OpenGL glxgears demo program

[Chaman Singh Verma]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Mark Williams <mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

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> Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Just a complete WAG here....
> >>
> >> Are there a settings in the BIOS relating to your video?
> >>
> >> I remember having issues with Intel i810.  In the BIOS there were two
> >> different amounts of system ram it could use, and two sizes of (I'm
> >> sure I have the terminology wrong) AGP cache or window.  Turning both
> >> of them to their higher setting resolved the issue.
> >>
> >> Figured it couldn't hurt to at least look.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
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> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > As per your instructions, I issued the command:
> >
> >                       lspci | grep Display
> >
> > and nothing came on the screen. By issuing just
> > lspci, there are 10-12 line information came, but
> > that may not be important for you, that is why I
> > am attaching here.
> >
>
> It strikes me that you have no driver loaded for your card;
> your lshw has an almost-blank configuration line, mine says
>         *-display
>             description: VGA compatible controller
>              product: NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT]
>             vendor: nVidia Corporation
>             physical id: 0
>             bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
>             version: a2
>             width: 64 bits
>             clock: 33MHz
>             capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
>             configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 module=nvidia
> so I can then do:
> mark at dragon:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
> nvidia               8858052  34
> i2c_core               28544  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
> and see that my driver is loaded.
>
> Having a different graphic setup, I don't know what driver you should
> have - but you don't... so you're getting some poor default setting.
>
> What does the GUI System>Administration>Hardware drivers look like?
> If someone can tell you what you _should_ have, modprobe xxxx may be the
> answer - I'd have a check in synaptic for 'intel' as well. I note that
> the first item in mine is '915 resolution, a fix for certain resolutions
> in Intel [945] chipsets'. also xorg-xserver-video-intel should be
> present, I would imagine; Even I appear to have that!
>
> > About the BIOS issue, although I couldn't
> > understand it.
>
>
> If you re-boot and press F2/del during the RAM test phase, and look
> around your BIOS, there may be a setting that disables video some; I
> suspect this to be unlikely though.
>
> Mark
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Hello,

No, I couldn't see anything disabled. I just observed that
the Video RAM is 128MB.

Also, as suggested by one of you that I should look at glxinfo
pages, that I did, but nothing helped me in getting "Direct
Rendering ON".

With regards to all of you.
Chaman Singh Verma
Poona, India
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