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#1 2007-12-04 03:47:30

Jimage
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Registered: 2007-10-13
Posts: 25

Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

Howdy, folks. I'm having a few problems with my Xfce setup, hopefully somebody can help me out. This is the second computer I've installed Arch on, and it seems to be causing me many more troubles than the previous one.

Firstly, while messing around trying to fix a previous problem, which I'll get to in a moment, I've somehow stopped the legacy nvidia-96xx drivers from working with Xfce. I'm getting an error message along the lines of:

Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.

This occurred after re-syncing the driver via pacman. The version is 96.43.01.

The key sections of my xorg.conf look like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "All"
    BoardName      "All"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "backingstore" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I've tried reinstalling the driver and rebooting a couple of times, but neither of these measures have helped. Any ideas?

Now, the previous issue I faced was jerky 2D performance. Window dragging was very laggy and unpleasant even in a standard Xfce environment without any XGL manager running. How might I fix this?

On my 1000+ server with a GeForce2, the graphics work nice and smooth, even with Beryl running. This machine is something like a 2200+ with a Geforce4, so something's definitely up with my settings somewhere.

Finally, there is another minor issue: when I installed Beryl, at first the menu entries showed up as they should. After rebooting, they disappeared. Anybody know why this is? They worked fine on the other machine.

Thanks for your attention!

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#2 2007-12-04 10:14:58

byte
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From: Düsseldorf (DE)
Registered: 2006-05-01
Posts: 2,046

Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

Is your system up to date? -> pacman -Syu


1000

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#3 2007-12-05 05:18:03

Jimage
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Registered: 2007-10-13
Posts: 25

Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

Thanks. A system-wide update has fixed it, including the missing menu shortcuts. I'll keep that in mind next time.

However, the lagging graphics still occurs. Supertux works great, but moving windows seems to remain jolty.

xorg.conf is still the same as above.

Last edited by Jimage (2007-12-05 05:18:45)

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#4 2007-12-05 08:26:14

jacko
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 840

Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

do u have the double buffer being loaded in modules section of xorg? Have u used nvidia-xconfigure to automatically update the xorg file?

Section "Module"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "dbe"    #<-- double buffer module
    Load           "record"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Last edited by jacko (2007-12-05 08:27:15)

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#5 2007-12-05 08:44:49

Jimage
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Registered: 2007-10-13
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Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

jacko wrote:

do u have the double buffer being loaded in modules section of xorg?

Yup. DBE looks to be present.

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "record"
EndSection
jacko wrote:

Have u used nvidia-xconfigure to automatically update the xorg file?

Yes to that too. After the update, I ran nvidia-xconfigure and then modified the file manually as necessary.

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#6 2007-12-05 10:13:57

jacko
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Registered: 2007-11-23
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Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

Have u tried the 76xx drivers? geforce 4 isn't all that new of a card and 96xx drivers aren't that old the 100xx has only been out a few months.

maybe thats an idea.

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#7 2007-12-05 13:52:11

zenlord
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Registered: 2006-05-24
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Re: Xfce4 and nvidia-96xx hassles

jacko wrote:

Have u tried the 76xx drivers? geforce 4 isn't all that new of a card and 96xx drivers aren't that old the 100xx has only been out a few months.

I myself use the 96xx drivers with my GF2 without any troubles. Right now I'm not at home - I'll see if I can post my config in this thread when I get home.

Zl.

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