No 3D acceleration, I was irked for the longest time.........in your XF86config file type this in the Screens Section
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
here's what mine looks like........
Code:
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce"
Monitor "Gateway EV 700"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
ok first....your driver is "nv" so no you are not using nvidias drivers, so thats where you have to start evohack...there is a sticky thread in the general fourm on how to go about getting the nvidia drivers and installing them...
as of "320mb" what does IgnoreEDID have to do with 3d acceleration, the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) is for the monitor, and the other thing is, is if you have installed the nvidia drivers and they are working then you will have 3d acceleration, not ifs ands or buts about it.
oh and you dont' want dri loaded nor glcore, as you will see in that sticky thread in the newbie fourm(i said general in my last post, that was my bad )...you are going to be removing these options from your config when your setting up the nvidia drivers.
actually here is the thread MasterC lays it out in a step by step manner..
d00d, your config says:
----->>> DRIVER "NV" <<<-------
if you were using the nvidia drivers it would say:
----->>> DRIVER "NVIDIA" <<<------
and in the --> Section "Module" <-- in your XF86Config file :
YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE:
Load "glcore"
Load "dri"
AND YOU SHOULD HAVE:
Load "glx"
....and whatever else i didn't mention should also be there.
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Oh my god. Read carefully what DrOzz is saying...:
----->>> DRIVER "NV" <<<-------
if you were using the nvidia drivers it would say:
----->>> DRIVER "NVIDIA" <<<------
and in the --> Section "Module" <-- in your XF86Config file :
YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE:
Load "glcore"
Load "dri"
AND YOU SHOULD HAVE:
Load "glx"
....and whatever else i didn't mention should also be there.
If you don't switch driver nv to nvidia, you can keep installing as much as you want It won't use Nivida drivers...
if you had just followed my post you would have been okay.
if its a nvidia card then:
If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
the relevant Device section and replace the line:
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