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I finally got my video card working and am using the generic drivers, since I was never able to build the kernel interface for the latest drivers for some reason... I'm still not sure.
Glxgears is running waaay slower than I'd expect and I keep getting this "fatal IO error 104", which I've read is the result of a problem in hw.
Code:
$ glxgears
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
324 frames in 5.0 seconds = 64.800 FPS
280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 56.000 FPS
280 frames in 6.0 seconds = 46.667 FPS
280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 56.000 FPS
280 frames in 6.0 seconds = 46.667 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 3201 requests (30 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Code:
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
Would someone be willing to help me install the latest drivers..? I've posted my question to NVNews but no one's replied for 3 days.
Nvidia-installer successfully installs the kernel module, but then it encounters an error:
Code:
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely
because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' RPM installed. If you
know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the
kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
-> Kernel module load error: ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko: couldn't find the kernel
version the module was compiled for
-> Kernel messages:
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.5
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22
06:44:39 PST 2005
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:0d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 42000 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
hw_random: misc device register failed
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
ppdev0: registered pardevice
ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
ppdev1: claim the port first
ppdev2: claim the port first
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
i810_rng hardware driver 0.9.8 loaded
Location: Moriarty, NM, USA about 100 yards form Rattle Snake Coutry
Distribution: Slackware , Ubuntu
Posts: 269
Rep:
Looks like the installer is complaining that the kernel sources do not match the kernel currently running.
At CLI enter "uname -r" will give you the kernel that is currently running.
Then look in /usr/src/ you should see linux-???????
Make sure that it matches your running kernel and you have a link to the folder like the example below:
My kernel is 2.4.27-2 and the kernel sources is 2.4.27-12, which I installed with apt-get. Does the number following the hyphen matter or not? This is something I've never been sure of. I never linked it to linux so I was just using the --kernel-source-path instead.
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