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Author: | graysky [ Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:04 am ] |
Post subject: | OpenGL broken in R5.5 for my hardware |
R5.5 installed the 96.43.05 driver and everything works EXCEPT OpenGL on my machine (haven't tested xvmc either). If I set my painter to OpenGL and restart mythfrontend, I get a black screen. I've been using the Qt painter fine, but I'd prefer to use OpenGL. My board has an integrated GF4 and I know even back in R5F27, in order to get the OpenGL stuff to work properly, I had to get the old driver from R5F1 this wiki page. My R5.5 box works in ever other respect, and I'm hesitant to try these steps on it without some guidance from folks who know. Can I follow the same steps to get that driver off the R5F1 iso for R5.5 or will it not work due to differences in the kernel, other stuff that's over my head? Failing that, there is an IA32 driver on the nvidia website that has the same version number (1.0-8776) that I ran successfully under R5F1. If I got it, would it just install correctly (using the # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run) or would that too have problems and roach my system? Here are the steps from that wiki page from my own notes installing R5F27: Code: Copy the iso to /myth/tmp
# cd /myth/tmp # mkdir theCD # mkdir theCloopImage # modprobe cloop # mount /myth/tmp/KnoppMythR5F1.iso ./theCD -t iso9660 -o loop,ro # mount ./theCD/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ./theCloopImage -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop0 # ls theCloopImage/ bin dev home knoppmyth lib mnt proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz boot etc initrd knoppmyth-sata media opt root srv tmp var # tar -cf - -C theCloopImage/usr/src/debs/ nvidia | tar -xvf - nvidia/ nvidia/common/ nvidia/common/nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1_all.deb nvidia/latest/ nvidia/latest/install.sh nvidia/latest/nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb nvidia/latest/nvidia-glx_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb nvidia/latest/nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-chw-13_1.0.8776-1+2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb nvidia/legacy/ nvidia/legacy/install-legacy.sh nvidia/legacy/nvidia-glx-legacy-dev_1.0.7184-2_i386.deb nvidia/legacy/nvidia-glx-legacy_1.0.7184-2_i386.deb nvidia/legacy/nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-chw-13_1.0.7184-2+2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom_i386.deb # ls -l nvidia/ total 12 drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 18 2006 common drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 19 2006 latest drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Nov 19 2006 legacy # init 1 # pkill xinit # cd /myth/tmp/nvidia/latest/ # dpkg -i --force-conflicts --force-overwrite *.deb You should get the following errors: Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-glx_1.0.8776-1_i386.deb nvidia-glx-dev Then run: # dpkg -P nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-chw-13 # dpkg -P nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx # dpkg -i --force-conflicts --force-overwrite *.deb |
Author: | graysky [ Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:53 am ] |
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Update... neither of the above methods work. I did a quick test on my test R5.5 hardrive (old 80 gig drive I use to test dangerous stuff like this on). The driver from the nvidia website wouldn't install (failed to compile a kernel driver). Code: No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you like the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel from the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? To which I said yes. Code: No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel. To which I said OK Code: ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. I followed the wiki page instructions and everything seems to work until I rebooted. Now it's giving the c7 respawning too fast error. Guess I'm out of luck for OpenGL under R5.5 with my aged hardware. |
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