[SOLVED] Cannot turn on hardware acceleration on Nvidia MX 440

raxbg · 2012-01-30 18:35:50

Hi, Yesterday I decided to revive an old pc and use it for multimedia. I plan to use it just for watching tv and movies, play music this kind of stuff, but I encountered a problem. Since I want to use xbmc I need to enable hardware acceleration on my AGP (at least thats what xbmc says). I'm using the nouveau drivers and also installed nouveau_dri package, made a file 20-nvidia.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and in this file I put this ->
Section "Device"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "RenderAccell" "1"
EndSection

but xbmc keeps telling me that I need to have a device supporting hardware acceleration. Any suggestions?

This is linked with https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134903 read both for the solution

Last edited by raxbg (2012-02-03 18:38:12)

Gusar · 2012-01-30 18:37:47

Why exactly did you make that file? And did you try without it?

raxbg · 2012-01-30 18:40:06

Yes, I made it because xbmc doesn't want to start and I was looking for a way to enable hardware acceleration... I don't know how to check if this works though, but xbmc trows the same error.

Gusar · 2012-01-30 18:51:03

Is your user in the video group? Post the output of

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Also /var/log/Xorg.0.log

raxbg · 2012-01-30 19:01:25

hm what u suggested returned nothing, i tried only glxinfo and got:
Name of isplay: :0:0
Segmentation fault

As for Xorg.0.log I dont see any EE mesages only II

Gusar · 2012-01-30 19:05:31

Ok, that segfault is weird. Something is definitely not right on your machine, but with the available info I can't know what. The problem is, I don't know what further info to ask for.

Post the full Xorg.0.log anyway, maybe it'll help.

raxbg · 2012-01-30 20:25:42

http://www.pastebin.com/3SA1stMC this is Xorg.0.log sorry for posting so late

litemotiv · 2012-01-30 22:16:14

The MX 480 is a really, really old card. Are you sure that it's even supposed to work?

Gusar · 2012-01-30 22:26:15

litemotiv wrote:

The MX 480 is a really, really old card. Are you sure that it's even supposed to work?

In theory it is. The card is not suitable for the gallium infrastructure which handles new cards, but the nouveau devs wrote a classic mesa driver for it, called nouveau_vieux (a little joke there ). raxbg's log shows this nouveau_vieux driver being loaded. It is possible though that this driver isn't maintained as well as the gallium driver is, so the theory might not transfer into practice.

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raxbg · 2012-01-31 18:50:35

So I've done everything correctly and there is nothing more i can do about it? So sad...

Gusar · 2012-01-31 19:01:08

Contact the nouveau developers. They have a mailing list and an IRC channel.

Then there might be the possibility of using the proprietary nvidia driver. Post the output of "lspci -nn" so we'll know which card exactly you have.

zenlord · 2012-02-01 17:32:07

I don't think the official nvidia driver supports those old cards anymore. Maybe you should try finding a card that is more recent (and supported) on ebay...

Gusar · 2012-02-01 17:50:18

zenlord wrote:

I don't think the official nvidia driver supports those old cards anymore.

If it's a Geforce 4 (and I think it is, though there's no 480 in Nvidia's list, only 460/440/420, that's why I want lspci -nn output), then it is supported by the 96xx driver. You only have to downgrade X to 1.10.4 for now.

But yeah, buying a Geforce 6 card off ebay might be a better solution, those are supported by the mainline driver. Or, for a bit more money, this is very nice http://geizhals.at/685133 <- GT520 PCI !! Perfect for xbmc because of VDPAU.

raxbg · 2012-02-01 18:56:16

Oh my bad its 440 and I have read that the 96xx driver is not supported by X 1.1 If I downgrade as u suggest will I encounter any problem? I mean is it going to break something like my DE. I am using gnome 3. Thanks

raxbg · 2012-02-01 18:56:55

oh and how do I donwngrade? which packet exactly?

Gusar · 2012-02-01 19:00:07

xorg-server is the one you downgrade. And possibly xf86-input-evdev and any other xf86-input-* driver you might use. As for how, search the wiki. Arch Rollback Machine has old packages.

raxbg · 2012-02-01 19:18:13

Thank you. I'm going to try now

raxbg · 2012-02-01 20:13:48

Hm I cannot find a way to install nvidia-96xx it says it depends on kernel 2.6.35 any suggestions now?

Gusar · 2012-02-01 20:19:49

Use this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32910

raxbg · 2012-02-01 20:48:20

ok video got working but no input, I cannot move the mouse nor use the keyboard... I have installe xf86-input-evdev but removed mouse and keyboard should I install them back and what versions?

Gusar · 2012-02-01 21:12:44

evdev is the correct one to use. Which version did you install, the latest one or an old one? You could try compiling it from source, using ABS.

raxbg · 2012-02-01 21:23:35

I installed 2.5.0-1 from arm, then I installed xf86-input mouse and keyboard again from arm but its not working. I ran nvidia-xconfig though and there in xorg.conf in inputdevice section there is a mouse and a keyboard, and drivers they are told to use are mouse and kbd. I tried changing theese to evdev but with no luck...

Gusar · 2012-02-01 21:34:55

Doooon't run nvidia-xconfig. Remove the xorg.conf it created, it's outdated. You don't need an xorg.conf. And you don't need the kbd and mouse drivers, you only need evdev. I suggest compiling from source using ABS.

raxbg · 2012-02-01 21:55:18

ok I build it using ABS and now its the latest version of evdev and it says it is in conflict with xorg-server... Is this because xorg-server is old? Seems like it is not going to work haha

raxbg · 2012-02-01 21:56:02

I forgot to mention that because of the conflict I cannot install evdev. It wants to remove xorg-server

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