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I can't seem to get 3D acceleration of any sort with the onboard graphics on an nForce2 motherboard.
I installed XFCE, the Nvidia drivers and the nForce drivers as per the wiki, and while the desktop is fine, I get nothing from xscreensaver or any 3D games. I've added RenderAccel to my xorg.conf, thinking that might help, but nothing seems to do the trick.
Can anyone offer a suggestion? Here's my xorg.conf, as it stands now.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Princeton VL1918"
HorizSync 31.5 - 64.3
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
EndSection
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Standard VGA"
# Driver "vga"
# VendorName "Unknown"
# BoardName "Unknown"
# EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX"
Monitor "Princeton VL1918"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
I thought DRI was a no-no with Nvidia cards?
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It's possible for it not to work if you installed nvidia driver before installing latest kernels, which the simple workaround is to reinstall the driver.
I don't have that particular chipset, but theoretically it should work fine with drivers:
nvidia
But...
Did you try:
nvidia-legacy
And yes, "dri" is a no-no with legacy nvidia chipsets. Which yours shouldn't be, as it's based on the same core as the Geforce4 MX4000. However, it may be necessary NOT to load dri since it's a neutered onboard chip...but like I said, I don't have this particular configuration. In that case, it may force you to use nvidia-legacy.
Confused yet? Good. Me too.
pacman -Sy nvidia-legacy
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