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/CodeNames > > for 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/FeatureMatrix > > However, 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I enabled both epel and rpmforge. [root at 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 at mushroom yum.repos.d]# Do you know what the name of the nvidia driver rpm might be? [root at 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 at mushroom yum.repos.d]# CentOS 6.2 -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004