[ubuntu-za] ubuntu-za Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8
christo
coetzewc at telkomsa.net
Thu May 6 15:16:09 BST 2010
Hi This is my glx info
I had to install Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities (mesa-glx) from
synaptec to be able to
have glxinfo this was not installed by default on my system.
NOTE:
server glx version string: 1.2
client glx version string: 1.4 and their various extensions,
I have no idea what this means??
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_OML_sync_control,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Tnks Christo
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> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 21:41:56 +0200
> From: Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Video card & hard drive question
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi Ian
>
> Here is a rough guide about seperate home partitions:
> http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/HomePartition
>
> <http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/HomePartition>Cheers
>
> hg
>
> On 5 May 2010 15:33, Ian Whitfield <whitfield at federalsaints.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Thanks for nice Get-Together last Sat - pity I had to leave early. Also
> > thanks to Corrie for 10.04 disks.
> >
> > I have two questions.........
> >
> > 1) My Linux Box has a Gigabyte GV-N55128D Video Card that uses the
> > Nvidia FX5500 chipset. I have never been able to get thev"fancy"
> > graphics to work and hope to get it working now with 10.04. Googling for
> > drivers I find a lot of reports of problems with this chipset. SO what
> > should I do? Give it a try or replace the card?
> >
> > If the first option - can somebody advise me how and if the second
> > opti0n what card is recommended?
> >
> > 2) My computer has two physical hard drives as I want to keep 'System'
> > on the first drive and '/home' on the second. When I installed 9.10 I
> > followed some advise on how to do this and wound up with two 'homes'!!
> >
> > Can somebody give me step-by-step instructions on how to do this please?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > PS - Has the sound been fixed in 10.04? I lost all sound in 9.10 and
> > hope to get it back now!
> >
> > Ian Whitfield.
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> From: Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Nvidia Restrcited Driver Issue... Crash
> (NVIDIA 6500)
> To: coetzewc at telkomsa.net, Ubuntu South African Local Community
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> On 5 May 2010 20:52, christo <coetzewc at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys some assistance or ideas?
> >
> > Installed a fresh copy of 10.04 32bit
> >
> > My Desktop with NVIDIA 6500 pci-e card crashes or X crashes after I
> > installed the Nvidia Restrcited Driver from ubuntu repository. The mouse
> > still moves around though but the machine is unresponsive to any clicking,
> > the PC locks up with black screen only. Seems to also affect the
> > Screen-saver. The NVIDIA drivers shows screensaver nicely but crashes my
> > system. When I use the Plymouth driver my relolution sucks especially in
> > browsing, text seems "jittery" for a lack of a better word.
> >
> > I* *Can't find anything related to this on the web so went on a mission
> > and reported it to another thread on the ubuntu forum with similar issues.
> >
> > Oh and can't drop into terminal ALT F1 with NVIDIA drivers does not ask for
> > password and prompts login again but with Plymouth drivers that works fine.
> > This my initial issues and have had the following responce and did as
> > explained. below:
> >
> > *From "dino99"*
> > if you can open "synaptic" (system admin synaptic), tell me if, in the repo
> > tab, you have some third party repo or ppa activated, in case uncheck
> > them.(of course, all the repo need to be with the same distro and release)
> > You should only have: nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases,
> > nvidia-common and nvidia-settings installed.
> >
> > now into console:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install -f
> > sudo dpkg --configure -a
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth
> > sudo update-initramfs -u
> > sudo grub-mkconfig && update-grub
> > so with synaptic: first remove/purge the nvidia packages installed (right
> > click) then install the ones i've given in the previous post
> >
> > *From me:*
> > My settings in Synaptic was / is:
> > enabled Canonical-supported OSS (main)
> > enabled Community-maintained OS (universe)
> > enabled Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
> > enamled SW restricted blah blah (multiverse)
> >
> > under Other Software
> > enabled only Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> >
> > Updates
> > enabled (lucid-security)
> > enabled (lucid-updates)
> >
> > Nothing else.
> >
> > On my quest
> > removed all nvidia stuff with synaptic and installed
> > nvidia-current
> > nvidia-settings
> > have to install nvidia-173-modaliases
> > have to install nvidia-96-modaliases
> > nvidia-common then
> >
> > Did the console commands, and rebuilt.
> > Then used System Administration hardware to enable NVIDIA driver again.
> > That is the correct wat to enable it, yes??
> >
> > So I Started a FTP download from local repositry (ftp://ftp.saix.net 10.04
> > server 32) and X crashed after some screensaver activity, I'm sure. I was
> > able to get into console ALT F1 this time but it seems if my path was
> > "environmental variable's" was lost, had to cd into filesystem to see what I
> > could run. I could not execute "top" to check what's holding up the
> > processor but it seems as if the cpu was working overtime 100% utilisation
> > because I could see after hard reset over heating / high heat from the bios
> > sensor. This usually, tells me cpu worked to hard a minute before my hard
> > reset. This is more or less what my inital symptoms were and still is.
> >
> > As I said with the Kernel (plymouth) driver, all seems stable but
> > resolution is crap when browsing and screensaver is very slow.
> >
> > Can GLX have something to do with this I red somewhere to revert to glx
> > 1.2, current version is 1.4??? does this make sense or ring any bells? I
> > don't know how to down grade this but could find out I'm sure. I'm trying my
> > best to understand all this and I'm not a programmer so stabbing in the dark
> > here?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Christo
> >
> This is what I get with an intel video card after running glxinfo.
