> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Winter > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:59 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] A few issues > > Hail and well met, Mark > Greetings and salutations to you as well, honored sir! > > 1) Is this the right place for kernel internals questions? > > I have no idea...but I'll try to answer your questions anyway. If I get > scolded, so be it. > I'll do that in another thread. > > 2) I noticed this morning that my GLMatrix screensaver is not > > working any more. > > Open up a terminal window while X is running and type: > > /usr/bin/glxinfo | grep direct > > In a kind world, the response will be "direct rendering: Yes". If you > don't get that response then possibly your driver is b0rked again or > there's a problem in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Perhaps you could > run /usr/sbin/nvidia-xconfig. > I'll try this when I get home and have a minute. FTR, here at work, where the screensavers work just fine, I get this: [mhr at mhullrichter ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect (I also noticed that glxinfo is /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo....) > > 3) Now that I mention it, I'm still having trouble running the > > display configuration settings applet (it comes and asks for the root > > password, then disappears). What's up with that? This happens here at > > work and also at home.... > > I think the command you can use in the terminal is > /usr/sbin/nvidia-settings. It might give you an error report. > Again, later when I get home. Thanks. mhr