On 01/15/2012 09:34 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Sunday 15 January 2012 10:58:35 Mark LaPierre wrote:
My Xorg.0.log file says:
[snip]
[ 64601.469] GeForce 6 (NV4x) [ 64601.474] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV4b"
I have no xorg.conf file.
I have a GeForce 7 (G7x) chip set on my video card. The NOUVEAU driver is misidentifying my chip set.
No, it is not. The GeForce 7 family is the NV40 family, and your specific card appears to be NV4B. Refer to
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNamesfor details.
I suspect that this is a major part of the reason why video acceleration is not working.
I doubt. For the general review about what is supported by Nouveau for the NV40 family (and other families), refer to the Nouveau feature matrix, at
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrixHowever, I am not sure how much of the current driver's functionality is actually present in the kernel module that comes with CentOS. You didn't specify which version of CentOS you use, but at best (CentOS 6.x) the kernel is from Fedora 12 timeframe. I am not familiar if all the features and bugfixes that have been introduced to Nouveau since that time are actually backported to the CentOS kernel. Not sure if it is even possible. YMMV.
If you absolutely need 3D acceleration, maybe take a look at the nvidia proprietary drivers --- you can find CentOS-packaged yum-installable rpm's in elrepo (or was it rpmforge?)...
HTH, :-) Marko
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I enabled both epel and rpmforge.
[root@mushroom yum.repos.d]# yum install nvidia* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.aol.com * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu * extras: mirror.cs.vt.edu * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * updates: centos.aol.com Setting up Install Process No package nvidia* available. Error: Nothing to do [root@mushroom yum.repos.d]#
Do you know what the name of the nvidia driver rpm might be?
[root@mushroom yum.repos.d]# uname -a Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Thu Dec 22 18:50:52 GMT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@mushroom yum.repos.d]#
CentOS 6.2