> >>>>
> hilton at oogway:~$ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> server glx extensions:
> GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
> GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
> GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
> GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
> GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> client glx extensions:
> GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
> GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
> GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
> GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
> GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
> GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> GLX version: 1.2
> GLX extensions:
> >>>>
> So it seems that the glx client is version 1.2 but the server is 1.4.
> Do you get the same ?
>
> Cheers
>
> hg
>
> >
> >
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> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 00:23:27 +0200
> From: Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Nvidia Restrcited Driver Issue... Crash
> (NVIDIA 6500)
> To: coetzewc at telkomsa.net, Ubuntu South African Local Community
> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Sorry its the other way round.
>
> On 6 May 2010 00:22, Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5 May 2010 20:52, christo <coetzewc at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys some assistance or ideas?
> >>
> >> Installed a fresh copy of 10.04 32bit
> >>
> >> My Desktop with NVIDIA 6500 pci-e card crashes or X crashes after I
> >> installed the Nvidia Restrcited Driver from ubuntu repository. The mouse
> >> still moves around though but the machine is unresponsive to any clicking,
> >> the PC locks up with black screen only. Seems to also affect the
> >> Screen-saver. The NVIDIA drivers shows screensaver nicely but crashes my
> >> system. When I use the Plymouth driver my relolution sucks especially in
> >> browsing, text seems "jittery" for a lack of a better word.
> >>
> >> I* *Can't find anything related to this on the web so went on a mission
> >> and reported it to another thread on the ubuntu forum with similar issues.
> >>
> >> Oh and can't drop into terminal ALT F1 with NVIDIA drivers does not ask
> >> for password and prompts login again but with Plymouth drivers that works
> >> fine.
> >> This my initial issues and have had the following responce and did as
> >> explained. below:
> >>
> >> *From "dino99"*
> >> if you can open "synaptic" (system admin synaptic), tell me if, in the
> >> repo tab, you have some third party repo or ppa activated, in case uncheck
> >> them.(of course, all the repo need to be with the same distro and release)
> >> You should only have: nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases,
> >> nvidia-common and nvidia-settings installed.
> >>
> >> now into console:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get update
> >> sudo apt-get install -f
> >> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> >> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
> >> sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth
> >> sudo update-initramfs -u
> >> sudo grub-mkconfig && update-grub
> >> so with synaptic: first remove/purge the nvidia packages installed (right
> >> click) then install the ones i've given in the previous post
> >>
> >> *From me:*
> >> My settings in Synaptic was / is:
> >> enabled Canonical-supported OSS (main)
> >> enabled Community-maintained OS (universe)
> >> enabled Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
> >> enamled SW restricted blah blah (multiverse)
> >>
> >> under Other Software
> >> enabled only Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> >>
> >> Updates
> >> enabled (lucid-security)
> >> enabled (lucid-updates)
> >>
> >> Nothing else.
> >>
> >> On my quest
> >> removed all nvidia stuff with synaptic and installed
> >> nvidia-current
> >> nvidia-settings
> >> have to install nvidia-173-modaliases
> >> have to install nvidia-96-modaliases
> >> nvidia-common then
> >>
> >> Did the console commands, and rebuilt.
> >> Then used System Administration hardware to enable NVIDIA driver again.
> >> That is the correct wat to enable it, yes??
> >>
> >> So I Started a FTP download from local repositry (ftp://ftp.saix.net10.04 server 32) and X crashed after some screensaver activity, I'm sure. I
> >> was able to get into console ALT F1 this time but it seems if my path was
> >> "environmental variable's" was lost, had to cd into filesystem to see what I
> >> could run. I could not execute "top" to check what's holding up the
> >> processor but it seems as if the cpu was working overtime 100% utilisation
> >> because I could see after hard reset over heating / high heat from the bios
> >> sensor. This usually, tells me cpu worked to hard a minute before my hard
> >> reset. This is more or less what my inital symptoms were and still is.
> >>
> >> As I said with the Kernel (plymouth) driver, all seems stable but
> >> resolution is crap when browsing and screensaver is very slow.
> >>
> >> Can GLX have something to do with this I red somewhere to revert to glx
> >> 1.2, current version is 1.4??? does this make sense or ring any bells? I
> >> don't know how to down grade this but could find out I'm sure. I'm trying my
> >> best to understand all this and I'm not a programmer so stabbing in the dark
> >> here?
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >> Christo
> >>
> > This is what I get with an intel video card after running glxinfo.
> > >>>>
> > hilton at oogway:~$ glxinfo
> > name of display: :0.0
> > display: :0 screen: 0
> > direct rendering: Yes
> > server glx vendor string: SGI
> > server glx version string: 1.2
> > server glx extensions:
> > GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> > GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
> > GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
> > GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
> > GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
> > GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> > client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> > client glx version string: 1.4
> > client glx extensions:
> > GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> > GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
> > GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
> > GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
> > GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
> > GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
> > GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> > GLX version: 1.2
> > GLX extensions:
> > >>>>
> > So it seems that the glx client is version 1.2 but the server is 1.4.
> > Do you get the same ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > hg
> >
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Hilton Gibson
> > Systems Administrator
> > JSG Library Room 1025D
> > Stellenbosch University
> > Private Bag X5036
> > Stellenbosch
> > 7599
> > South Africa
> >
> > Cell: +27 846 464 758
> > Email: hgibson__AT__sun.ac.za
> >
>
>
>
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> Stellenbosch University
> Private Bag X5036
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> 7599
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